german chancellor angela merkel has been ordered by the university of harvard which awarded her its owner a dr of laws degree in a speech merkel made her.

german chancellor angela merkel has been ordered by the university of harvard which awarded her its owner a dr of laws degree in a speech merkel made her.

german chancellor angela merkel has been altered by the university of harvard which awarded her its owner a dr of laws degree in a speech merkel made her.

united states now where german chancellor angela merkel is being honored at one of the world's most prestigious universities harvard is awarding merkel its honorary doctor of law degree the chancellor has been on campus in cambridge massachusetts to receive that honor as the university compares for its commencement ceremony later today merkel is due to give the commencement speech in about 4 hours we will be bringing you that address live along with simultaneous translation. actually washington bureau chief alex had a phenomenon is outside of harvard university so welcome we expect today. so at the moment morning exercises a very great and exciting ceremony for a students and parents are underway with dean or outside where i'm standing i'm standing outside to hold the art and the morning exercises are taking place inside all 50 yards and then there is of course america the special guest here today the german chancellor who will be awarded an on there every degree and then she will be holding this year's commencement speech here at harvard and the president of the university said that she is one of the most widely a

chancellor angela merkel is being honored by one of the country while one of the world's most prestigious universities harvard university is awarding her its honorary doctorate of laws degree chancellor merkel has been on campus in cambridge massachusetts to receive on the university for its commitments commencement ceremony later she's due to give the commencement commencement speech in less than 4 hours and we'll bring you that lie. ahead about the joint washington bureau chief alexandra fall naaman outside harvard university welcome alexandra why did they choose the chancellor. the president of the university said in a statement when the announcement was made that a miracle is one of the most widely admired. and influential states people of our time that her leadership has done much to shave the course not only of her country but also the course of europe so these were very flattering words and so we also have to add that even more flattering was video that the university put together to announce some merkel as this year's commencement speaker let's have a look. well that's very dramatic i'd like one of th

we have to say that the harvard university has a very deep ties with germany and they are reaching back to the 19th 100 were german university universities were seen as a sort of role models for other universities and merkel is not the 1st chancellor to hold the commencement speech here at harvard he is she's actually the force chance or so it was called right out in our home with schmidt and helmut kohl who were speaking here to the harvard graduates so it is sort of a tradition but of course we also have to have that the faculty at harvard is considered a rubber of liberal leaning and there are many here who really respect and admire merkel and who don't like donald trump. all right of course that's important to get to today to take note of alexander coming to you we heard alexander touched on the fact that the speech from markel this commencement address comes at a time where u.s. german relations certainly aren't at their highest point to tell us about the context of this. yes well certainly i mean there's a lot of contentious issues how to deal with china the u.s. being actually in what many already perceived to be the beginnings of a trade war in particu

african-american to become a faculty dean at harvard his wife who is also a harvard dean is suffering the same fate on learning of the university's decision the couple sent a statement to harvard student newspaper we are surprised and dismayed by the actions of harvard announced today we believed the discussions we were having with high level university representatives were progressing in a positive manner but harvard unilaterally ended those talks or some harvard graduates have voiced their concern over the decision pointing out that everyone no matter how unpleasant is entitle to legal defense of those went so far as to call harvest decision embarrassing well harvard does say it is based its basing its decision on signals coming from students adding that the climate on the campus had become untenable human rights attorney jennifer braden though told us sullivan's case does set a set a disturbing precedent. i am very surprised by harvard university especially given that this is from the law school at harvard i mean we're seeing in recent years how some of these top tier law schools like harvard are sort of going down and how the

going to thank you for joining us welcome to our special coverage of german chancellor angela merkel's commencement speech at harvard university she is due to speak shortly now it has already been a busy day for america in cambridge massachusetts just a few hours ago harvard conferred an honorary doctor of law degree on the chancellor in announcing her visit harvard's president called merkel one of the most widely admired and broadly influential states people off our time. and as you can see we're going to bring up a window here waiting for the chancellor to begin her address to harvard university graduating class of 2019 you see the pictures there the ceremonies begun as soon as the chancellor gets up to speak we're going to listen and live it to that. ari and to talk more about this we have our chief political editor now with us here in our studio and over at harvard yard we have. phenomenal both of you with us thank you both i looked at her let's start with you what can we expect from the chancer speech today so will be very interesting to hear whether she's going to hold a rubber political speech german diplomats here told

to scheduling problems but of course this is something that you normally would expect both leaders to meet well they're busy people some truth or not going to harvard university in the united states thank you. and of course we'll bring you live coverage of the chancellor the harvard commencement speech which is due to start in about 2. to latin america now the region of the world with the highest number of forced disappearances official figures estimate that about 200000 people have disappeared in the last 2 decades so that is likely to be an underestimate the country with the most missing people is colombia where more than 100000 thought to have disappeared during 50 years of conflict civil war in guatemala also led to tens of thousands of disappearances since the end of the conflict in 1996 the country has been criticized for failing to bring those responsible to justice. argentina on the other hand has been praised for the way it has handled its past during the years of dictatorship that's 976 to 983 security forces abducted about 30000 people government and military leaders have since faced trial. and so to mexico where the war between the drug cartels is

of. harvard university professor ronald sullivan is facing an imminent departure as faculty dean the universe sees decision not to renew his contract came off to months of protests by students targeting the professor that transpired sullivan had joined the defense team with movie mogul harvey weinstein and although sullivan has since stepped down from weinstein's defense team it is still planning not the danes contract when it expires in june that will profess it was the 1st african-american to become a faculty dean at harvard assuming his position in 2009 along with ronald sullivan his wife stephanie robinson is now going to lose her job as dean saying. this have been campaigning against son of an. january in recent weeks tensions escalated to some students staging a sit ins on campus however some harvard graduates have voiced their concern over the university's latest decision. why instant is horrible but this is a bad decision by my alma mater harbutt everyone is entitled to defense what does the say to aspiring was from law school this is this is embarrassing i hope everyone associated wi

untenable human rights attorney jennifer breathe told us all of this case does set a disturbing precedent. i am very surprised by harvard university especially given that this is from the last will at harvard i mean we're seeing in recent years how some of these top tier law schools like harvard are sort of going down and how they train their attorneys students these students chose to become attorneys but they're feeling unsafe because a professor or a dean chose to take on a case to defend somebody who's alleged of a crime this is a man and his wife who have nothing to do with allegations of harvey weinstein so not only are we seeing a dangerous trend where innocent until proven guilty is off the books we're seeing a dangerous trend where anybody who does their job which is attorney is that have a right to represent that they're being punished they don't even have the right to employment anymore is absolutely unprecedented and should never happen again that's our global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for telling it. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be spea

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students however definitely expect her to give to give them some sort of advice and inspiration alexandra naaman at harvard university in the united states thank you. and of course we'll bring you live coverage of the chancellor's hard command speech which is due to start in about a half hour. now to mexico where up to 40000 people estimated to have gone missing over the last decade and a half the high number of disappearances aspiring to violent drug cartels human trafficking and heavy migration through mexico the u.n. says many of the missing are children or adolescents don't do as much as being to meet a group of mothers who spend their days searching for their disappeared the children . why that man amedee now finally found her missing son. he disappeared without a trace 5 years ago at the milan family and in reality following me and on one day he was selling cell phone accessories as usual and he was just kidnapped at a gas station because my son was disappeared in the author already stood look for him i started my own search local police were no help she says but that was no surprise ordinary police officers ar

atd of global inflation barclays. harvard university doubling down on hedge funds. we want to you about what is now a contrarian bet, and compare the performance of other hedge funds, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm vonnie quinn. saying smartrsity money is now in hedge funds. the universe are its investment in hedge funds, which now total of $13 billion, according to university filings. joining us to talk about the investment strategy is peggy ,ollins, investing team leader and soon to be revealed as something else. harvard university has decided hedge funds are the place to be again. is that something to do with the market cycle? andhe person leading the dominant to comment on the story. since he has come on in 2016 from columbia's endowment, he has upped their investment in hedge funds, which too many is a contrarian stance. hedge funds have been beaten down for seven years for poor performance compared to the skyrocketing s&p, and for high fees as well. those 2/20 fees have come under scrutiny. on the other hand, we did speak to

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university hosted this event. >> marie griffith is one of the leading scholars and has a stellar academic resume. she went to harvard university and to some of scare basketball frenetic school in virginia. [laughter] feel free to mention that. then she taught at some marvelous places like princeton and harvard. for eight years, she has been at university of st. louis danforth center for religion and political studies, just becoming the center for that type of work and that intersection of two critical things in american society. i am enthused to hear her talk about her new book. it is her sixth book and you'll enjoy hearing about of your without further ado, help us to join -- welcome our guest. [applause] thank you all so very much. it is really an honor to deliver this lecture. jeff, forful to you, this initial invitation and also well.a spitz educate as -- and to kate as well. fork you for hosting me today and part of tomorrow. when my book, "mortal kombat" "me out, and the subtitle is how sex divided american christians and fractured american politics." when the book came out, i received a lot of kind compliment

of the captains involved in the collision. i'm sumi so much going to thanks for joining us german chancellor angela merkel has delivered the commencement address for this year's graduating class at harvard university medical reflected on germany's past a speaking of her formative years growing up in east germany in the shadow of the berlin wall the chancellor reaffirmed her commitment to achieving climate neutrality of germany by the year 2050 she dressed graduates after accepting an honorary doctorate in law from the university. let's listen to what she said don't forget that freedom is never something that can be taken for granted. surprise to so with what is possible. remember that openness always involves risks letting go of the old is part of the new beginning and above all nothing can be taken for granted everything is possible thank you thank thing . washington bureau chief ally from the phenomena traveled to harbor to take in the speech today and she joins us now hi alexander good to see you so what did you make of the speech and what did students think of it. i total many graduates here and they seemed to be very impressed by the speech and they told me that they think that merkel struck

university hosted this event. >> marie griffith is one of the leading scholars and has a stellar academic resume. she went to harvard university and to some of scare basketball frenetic school in virginia.

[applause] a graduate of harvard university with a joint law degree, mba from nyu, he was a real estate developer before joining the campaign that brought his father-in-law to the white house. senior adviser to the president, he has a broad range of responsibilities from international trade and immigration to criminal justice reform. but to make people focus of course on the middle east have the pursuit of the arab israeli peace and the format will be spontaneous and unscripted. the conversation between jared kushner and our executive director. as most of you know, robert is the washington institute. he's been the director for the past 26 years. [applause] among his many talents he's also a professional interviewer for the past 14 he has hosted a weekly talk show on the u.s. government arabic satellite channel explaining to middle east viewers how washington works or doesn't work. tonight we see those skills in action and if you don't appreciate the nuances of the discussion, fear not. after dinner they will decipher precisely what he heard and didn't here and on behalf of the washingto

the misconduct directly to the pharma companies involved to the universities like harvard university faculty and in some cases university of pennsylvania and elsewhere. with the faculty of some of these universities are actually helping big pharma get away with some of the major misconduct that they're getting away with so if you really want to get upset read my blog and learn what's happening read that book i got it all right well you've teed up the obvious 1st question why do drugs cost less in canada and elsewhere than they cost here it's mainly because they have very effective lobbyists and very effective contributions for political candidates to get elected so that they can protect their turf at the expense of other regulating countries so for example you can buy most pharmaceuticals much cheaper in canada in european countries in india south africa we are by far in most instances the most expensive but it isn't a matter of a few cents it's a matter of double and triple and quadruple the cost and in addition what happens is many of these drugs all though they have american companies listed as the seller other distribu

here watching the news here's a recap of the top stories we're following for you joe when john sanyo mcelhone given the commencement speech at harvard university she issued an opinion from multilateralism to tackle challenges on the was and graduates not to take for granted. and police and hungry have detained the captain of a cruise ship that fatally rammed a 2 a boat on the 70 block and from dead pretty fantastic missing crews are gearing up to race the votes from the bottom of the river flowing to the hospital but uppish. that said to me that she was on the news chain smoke coming up at the top of the hour. eco africa. these people used to make money by hunting elephants. now only earn their living collecting elephant dung. here in queen elizabeth national park in uganda. their work plays an important role in protecting this endangered species. next g.w. . i'm not going to the gym i just sometimes i am but i stand up and win for that reason german thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes of the classics but if you think the future of the country that i now know the time. needed to take this drama down to me it's all

he is a rhodes scholar and a graduate of harvard university. our guest today lives with his husband, chest and, in the same neighborhood where he grew up with their two rescue dogs, truman and body. ladies and gentlemen, mayor pete buttigieg. [applause] mayor pete. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. thank you for the kind introduction and for the kind invitation and thank you jay for hosting us and i want to acknowledge frank for cooking up the idea and inviting here and persuading someone else to go along with it. thank you to frank. [applause] it's a real pleasure to be back in chicago. when i was a consultant, i lived at wabash and the state and between clark and dearborn and monroe and like i said, i was between wabash and state and monroe so i had a one block commute which i've not been able to replicate even after moving back to south bend. it's great to be back here in what really amounts to spectacular weather, by our midwestern standards. [laughter] as you know, i'm from

of us all nothing can be taken for granted everything is possible thank you. q. q. a standing ovation there for chancellor angela merkel delivering the commencement address at harvard university for the graduating class of 2019 now the chancellor she gave a wide ranging speech she touched on her own personal history growing up in east germany which is in the fall of the wall and she outlined a lot of the challenges facing the world today and michelle is political editor with a with us to take a look at this speech your 1st impressions michelle are well on her scale that was a pretty gripping speech where she gave more of an insight than you saw into her kind of emotions and her thinking because she said that she sometimes the chancellor also has doubts that she wonders whether she's doing something because it's right or because it's possible and clearly that's also what she called on those students to think about particularly in relation to artificial intelligence and looking into the future she summarized quite well this explains that she she had as a message to those students but the 1st standing ovations that we saw when she said under point 3. looking at. the future and t

people lawrence that down for example lawrence tribe sorry excuse me right now is one of them a harvard university right now and essentially he's in done some treason because he had a telephone conversation with the president of the world's second strongest military power and sixth largest economy that's where we are. yeah and it is quite a bizarre thoughts to think that people are criticizing this probably the claims of collusion will follow from those claiming you know there's a possibility for you three where you clearly deal russia u.s. and china in discussion in the pipeline would that be a stabilizing thing for the world comes amid what a crumbling i.n.f. treaty. trump needs something for the legacy i mean he's already canceled the i.m.f. the i.m.f. started deal with russia i'm what he really wants i mean has he been saying for the last three years basically since the campaign trail he wants to get along with everybody he wants to get along with russia he wants to get along with china i'm sure other countries to but the problem is will he be allowed to do that will the people around him will

of this is the. visit to berlin comes a day after german chancellor merkel delivered the commencement address at harvard university in boston her advice to the graduating class there was laced with indirect criticism of president trump and his policies. don't waltz of ignorance and narrow mindedness on nothing has to stay as it is. it was one of several standing ovations for the german chancellor during hurricane speech she ended and began an english highly unusual. at such a major event. then gets awfully if we step out and embrace new beginnings everything is possible. for the normally cautious pragmatic politician this was a far reaching to do list she spoke of halting global warming eradicating starvation eliminating diseases giving people especially girls access to education and fighting the causes of displacement and forced migration and forced migration that's how we can do all of that at. the harvard commencement speech is by tradition inspirational setting the bar high for graduating students merkle edge them not to act impulsively but to take a moment to stop and think during laughter as well as applause

university hosted this event. >> for the brilliant talk we are going to have tonight from marie griffith who is one of the leading scholars and has a stellar academic resume. she went to harvard university and to some obscure basketball frenetic school in virginia. [laughter] feel free to mention that. then she taught at some marvelous places like princeton and harvard. for eight years, she has been at the washington university of st. louis danforth center for

he is a rhodes scholar and a graduate of harvard university. our guest today lives with his , in the sametain neighborhood where he grew up, with there to rescue dogs, truman and buddy. ladies and gentlemen, mayor pete buttigieg. mayor pete? [applause] mayor buttigieg: thank you, thank you. thank you very much, please. thank you. [applause] mayor buttigieg: thank you very much, thank you for the kind introduction, for the kind invitation. fork you, jay douherty, hosting us. and thank you to frank. it is a real pleasure to be back in chicago. when i was a consultant, i lived .t what bash in state i worked between clark and dearborn, i guess i was between onroe. and state on m block commute, which i cannot even replicate in south bend, and it is great to be back here in spectacular weather, as amounted to buy our midwestern standards. if you get on lakeshore drive and take off on i-95 about an hour and a half later you are in our hometown. there are many great people here who know south bend very well. there is more than that, come on. [laughter]

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of thousands have disappeared. thank you for joining us. german chancellor angela merkel has delivered the commencement address for this year's graduating class at harvard university. she reflected on germany's past, speaking of her formative years growing up in the shadow of the berlin wall. the chancellor reaffirmed her commitment to achieving climate neneutrality. earlier thisis year, s she r red an honorary d doctorate i in law from the university. she spoke about the relationship between germany and the u.s. let's listen to what she said a little bit eararlier at that commencemement addreress. >> [speaking german] >> that requires us not to described lies as truth and truth as lies. [cheers and applause] ; that received a standing ovation. -- sumi: that received a standing ovation. you can hear us. i don't think we can see you at the moment, but since you are there on the ground, give us first of all some of your impressions. alexandra: i think it was interesting, that we did not expect that the speech is going to be very political, but it was. merkel talked first of all from her personal life how she grew up in east germany and how she felt about the berlin

of sunday's election. to my right is professor serhii plokhii, a professor at hoofrd university, the director of the harvard ukrainian research institute. next to him is matthew kmin ski, the editor of chief in "politico" and previous incarnation as correspondent for central europe, and for the financial times, for the economist, for "the wall street journal," and editorial writer for "the wall street journal" and then was the inaugural editor of "politico" europe. and then on the very far end of the table is balazs jarabik, a scholar, spending last two decades in and out of ukraine and other parts of the former soviet union as an incubator for civil society groups and as a very, i sort of i think very independent voice of reason about developments in ukraine, at least was the first person who i encountered who was telling me at the beginning of this year that zelenskiy was for real and published in "politico" words to that effect so those are kind of nice interactions, and collaboration with "politico." so i'm going to set the scene a little bit. and then pose some questions to colleagues, and then we'll c

reflection of that picture in sochi here in doha joining us on set is a cousin of a visiting associate professor at harvard university's golf studies center nicholai welcome to the program what was it what did you make of the relations have been rock bottom do you get any sense of reconciliation well i'm afraid that there will be a long list of all the points of convergence between russian and american point of view on quite a number of issues we've got a long list of disagreements just confirming that there will be quite a lot of problems they had before the congress can manage to work out a position if they do particular interests right now of course relevance at this moment or the escalating tensions in the middle east region particularly with iran and the latest news of the hooty attack on the pipeline in saudi arabia and also what they were talking about the. so-called sabotage attacks on vessels in. the situation around iran is going to. what's. the dog's on the tankers in persian gulf he didn't bring enough stability or in come the existing tensions in my take is that the main concerns of both the. russian autho

the federalist society was founded in 1982 by conservative law students at yale, harvard and university ofeme court justice antonin scalia was one of the faculty advisers, also a fierce advocate of the society's two main legal authorizes. one is originalism. the idea that the meaning of the constitution does not change with the times. anything the founders didn't include, such as abortion or gay marriage, shouldn't be considered. the second is textualism meaning laws should be interpreted based only on the text rather than the intent of the authors. the problem being addressed or the conditions at the time. now, the federalist society got a boost during the reagan admission when attorney general edwin meese put young conservative lawyers in key justice department positions. nearly half of george w. bush's judicial appointments were members of the federalist society. bush also appointed john roberts and samuel alito, who both have strong ties to the group, to the supreme court, and both of president trump's supreme court picks, neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh were members of the society. t

of agriculture. now. joining us for more professor him montreux he teaches economics at harvard university professor good to see you know him yes farming crisis has been going on for quite some time now why has it not been addressed well there are a number of reasons for this but let me just say that. it said in the g.d.p. is now when the us less than less than fifteen question is not in the list of the governments are trying to drive growth for that are compared to other countries but also because the need to difficult it seems to agriculture has become a little bit because of the globalization of the economy that instead of production in the agriculture sector it seems it's become much more cash based though so governments over the years have been not investing as much amount of money as is required for an agriculture which is dramatically in the last twenty to thirty years so i think the combination of all these factors and let the situation that you can use to remain well able to external shocks with their stocks as well as domestic internally internet economy you spoke of money in terms of money both

of the mississippi river. thank you. [applause] prof. lester: thomas cohens is our third presenter. he received his phd from harvard university in 2004 and wrote his dissertation on the formation of the jackson party, 1822-1825. he received a fellowship, a harvard graduate merit fellowship, and a fellowship at the american antiquarian society in support of the completion of his graduate work. while an undergraduate at yale university, he was inducted into phi alpha kappa -- i'm sorry, phi beta kappa, and he is the associate editor of andrew jackson's papers and an associate professor in the department of history. he is the author of a book manuscript titled "the forked tongue: the andrew jackson indian removal act and the betrayal of native america." the title of his presentation hickoriesyoung apprenticeship, james k. polk and the bank war." mr. cohens: thank you. when james k. polk was elected speaker of the house in 1835, it was widely seen as a reward for services rendered as congressional floor leader in the jackson administration war against united states. -- against the bank of the united states. hereafter, simply the

a graduate of harvard university with a joint law degree, mba from nyu, mr. kushner was a real estate developer before joining the 2016 election campaign that brought his father-in-law to the white house. a senior advisor to the president, he has a broad range of responsibilities, from international trade and immigration to criminal justice reform. but tonight we will focus, of course, on the middle east, the pursuit of arab-israeli peace. our far mat will be spontaneous and unscripted, a conversation between jared kushner and our executive director, rob. as most of you know, rob is the washington institute. he has been our director for the past 26 years. among his many talents, rob is also a professional interviewer. for the past 14 years he has hosted a weekly talk show on the u.s. government ar arick satellite channel, explaining to middle east viewers how washington works. or doesn't work as the case may be. tonight we goat see those interviewing skills in action. if you don't appreciate all the nuances of their discussion, fear not, after dinner, our own