university of beirut. and then again, i ran into him when i was teaching at columbia, my first job after i got my phd at the university of chicago. he was doing his phd at columbia university. i have known ashraf ghani for well over 40 years. brian: you finished high school where? mr. khalilzad: i finished high school in ceres, california, in 1967. then i went back to afghanistan to get my bacculareate. brian: your next degree? mr. khalilzad: from the university of beirut. a bachelors. brian: what year did you graduate from there? mr. khalilzad: 1972. i got a masters also from the american university in beirut in 1974. brian: and then what? mr. khalilzad: a phd from the university of chicago in 1979. brian: this man has tremendous connections. you will recognize him. this is just a clip. it is the only one we could find what you look like and sounded like. it goes back to 1980. he is deceased now. [video clip] >> there are some parts of the world where a law -- in asia, in central america, and so on. but there are some parts of the world where we have similar common interests as in the persian gulf. they are more direct landmass

university of michigan. as a professor of philosophy and later to the university of chicago, which is where he met adams. philosophers, -- these are the foundational theorists of the school of pragmatism. was a group of talented women at whole house quickly became a force for industrial reform, for protection and education of children and advocacy for women's rights. support for the labor unions. was also a center of arts and culture. nearly every well-known person of that era seemed to have either stayed at whole house or spoke at whole house. and many times, stayed for weeks or months. in the early 20th century, adams was revered and beloved nationally and internationally. 1913, it showed her that americans considered her one of history. in one of the most socially useful americans, second only to thomas edison. public opinion changed radically due to her pacifism before entering world war i. she was vilified by the media and by politicians. 1922,ve the red scare in in her work, she was seen as one of the most dangerous women of america. prepared inreport the red scare, after the bolshevik revolution, t

in college together at the beirut, university of and again, i run into him when i , my eaching at columbia first job after i got my ph.d. from the university of chicago, e was doing his ph.d. at columbia university, so i have ashraf ghani for way over 40 years. mr. lamb: on the dates for a finished high school where. mr. khalilzad: in ceres, 1967.ornia, in and went back to california, i went to school another six months or so and got a high from afghanistan well. mr. lamb: and your next degree. . . khalilzad: from beirut mr. lamb: graduated when. mr. khalilzad: in 1972. . lamb: then what irk mr. khalilzad: got a masters. mr. lamb: and then what. mr. khalilzad: a ph.d. from university of chicago in 1979. mr. lamb: i want to show you video of a man you mentioned in the book, there's tremendous connections with people in the nt.ted states governme you'll recognize him. clip, only one we could find of what he sounded like. >> there are some parts of the different a law has from asia, inlaw, central america and so on and here are some parts of the world where we have clear common interests as in the permission ts are here their interes more direct and mas

university of beirut. myas teaching at columbia, first job after i got my phd from the university of chicago, he was doing s phd at columbia university. ashraf ghani i have known -- i have known ashraf ghani for well over 40 years. host: you finish high school where? mr. khalilzad: i finished high school in ceres, california, in 1967. then i went back to afghanistan to get my bachelor. cculareate. it -- ba -- yourur next agree? next degree? from thelzad: university of beirut. i got a masters also from the american university in beirut in 1974. host: and then what? mr. khalilzad: a phd from the university of chicago in 1979. host: this man has tremendous connections. you won't recognize him. this is just a clip. it is the only one we could find what you look like and sounded like. it goes back to 1980. he is deceased now. >> there are some parts of the world where a law -- america, andentral there are some parts of the world where we have similar common interests as in the persian gulf. of many allies have been recognized, there is sharing the risks as well as the burdens. it is really reasonable. host: who

instead, he excelled in studies at the university of chicago high school. shortly after earning a ba in english at the university of chicago, justice stevens, enlisted as code break, after work at north western law school and graduated magna cum laud. after completing clerkship with supreme court justice, justice stevens returned to chicago and joined a prominent law enforcement where he specialized on antitrust law. he gained a reputation as antitrust lawyer and left the firm to start his own practice. he was invite today teach at the law schools of north western university and the university of chicago and he also held several important positions as special counsel to the house of representatives and the u.s. attorney's office. in 1970 president nixon appointed stevens for the seventh circuit, as an appellate judge he continued to establish himself as an expert legal thinker. fife years later he was elevated to the supreme court when justice williams douglas stepped down. judge stevenned retired at age 90 and has since written two books. he's redefining re

deirdre has taught at the university of illinois, chicago from 2000 - 2015. she is now emeriti. i will list all the departments and wish she talk but that would take us through the whole hour. one of them was economics, before that she taught at the university of iowa and also at the university of chicago. she is been a longtime friend of the economics department here at george mason and the center.schl i believe you have a scholarly articles may be number 400. i don't dare put a number on the number of other popular posts, magazine articles that you have written. i also believe this is your 17th authored book. as noted it is the final book in a remarkable trilogy which will consume over time today. before you get to the actual conversation let me quote from deirdre's website which i encourage you to visit, it's great website, it website, it has access to most of deirdre's works. on the website she protests, she is not a conservative economist. so here's what she is, if you don't mind me putting your words in your mouth. in deidra's words where she is quote, a literary, quantitat

so, about 10 years ago, the university of chicago, their admit rate was about 40%. and i think all of us here will agree that the university of chicago is a highly intellectual place and always has been. they -- over the years, they got rid of -- so, they had this very interesting application 10 years ago where they thought that, by asking students certain essay questions, they would find the right students for them. and they did, and it was a hard application, but if you really wanted to go there and you were that type of student, you know, it was a good application for you. they got rid of that application, and their application numbers have gone up, and so, all of a sudden now, 10 years later, i think they may be below 10% now. >> so they look more selective. >> they look more selective, but has the quality of education changed? >> not at all, right? so, i do think it's important for families to, as you say, give the unconditional support. nick and masashi, did you feel like, when you were applying and looking at schools, did your parents give you the sense that y

before that deidra taught at the university of iowa and also at the university of chicago. she is a longtime is been a longtime friend of the economics department at george mason and of the mcinnis center. i believe you have a scholarly articles of number about 400, i don't dare put a number on the number of other popular posts and magazine articles that you have written. i i also believe this is your 17th authored book, as pete noticed, the final book in a remarkable trilogy which will consume the bulk of our time today, but before we get to the actual conversation let me quote from deirdre's website which i encourage you to visit. it's a great website and has access to most of deirdre's work, on her website she protests that she is not a conservative economist. so here is what she is, if you do not mind me putting your words in your mouth. in deirdre's words she words she is quote, a literary, quantitative a postmodern, ms. from boston who is once a man, not conservative. i'm. i'm christian, by a christian libertarian. indeed she is. were i i to list all of deirdre's achi

most complex investigations prosecutors have had in this country and professor of law at the university of chicago who clerked in the for the chief judge for justice o'connor and justice beyer and they are now retired and now we should be having a full nomination hearing former secretary of transportation under president bill clinton previously served as the first african-american in the federal highway administration and a former judge of the u.s. circuit court of appeals for the third circuit's so he knows very well how this circuit court is appointed in 1992 i had the privilege of voting to confirm him and also serving as a federal district judge in pennsylvania so what i suggest is to save we will put the full statement in the record but then we could ask questions of the witnesses and i wonder not just because of the vermont connection are both former prosecutors but. >> or because she is a woman [laughter] we also have i italian ancestry. [laughter] >> than she is a woman and should go first. [laughter] i will be the last person to argue with senator feinstein won the most valuable members o

and the university of illinois chicago. i list the departments that take us through the hour. at the university of iowa. at the economics department at george mason and the katy center, and the scholarly article number about 400. i don't dare put a number on the number of popular blog posts and magazine articles. i also believe this is your 17th authored book. as pete noticed it is the final book in a remarkable trilogy. from deirdre's website. and she protests it is not a conservative economist. here is what she is. in deirdre's word she is, quote, a literary postmodern, and was once a man. not conservative. i'm christian, a christian libertarian. were i to list all of deirdre's achievements. and let's get to it. let's get to the publication, and i was in the mercator sponsored transcript. that is -- it changed a lot. and where did this come from? >> the germ was the notion of the virtues. aristocracy, peasantry, all they are are the virtues as understood in the west and the east and the south and the north of human society in a commercial context. courage, entrepreneurship, l

when i received an endowed chair at the university of chicago a few months ago, judge garland was one of the very first people to reach oit and congratulate me on that honor. so through times difficult and joyous, he's there by your side. the other thing is that, you know, one of the really vivid, indelible images from my time during the clerkship is that right around 6:00 p.m. judge garland would be, i would see him sort of furiously, feverishly packing cases and binders into his briefcase and then rushing out of the office with a quick "good night" to make sure he made it home to have dinner with his wife, lynn, and their two daughters. there was nothing more important than that. he definitely wanted to have the materials later in the evening for review, but nothing was more important than that. the other thing, i remember a very early conversation i had with him. judge garland had incisive views about adam levine's vocal stylings and maroon 5. he's incredibly sort of insightful commentary about the relative merits of their ouvre and i was confused. he's a seemingly sta. dimplet --

in how thet university is run in those kinds i had written my first book on the role of professors at the university of chicago in progressive era reform. i had developed a notion of what an urban university should be. and it should be lots of scholars going out and studying the city students learning in the city. i said that's what i want to do. my model of all this was my early research on that. just one more. i want to monopolize. i really wanted to do scholarship again. i have been writing a history of urban universities. one of the things i discovered was that the term urban university has been pejorative in most of american higher education. working-class low income commuter. that is shaping the way i am writing this book. i probably would use it. >> my name is dennis ritchie. i question is for dr. faust. connecticut legislature has proposed taxing yells endowment endowment. : in fact the ways and means committee is already thinking about that. they have asked all universities with endowments over $1 billion to respond with lengthy answers to lengthy questions. many institutions have posted these as they

when i received an endowed chair at the university of chicago a few months ago, he was one of the first people to reach out and congratulate me on that honor. so through times difficult and joyous he is there by your side. so the other thing is that, one of the really vivid images from my time during the clerkship is that right around 6:00 p.m., judge garland would be fiercely packing cases in binders into his briefcase and then rushing out of the office with a quick good night to make sure he made it home to have dinner with his wife lynn and his two daughters. there was nothing that was more important than that. he definitely wanted to have the materials later in the evening to review, but nothing was more important than that. i remember a very early conversation that i had. he had insightful views about adam levine's vocal styling and maroon five. he is incredibly insightful commentary about the relative merits and i was confused. he is a seemingly stayed guy but he knows this pop dance and of course that's because he would drive his daughters to school and at least periodically woul

justin driver, professor driver is a professor of law at the university of chicago. e clerked for the chief judge, rland, before he clerked for justice sandra day o'connor. and the retired justice o'connor said we should be having a full hearing on merrick garland. and secretary rodney slater, former secretary of the department of transportation nder president bill clinton. and judge timothy k. lewis is a former judge on the court of appeals for the third circuit so he knows very well now the circuit courts work. he was appointed by president 82. ge h.w. bush in 19 i had the privilege to confirm him. what i would suggest we do, probably have each of the witnesses say -- we'll put their full statement in the record, but then we could then ask questions of the witnesses not just r -- and because of the vermont connection or the fact that we're both former prosecutors but let me -- >> you could say it's because she's a woman. >> because we also have italian ancestry. so -- >> well, and she's a woman and should go first. [laughter] oh, well. senator leahy: i'd be the las

appearing at the university of chicago, the former "daily show" host called the presumptive republican presidential nominee narcissistic. >> he's a man baby. he has the physical countenance of a man and a baby's temperament and hands. >> but stewart didn't spare hillary clinton, saying the democratic front runner is a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions. >>> "the new york times" reports that bars and restaurants in the city may not refuse to serve pregnant women alcohol. a human rights panel says it would be discriminatory. at least 18 states legally view drinking alcohol by expectant mothers as child abuse. >>> and "the los angeles times" reports a school principal's assertion that reading fantasy books can cause brain damage. the head of a british private school labeled works like "harry potter" and "the lord of the rings" as addictive material. he lamented the fact that children can buy such books without a special license. >>> still to come, social media scandal. facebook responds to accusations of political bias in its trending news section. i'm phil mickelson

the former host sat down with the university of chicago institute for politics for a discussion on the and he took the opportunity to mock trump, using a phrase that is sure to stick around. >> i don't even that donald trump is eligible to be president. if are you eligible to run if you're man baby or a baby man? but he's a man baby. he has the physical countenance of a man, and a baby's temperament and hands. so -- >> and he didn't let hillary clinton off the hook. here's what he had to say about her candidacy. >> hillary clinton, i imagine to be a very bright woman without the courage of her convictions, because i'm not sure what they are. >> and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> now to washington, where i'm joined by politico reporter daniel strauss. good morning. >> good morning. >> now, bernie sanders, he's pulling ahead in west virginia with 37 delegates up for grabs. does another sanders win just continue to irk clinton's campaign here? >> absolutely. and the thing about west virginia is that in 2008, she won the state by 40 percentage points but now sanders

with the two presidential candidates to have to brace the gold standard with the university of chicago school of business with the i gm payroll to have samples of 50 economists of those ideological diversity to pulleys to kill bigger fracturing jobs as a river dam collection of blue dash random collection to find out if it would be a gold standard deal the time that i follow the survey that the answer was to be nervous and it was no. to the panel says one thing and a high proportion of candidate say something else. so the book therefore was designed to serve the. money is set to a strange concept we're you fully understood it. because it is so strange at the end of the day it is in issue of trust the people things money will work in the banking has inherited frailties that will never change. that is about the lenders and borrowers. to do their shadow banks but at the end of the day those who have extra capital give it away temporarily. but a woman called me from "time" magazine to say is it a good thing but it is usually that means to to buy a house before you're 65 or afford to go to

instead, he excelled in his studies at the university of chicago preparatory high school. ortly after earning a b.a. in english at the university of chicago, justice stevens enlisted in the navy and served as a code breaker during world war ii for which he was awarded a bronze star. after the war he attended northwestern law school with funds from the g.i. bill and graduated magna cum laude with the highest gpa in the law school's history. after completing a clerkship with supreme court justice willie rodlich, justice stevens returned to chicago and joined a prominent law firm where especialized in antitrust law. he gained a reputation as a talented antitrust lawyer and soon left the firm to start his own practice. he was invited to teach at the law schools of northwestern university and the university of chicago. and he also held several positions as special counsel to the u.s. house of representatives and the u.s. attorney general's office. in 1970 president nixon appointed justice stevens to the u.s. court of appeals for the 7th circuit. as an appellate judge, he continu

of justice as well as working as chief counsel on the senate judiciary committee. commissioner pai received a ba from harvard university with honors and a j.d. from university of chicago where he was editor of the university of chicago law review. thanks for being here. chairman edith ramirez was sworn in as federal commissioner effective march 4, 2013. prior to joining the commission, ramirez was a litigation partner in the los angeles firm of quinn , emanuel, iraheart, and sullivan. before then, ramirez was an associate of gibson, dunn, and crutcher in los angeles. she clerked for the honorable alfred t. goodman in the united states court of appeals and for the ninth circuit. ramirez graduated from harvard law school cum laude where she served as editor of the law review. she holds a bachelor's degree from harvard college. she would probably get along well to the guy to my left here, my far left here. just kidding. [laughter] joking. harvard jokes. commissioner -- >> i get it. [laughter] jeff flake: commissioner marine olhawsen has served as a commissioner for the federal trade commission sings april 4, 2012. prior to joinings the commission she was partner at wilki

gave the keynote at that conference but 14 years been at the university of chicago where he was chair of the history department and a proponent of black studies. in that moment, he said in a dress in which he endorsed the politics and intellectual inquiry. in some ways, the direct bearing betweenarlier conflict not just franklin by his generation and the younger generation emerging because their experience was to integrate american history. our project was to write a history of african-americans separate from the american history. they are not mutually exclusive but what we felt was needed was to understand the experience, the aspirations and so forth of the history of africans -- african-americans not separate from the relationship of oppression, struggle. some of them not ratified by the establishment. >> new topics as well and new people who had been excluded from the histories of the past one of theor so and things that i most recently remember about that conference was that we were so exuberant at our newness that we were having this conference and john franklin was there giving

university of beirut. and then again, i ran into him when i was teaching at columbia, my first job after i got my phd at the university of chicagohe was doing his phd at columbia university. i have known ashraf ghani for well over 40 years. brian: you finished high school where? mr. khalilzad: i finished high school in ceres, california, in 1967. then i went back to afghanistan to get my bacculareate. brian: your next degree? mr. khalilzad: from the university of beirut. a bachelors. brian: what year did you graduate from there? mr. khalilzad: 1972. i got a masters also from the american university in beirut in 1974. brian: and then what? mr. khalilzad: a phd from the university of chicago in 1979. brian: this man has tremendous connections. you will recognize him. this is just a clip. it is the only one we could find what you look like and sounded like. it goes back to 1980. he is deceased now. [video clip] >> there are some parts of the world where a law -- in asia, in central america, and so on. but there are some parts of the world where we have similar common interests as in the persian gulf. in such cases, many lives have

of justice as well as working as chief counsel on the senate judiciary committee. commissioner pai received a b.a. from harvard university with honors and a j.d. from university of chicago where he was editor of the university of chicago law review. thanks for being here. chairman edith ramirez -- was designated to serve as ftc chairwoman effective march 4, 2013. prior to joining the commission, ramirez was a litigation partner in the los angeles firm of quinn, emanuel, irgaheart and sullivan. before then, ramirez was an associate of gibson dunn and crutcher in los angeles. she clerked for the honorable alfred t. goodman in the united states court of appeals and for the ninth circuit. ramirez graduated from harvard law school cum laude where she served as editor of the law review. and holds a bachelor's degree from harvard college. she probably will get along well to the guy to my left here, my far left here. just kidding. joking. harvard jokes. commissioner -- >> i get it. >> commissioner maureen ohlhausen has served as a commissioner for the federal trade commission since april 4th, 2012. prior to joining the commission, she was a partner where she focused on ftc issu

professor driver is a professor of law at the university of chicago. he clerked for the chief judge before he clerked with the supreme court for justice sandra day o'connor and justice steven briar. and justice o'connor said we should be having a full nomination hearing and a vote of merrick garland. and secretary rodney slater is a former secretary of transportation under president bill clinton. he previously served as the first african-american administrator of the federal highway administration. he's an old friends. judge timothy k. lewis is a former judge on the u.s. court of -- circuit court of appeals for the third circuit. he knows very well how the circuit courts work. he was appointed by president george h.w. bush in 1992. i had the privilege of voting to confirm him. also served as a district judge in the western district of pennsylvania. what i would suggest we do, probably have each of the witnesses say why they're here. if we could then ask questions of the witnesses. i wonder -- and not just because of the vermont connection or the fact w

of community in danger? from chicago by the associative vice president of the university of chicago's center for entrepreneurshiphael paul ski just gave $35 million to expand the center and you run. when you look at schools like stamford, are you late in the game? >> what we are doing is putting together a comprehensive program . if you look at the chicago ecosystem we are helping to accelerate an emerging ecosystem that is becoming vibrant. from our perspective, the opportunity we have and the rich tradition we have of the combined focus around innovation and entrepreneurship started at booth and the polls e center led to a new challenge which is a 20-year-old challenge which is a top-ranked accelerator. connecting it to other aspects of the university and the national labs including oregon and formulae of, allows us -- ormulab,g argon and f allows us to put in a position where we look at best practices and build from the ground up at a time when the chicago ecosystem is being formed. we want to contribute and have a focus around this common systematic approach to looking at how we build businesses emerging fro

tell you something, some of this makes a lot of sense it was 2013 when an economist from the university of chicago "wall street journal." if we take all of our debt and convert it into 30-year bond, we lock in the interest rate it's at an all-time low and 40% of it turns over every year. 65% turns over every three years. when interest rates go up and they will go up, we can lock in a good deal. that isn't unfounded. it's not like it hasn't been talked about before and it's not completely unreasonable. charles: boris, you understand when we see the world falling apart our treasuries do extraordinarily well because money pours in. our dollar does well because it's the world's reserve currency. all that is based on the full faith and credit and the idea you would never give anybody less than a dollar credit on these bonds. >> nobody is talking about default. >> that's not true. >> from a financial perspective. if you have a loan or you are a lender or creditor, it's a negotiation. charles: i understand businesses do that. i understand bankrupts do those kind of things. but one of the things that keep

he was invited to teach at the law schools of northwestern university and university chicago, he also helped several important positions, special counsel to his house of representatives and his attorney general's office. in 1970, president nixon appointed him to the u.s. court of appeals for the seventh circuit. as an appellate judge to continue to establish himself as an expert legal thinker. five years later he was elevated to the supreme court when justice william douglas step down. justice stevens retired in 2010 at age 90 and has since written two books. he is redefining retirement, because he can't even in this quote retirement, remains a very active participant in the formation of supreme court decisions. and relevant to today's imposing a very numerous pinions of free speech as. so please welcome a great public servant, scholar and educator, justice john paul stevens. [applause] >> president jordan, i'm sorry, judge jordan and president frank, thank you for that very kind introduction and that nice welcome. it's always a welcome to address an audience in this for. i have been

she was last seen walking toward the university of chicago april 21st.lete clinical rotations but attended medical school in mexico. no one has heard from him there has been no activity on his credit card and phone. he already ordered his cap and gown. automatic oo we just learned prince was planning to meet with a drug treatment specialist the day after he died from a main killer over cos. >> he was helping him with his alleged addiction. they are trying to figure out who gave prince the prescription pain pills. >> the feds telling the north carolina governor his bathroom law is against the law. the justice department says requiring people to use the rest room that matches their birth sex is illegal. they are in jeopardy>> political correctness run a muck again telling people mott to drink and drive in sync de myo. before your first margarita cold beer or shot of tequila make sure you have a designated sober driver. the department took it back and called their language insensitive to the cultural holiday. as an irish girl they say that to me every year

the reason there's three volumes is the second volume is so big that the university of chicago published it in two parts. i owe a tremendous debt to the president during the 14 years i commuted here from pittsburgh. he supported -- i don't think there's another institution of its kind that would have supported me for 14 years and hired them to do the leg work of going through the enormous amount of material that there is in the fed records so i owe a great debt to my friend for making that book possible. i'm pleased to discuss the book on fed power and independence. let me start with the parts of the book that i like most. the fed is political as well as an economic institution. you can't be in washington without being a political institution. the book appropriately is a work in political economy and gives much attention especially to the role of the president the answer said it's impossible to find he is as independent as the law might like to make him. he's wrong about that. i think ronald reagan and jerry ford and several presidents took the position that interfering with the business

you know, they -- i think i was invited there because i run the institute of politics at the university of chicagoand i'm very committed to the goal of inspiring or trying to inspire young people to consider lives in the public sector and the public's sphere and that's what i wanted to be there because this is where ronald reagan's journey began and it was a very great experience. >> i don't know about the two of you, but for me, this was an awesome responsibility. in other words, i had to spend a lot of time. you might not know it from having heard my speech but i put john king a lot of times in my remarks. what was your approach? >> i spent a lot of time asking what do you want to live? you want to be a realist that it's tough out there, but what i get -- i get more than i give from these speeches. these kids are so full of idealism. a will the of them are idealist but they're skeptical of government. new way to serve, not necessarily in public office but in nonprofits, as volunteers and you have these great optimistic talents in front of you. >> here is john king. >> i'm being brutally honest i

from the university of chicago law school where he graduated with high honors. federalist society for law and policy studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. it's founded on the principles exists tourrent state preserve freedom, preserve powers, and it's the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. first, we will hear from our panelists, and i will pose a few questions about justice scalia's legacy and tenure. will entertain your questions. let's begin. >> i am christy miles. when justice scalia joined the court, i was still in law school. during those years, harvard was critical legal studies and other deconstructionist theorys and seemed like a law blur of fuzzy thinking, policy considerations and multibalancing tests. controversy law like wise process oftle on the contract language or applying the rules of language in more considerations of fairness, equality of bargaining power and similar issues. statutory interpretation was not a subject at all. it was simply not at

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he has his undergraduate does degree from hampshire college and law degree from the university of chicago. our final witnesses misprint. she served on the privacy and civil liberties oversight board since 2012. has served as vice president and chief counsel for regulatory litigation at the u.s. chamber litigation center and practice of law at two firms in washington. she is also served as assistant attorney general for legal policy at the department of justice and associate counsel in the office of white house. she has her undergraduate degree from the university of minnesota morris and her law degree from harvard. most importantly she has been an intern in my office and she is from allah iowa. palayou ought to clap that. i'm going to make a statement now and then senator leahy will be here and i will let the witnesses speak. almost exactly 66 months ago our nation's oldest ally, france suffered the deadliest attack on its soil since world war ii. in a series of coordinated suicide bombings, mass shooters and hostages taken across paris isis held 130 people and people and injured 160. the

degree from the university of chicago law school. policy isderalist interested in the current state of the legal order. its founded on the principles that the state exist to preserve freedom and the separation of governmental powers is essential to the constitution and that it is the duty of the judiciary to state with the law is, not what it should be. we will hear from our calvinists and then pose a couple of questions about justice scalia. and then we will close your -- entertain your questions. >> hi, my name is kristin miles. when justice scalia joined the court, i was still in law school. harvard was the home of legal studies and other deconstructionist series. constitutional law seemed like a blur of policy thinking and balancing tests. contract law focused little on interpreting contract language or applying the rules of construction in fairness, equality of bargaining power. statutory interpretation was not a subject at all, it was not taught in law schools including harvard. only by the time i graduated in 1988, justice scal

of justice as well as working as chief counsel on the senate judiciary committee. commissioner pai received a baxt from harvard university with honors and a j.d. from university of chicago where he was editor of the university of chicago law review. thanks for being here. chairman edith ramirez -- was designated to serve as ftc chairwoman effective march 4, 2013, prior to joining the commission, ramirez was a litigation partner in the los angeles firm of quinn emanuel iraheart and sullivan. before then, ramirez was an associate of gibson dunn and crutcher in los angeles. she clerked for the honorable alfred t. goodman in the united states court of appeals and for the ninth circuit. ramirez graduated from harvard law school cum laude where she served as editor of the law review. she probably will get along well to the guy to my left here, my far left here. just kidding. joking. harvard jokes. commissioner -- >> i get it. >> commissioner marine olhawsen has served as a commissioner for the federal trade commission sings april 4, 2012, prior to joinings the commission she was partner at wilkinson barker where she focused on ftc issues including cyber security and data prot

there was a study conducted funded by the university of chicago. o with conspiracy theories that found 50% of americans believe in some kind of conspiracy theory. dean, is there something about this election cycle that is working in trump's favor when it comes to us talking about conspiracies? >> i'm not sure. i think it is probably specific to certain conspiracies. not everything is a conspiracy. i think honestly -- >> actually, the vince foster thing is not a conspiracy theory. what happened to vince foster. >> the investigation said he committed suicide. it was not nefarious. >> why were the e-mails deleted? >> he gave a speech about energy independence. he said america has more oil reserves than opoke peck. he said america has the most natural gas reserves, we're fifth. the idea that -- but when he gives facts he gives mistake after mistake. they are not just conspiracy theories. four-year low in rain in california. >> the members of nato do not spend 2% they are obligated to spend on national security. >> you think -- cher children that are inf

it not only kept the economy, now 85, i think that's the number, the university of chicago, a brilliant institution, not the most liberal one. the school of chicago economics, i think they did a survey and it said 84% of economists said it helped prevent depression or raise us out of a significant recession. but we wanted to do more than that. you tell me if i'm taking too much time, ok? [laughter] joe biden: sorry. but i think this is really -- it's the reason why we're in, the reason why we're doing what we're doing, man. i come from a wealthy state of delaware. i've always gotten great support. i won big in the state. by won seven times in the senate. in the corporate state of america, i don't have anything against rich folk, i mean that. they're as patriotic as poor folks, but they don't need me. rich folks don't need me to look out for their interests. that's not why i ran. that's not why i got involved. protect their security, but they're going to do ok without joe biden out there hollering for them. unless you all are hollering for the people we're with, they're not going to do o

have two presidential candidates, both of whom have been graced the gold standard when the university of chicago school of business. there's this thing called the international agm panel and they have a sample of 50 economist. it nicely ideologically diverse. a tremendous group of economists. i gm pulls these economists on issues of the day. did they kill manufacturing jobs today they ask at the bureau of labor statistics is worth the money we spend on it. when this panel is asked whether the united states would be better off if it went to a gold standard, it's the only time and it was unanimous senate was no. it should cause everybody a little concerned that we have every economist of note saying one thing and a high proportion of presidential candidates saying something else. the book was designed to serve this need and to think that covers our money. read something about what is money. money is such a strange calm that that there'll be times when i was working on the book weren't fully understood it and then it would go away. it is so strange. at the end of the day, it's an issue of trust tha

he was dean of the university of chicago's business school and also president of one of america's biggestn at stanford's institution, where he's now a distinguished fellow. very distinguished, indeed. >> many secretary, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you. glad to be here. >> when you were secretary of state, you were dealing with a world in which there was an existential threat to the united states. the soviet union had thousands and thousands of nuclear missiles on a hair trigger. do you look at the world today and think it is more unsafe or less unsafe than when you were dealing with politics and diplomacy? >> in those days, we had a program and a strategy. we were convinced it would work. now what i see is a world awash in change. almost everywhere you look is instability. and still, there are too many nuclear weapons around. there's also the threat of climate change. in other words, there are things that need to be worked on by more than one country at a time, and countries are having a hard time governing themselves, let alone interacting in a positive way. so i think it's a very

i would to the university of chicago. i believe in free trade. lieve in the free -- the trade agreements. we have been a supporter of those. charlie: so was the president. 's party was not. -- his party was not. john: we will see. charlie: the likely candidate for the democratic party is not. john: that is what we say today. in general there has been bipartisan support for trade. charlie: what happened? john: i don't know. i don't think we have done a good job, by we i mean business and in politics we have not done what we can to show americans the benefits of free trade. the administration i support them on trade. the administration has supported and affirmed that hydraulic fracturing can be done safely. there are some positives. i will say, right now, charlie: the ministration is against the pipeline. have beent now there some decisions -- there are a lot of relations at businesses right now. charlie: give me an example. john: and oil control rule in the gulf of mexico. we have put in 100 new practices in the last five years to improve drilling

he and a colleague at the university of chicago looked in to how physical attractiveness affects income. they looked at hair style, clothing, and makeup, and found women who make more of an effort to look put together make an average of $6,000 more. some say there's more to it. >> that could be true not because of the way you look but because of the way you feel about yourself. when you feel better about yourself, you're like i'm worth it so you're going to give me what i deserve. >> the study found good grooming makes less of a financial difference for men. they apparently benefit by simply looking good naturally. >> wish i looked good naturally. i would have benefited more. >>> we've got partly cloudy skies around the bay area at this hour. chance of rain coming in too for tomorrow, especially for the north bay. you'll see that in a minute. first the hi-def doppler is showing a few echoes around the wind turbines. we're high and dry today. you can see what's happening. low pressure lifting up over northern montana. you can see that swirl around where the banner says satellite. move it

from the university of chicago law school where he graduated with high honors. finally, the federalist society for law and public policy studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. it is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom that the separation of governmental powers is central to our constitution and that he is em fasityic the providence and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is not what it should be. first we'll hear from the panelists and then i'll pose questions and finally we'll entertain your questions. so let's begin. >> hi, my name is kristin myles. when justice scalia joined the court, i was still in law school. during those years, harvard was the home of critical legal studies and other deconstructionist theories. and constitutional law seems like a blur of fuzzy thinking and policy consideration and multifactor balancing tests. contract law likewise focused very little on the process of interpreting contract lang or applying the rules of construction in mo