of "the spirit of the law" religious voices and the constitution in modern america" par for university press. also the author of the mormon question and you referred to polygamy a couple of times. was that the issue about the mormons that got under people's skin? >>guest: it was the most prominent. there were others and in some ways of access to public places for speech and life near the 20th century but in the 19th century the big question was would bormann's be allowed to redefine marriage and control the symptoms enough that polygamy would be recognized and protected as a valid form of marriage by the secular legal system not just the church itself. >>host: are there parallels with the gay marriage today? >> there have been. one of the key issues for the mormon apologist as well as opponents was statehood for utah and it became pretty clear early on in american history that states have control over marriage within their borders as we have seen this fatah with the marriage equality debate today and utah pushed again and again for statehood and was denied again and again because of the ques

american and percy professor allan lichtman about his most recent book published by harvard university press, a "fdr and the jews." you're watching but tb on c-span2. >>host: you are watching booktv on c-span2 at american university of washington d.c. talking with professors who were also offers. joining us now is professor richard stack his book "grave injusti

foreign relations there are a lot of people i should mention but a senior editor of cambridge university press who got the transcript to say yes, we will publish this. [applause] i should add, i know there many of you in this audience that no longer read books on paper and i will be happy to use sign your candle if you have it with you. [laughter] -- amazon can do if you have it with you. why did i write this book? there is an explanation for much of this history of the bush and administration policy had changed over eight years and it did change. the story of these events from 9/11 with the fighting in gaza are important events and i thought the story needs to be told and nobody else will tell that other than what has been written of their memoirs they are covering the entire world and with domestic policy as well i thought if i don't do it nobody will. in addition there are too many good stories. if you think of the personalities personalities, bush, cheney, powell, rice, olmert, a sharon, these stories deserve to be told. i wanted to try to shed light on how decisions are made rightly or so

i contacted the university of hawaii press because when i taught there -- he was born in hawaii. we figured with the hawaii theme, they might like it. then we were thinking about it, and i said let me find a local publisher, because my dream was that he would actually not just write a book, but he would get to do all the things we discussed earlier like design the cover. so i found a local publishing company, and that local angle we really thought was important. so, you know, go online and find out if there's any publishers in the area. go to the miami book fair, go to your local library, call your local university and talk to an english professor or a professor that writes, thicks of that effect -- things of that effect. you had the order earlier. >> i was wondering, you're talking about publishing and spreading the word around about your book in this area. but the first thing i thought about was the storm of -- [inaudible] that affected -- >> yeah. >> are the people and the children up there. >> yeah. >> i think that would be a perfect contact to identify with the storm that th

of course, now we're here with our hot-off-the press book, debating same-sex marriage, oxford university press, so let me just start with you and maybe you could share with me, again, and with the viewers here, what's the best three minute case for gay marriage? >> well, to keep it very simple, i think relationships are good for people. marriage is good for relationships. some of our fellow citizens are gay. when i say that relationships "are good for people," not just because they make people happy, although, that's an important part of it. we all want to live happily ever after as it were, but there's something about having someone to come home to at night, wake up with in the morning, share joys and sorrows with, be committed to, and make sacrifices for, the reason relationships are good for people is they make us better people. i'm a better person because of my, you know, ten-year plus relationship with my partner, mark. when i say "marriage is good for relationships," that's because commitment is good for relationships, but, also, marriage ties us into the larger community in a certain wa

but i'll mention one other before i start and that's louis bateman, senior editor of cambridge university press, who got this type script and said, yes, we're going to publish this. [applause] so grateful to him. i should add i know that there are many of you in this audience and if any audience who no longer read books on paper, and i will, actually, be happy to sign your kindle if you have it with you. [laughter] why did i write this book? roger has really given some of the explanation, or much of it. the story of bush administration policy as it changed over eight years -- and it did change -- the story of these events from 9/11, the death of arafat to the lebanon war, the fighting in gaza, these are important events, and i thought the stories need to be told, and no one else is going to tell them. president bush, vice president cheney, secretary rice have written their memoirs, and they don't have much of this because they're covering the entire world and, in the case of the president and vice president, domestic policy as well. so i thought if i don't do it, no one is going to do it. and i

a book of poetry and a book of prose called "stealing history" which is published by trinity university press. it's about 300-some pages. 85 short sections. they're not... well, they're essay-like and almost like prose poems some of them. since i've published this book, i counted the other day, i have 63 new poems. >> brown: you're certainly not slowing down. >> i'm speeding up. (laughing). >> brown: in a sense of urgency? or just happening? >> just joy. brown: just joy. joy and sorrow, of course. they go together. don't they? >> brown: i guess so. and it's just what i do. i have another poem again that's a recent poem. i don't have it with me. i don't think it's in here. it's called "the mule." i think of myself as a mule with blinders or blinded. some of them they actually... they went in a circle pushing against a stone grinding corn, grinding wheat. only i make poems so i'm a mule. >> brown: (laughing). that was the metaphor i used in that poem. >> brown: all right. well, the honored book is for the early collected poems, 1965-1992. the new book is "in beauty bright." mr. stern, nice to t

the president of the university held a press conference and he said he supports pernetti's decision to resign and called pernetti a standup guy. when asked about whether he would resign, he said that that decision is up to the board of governors. that's what we had to say. >> i consider resaoeuping every single day when i wake up, because let's be honest, i don't have a contract here. my contract says what i can do and it says that every day i serve at the discretion of the board. there is no term to my contract. >> reporter: he said when the video was first brought to the university officials he did not ask to see the video, and he said that is a decision he regrets and he saw it for the first time to tuesday, and he is facing growing pressure from the lbgt community, and some are calling for his resignation. >> thank you for that, pamela. >>> profootball may be reaching a landmark moments. one of the most outspoken advocate for gay rights, he says as many as four gay players are considering coming out publicly on the same day. he spoke to anderson cooper four days after he was cut. >

darling is headed to howard university, the first visit to an historically black college or university. press he'll focus on civil liberties. joining me a senior at howard university and director of political and external affairs for the association. welcome. >> thanks for having me today. >> just give me a sense of, you know, what the sentiment is on campus about rand paul's visit. >> well, there's two different sides to the sentiment. people that are skeptical of the republican party, you know, people of african descent are leaning toward the democratic party. but you also have the people excited and curious on what exactly rand paul's going to talk about today or senator paul. >> i was going to talk about you what do you want rand paul to talk about? >> well, our student government has been heavily involved with attacking the war on drugs and we want to talk to him about that. we understand that the whole fiscal conservatives are very concerned with those movements, as well. >> we often hear that ron paul, rand paul's father had many, many young people supporting him. do you sense that ran

cambridge university press, american university professor, jennifer lawless is the author.ociety of american business and editors spring conference continues friday morning at george washington university. >> whirs to predict ability? but are the assurances that this committee in the senate has as to where you'll be given the background of the history? >> as a teenager and into my early 20s i was a socialist. had he seems to indicate findability. winston churchill as his anemones in a socialist adverse party. after his party has now had. and i think that kind of evolution is very common in people. >> those two characters used all, you had two trains passing in the night. one of the toughest, hardest senators to lobby on anything, let alone supreme court nominees. he was smarter than rehnquist in a lot of ways. he wrote the book and so years these two guys needed in pakistan like few trains and coming together on anything. >> on her book, "the secretary: a journey with hillary clinton from beirut to the heart of american power." she's interviewed by "daily caller" editor jam

: in "becoming a candidate" political ambition and the decision to run for office" cambridge university press american university professor jennifer lawless is the author. >> where is the predictability? what are the assurances that this committee and the senate has where you will be given in the background and the history? >> as a teenager in my early twenties was a socialist party seems to indicate fundamental instability because as churchill i said -- i think said any man who is not a socialist before he is 40 has no heart and afterwards has no head. that evolution is very common in people. [laughter] >> those two characters that you saw coming into trains passing in the night. the toughest hardest senator to lobby for anything but work on either hand was the brilliant and was smaller then ran question know lots of ways. and he taught antitrust law and wrote the book at yale. here are these guys are meeting but passing and never came together on anything. >> host: where we should begin is to talk a little bit about your biography. as much as this is about hillary clinton and her time as se

according to the american press university more people leave the sun resolves around the earth and moreitches are real. i guess this is what body that represents less people than the people that they represent. they can get hopped up at 3:00 a.m. and go online to buy a gun. the same way i buy things like t 90 x. let's hope that they use their guns more often than i use p 90 x, which is to say never. i'm done talking now. >> michael: brett erlich proving that it really does in the end help to be able to laugh. so thanks, brett. i don't have words that are sufficient in wrapping up this sad and confusing week. we saw the horror in boston, the tragedy in texas and the frustration of not being able to do right by gun victims. the most appropriate words to leave you with are those of eight-year-old martin richard who lost his life senselessly on monday. no more hurting people. peace, peace to all of you. have a great week, everybody. compelling true stories. music marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. way inside. (christoff) we're pat

book by paul starr, brilliant author, reasonable remedy and reaction published in 2011, yale university press he invents a term called the protected public. those people are well covered under their employer provided insurance and don't want anything to change. why, i don't think there's no template out when the 49%, is because the affordable care act isn't any one thing. it's a set of layers of things. so if you're covered on your employer, you'r you are encourao continue the coverage but if you're covered under buying into insurance via these to help their exchanges are at the state level, supposedly at the state level, your notice of consumers with a different set of interested if you're covered by medicaid, you're still another, and soul. so you cannot imagine a uniform population rising up under one boehner and defending the afford with direct because the affordable care act is many different things under one umbrella. >> i would say the 49% won't wise up because if you're thinking of the 49 for the 47% or whatever romney referred to as the people who don't pay any income tax, because a

press. >> he was teaching at haraat university when the taliban arrived. >> you have to put taliban on your head and i don't believe this. >> rather than follow the apprentice regulations in stated by the taliban, he left the university on his own terms to make for things to below over. >> imprisonment and physical punishment were not uncommon. >> some people paid the ultimate price. >> that was professor and his colleagues. once approximate a time, they actually enjoyed a good environment in 1986 the country had its first newspaper and in 1995, its first legislation guaranteeing freedom of the press. >> from 1979 to 1992, the country fell under sovietviet influence. >> they were, for example, you were not allowed to read english texts, you were not allowed to go into the details of some political issue, not allowed to talk about politics, real iblg religion, and tv and music were seen as corrupt. >> the taliban went so far as to destroy television sets. >> anybody found with one risked jail or floging. >> my intention was to grow up any way, to take advantage of that kind of information an

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. as the associated press put it tonight the north korean army is warning washington that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using, quote, smaller and diversified nuclear weapons. further, north korea says its troops have been authorized to counter u.s. aggression. today the u.s. defense secretary said this danger is real and clear and this is certainly another escalation as analysts in this country try to figure out what this young north korean leader is up to. we have two reports to start off tonight. andrea mitchell standing by in washington. we'll want to begin with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel in seoul, south korea. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. as north korea made what appears to be its most explicit threats so far, the united states said it is sending an advanced anti-ballistic missile system to guam in the pacific. responsibility for what happens next, according to north korea, sits with the united states. north korea's military declared today it

university today. so far, officials they are staying tight-lipped. there is a press conference at 1:00 today at rutgers university, so we hope to learn more then. but right now, according to espn and other reports, a decision was reached thursday that tim pernetti, the athletic director at rutgers will go as well. per nettie took responsibility for the decision back in december to suspend mike rice after he became aware of the video that we saw. and that video was released to the public on tuesday. from there there was major public outrage that rice wasn't fired. of course we learned on wednesday that rice was fired. we also learned, as you mentioned, that the assistant basketball coach, jimmy martelli, resigned on the heels of rice's firing. again, we are hoping to learn more at this 1:00 press conference, but that is what we know right now. >> so i'm just getting some updated information here, pamela. i'm getting it as we speak, and that is the university is either trying to get ahead of this or catch up to this, has announced that they're going to give a full publ

i have this new book out from yale university press, and the title to give you a little bit of an idea of where i'm coming from is the party's first is the people, yet it has a subtitle. parties versus the people doesn't sound really terribly exciting what people usually get most entranced by is the subtitle of the book the book started with an article in the atlantic magazine coming and the subtitle they put on the article is now the subtitle of the book is called how to turn republicans and democrats in two americans. and when i first heard that it sounds pretty harsh, and the others said did you read one you wrote? and so where i am coming from and the talk that we just heard, one of the authors talking about the issues talked about structural questions. i actually talk about it as systemic issues. when i left congress i was there 16 years and a member of the republican leadership in the house coming and then i left and i went to teach and i taught at harvard for 11 years ended in princeton and one of the things that happens when you teach is you have a chance to step back from the

analyze how the health system has resisted reform is a book by paul starr published in 2011 at the university press. he invented the term called protect the public so one of the major impediments to reform are those people that are covered under their employers provide insurance or under medicare and don't want anything to change. why? i don't think your scenario can play on the 49% like the medicare population is because the affordable care act isn't any one thing. it is a set of things so if you are covered under your employer, if you are covered under buying into insurance in the new health care exchanges created the state level, another set of consumers with a different set of interest. if you are those covered by medicaid you are still on another set and so on. say you cannot imagine a uniform population rising under the one banner and defending the affordable care act because in fact the affordable care act is many different things under one umbrella. >> of the 49% won't rise up because if you are thinking for the 49 north 47% or whatever referred to as the people who don't pay any income tax

co-authored marijuana legalization, what everyone needs to know, which was published by oxford university press and i really wanted this to be a raucous debate, but we don't really have any anti people here, so i'm thinking beau because he's neutral on this, he can kind of play the foil to these two stoners over here. [laughter] >> in a good way. >> medicated individuals, excuse me. [laughter] doug fine is on the far left, he's a comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author and solar-powered goat herder. he has reported for "the washington post," wired, salon, new york times, outside and national public radio and has appeared on the tonight show with jay leno and conan o'brien's show. he's author of three books including the one he's here for "too high to fail: cannabis and the any economic green revolution." and mark, to my left s the author of four previous novels, and the nonfiction book he is here to discuss, "heart of dankness." [laughter] his work has appeared in the l.a. times, the los angeles review of books and vulture. so i wanted to start with doug. you spent a lot of time if

. >> doctors held a press conference at tufts university where nbc's kerry sanders joins us now, what'she latest from your end? >> well i think we can tell you about one particular story that sort of describes the ordeal that so many patients are having to deal with. these are victims. let me tell you about lee anne and her husband, nick yahne. they were here to participate in cheering on a friend, they were right there at the finish line. when the bomb exploded, that first one, it sent shrapnel in a 360 degrees, and one of the ball bearings came out and hit lee anne in the left leg. it went through her leg, broke her femur and caused the open wound to begin bleeding out. right as she was laying there on the ground. her husband, nick, was nearby. but the concussion of the explosion caused him to momentarily go deaf. so he said it was sort of silent as he was looking around for his wife. as she was laying there, they were eventually -- >> that was kerry sanders live in boston. we're just getting in some developing news right now. an official of wisconsin's carroll university tells nbc ne

university basketball scandal. according to the associated press, the fbi is now investigating whether the man who released the infamous practice videos to espn tried to shake down the university for money to keep the story quiet. the man is eric murdock. the school's former player development director. he left his job last year and reportedly asked for $950,000 to settle employment issues. but on friday, he filed a lawsuit claiming rutgers fired him for bringing coach mike rice's behavior to light. meanwhile, the school announced its commissioning an independent investigation into the whole matter. of course, rutgers fired rice last week, a couple of days later, the athletic director temper netty resigned. -- flights are on time more often and airlines are keeping better track of all of our bags. a new study shows we are still getting more frustrated about flying. researchers at two universities purdue and wichita state released. complaints skyrocket skyrocketed even the airlines second best results last year. flightsy on time most of the time and more bags ended up in the right places so why all the complaints? well

a professor at brandeis university came up with this. the most pro-communist press in the 1930s, outside of the soviet union, or inside the united states, was the yiddish press. jews took a new religion as a substitute for judaism, and that was, you name it, feminism, environmentalism, marxism, socialism. and for some, even communism. but jews love. is jews are toisms what it tallans for opera. they create new moms and every one will make this great world, and instead of using the religion that came with being jewish, and it's a very sad development to me. >> host: still the best hope. published by harper collins. nancy, in georgia, go ahead. >> caller: hi everybody and thanks for being here. hello, mr. prager. this is the first time unfortunately i have ever heard you name. >> guest: where do you live? >> caller: south of atlanta in georgia. >> guest: i'm not in atlanta every day for the years. >> i shall have to check you out. i'm a christian whose mentor is my radical red print guy and those are the words i go by. i am neither left oright. i find both are cast in

even on universal back ground checks. >> in america, there are very few issues that are 90/10 issues. very few. i would be hard pressed. making sure that if you want to own a gun and purchase a gun, that you must have a background check in this country has near universal support. and at the end of the day, republican lawmakers shouldn't be listening to the dollar signs that are coming through their campaign accounts from the nra. and the nra itself in the report that they issued today, demonstrates once again how tone deaf they are from the week after newtown when they rolled out the outline of their proposal to arm schools to the teeth instead of to make sure that we can reduce gun violence with common sense reform like universal back ground checks. limiting high capacity magazines and banning assault weapons. which has more than 70 to 90% support. >> what do you believe will pass? it too early to tell. what president obama will do tomorrow and continue to do with vice president biden as the responsible organizations that support reducing gun violence are doing, make sure that we encourage the american people to reac

you heard the coach mention it there, one of the reporters asked him about it in the press conference, rutgers university basketball coach mike rice speaks out. this is the first time that we're hearing from him since the video to was released showing him abusing players physically and verbally at practice. he was fired this morning. >> as i stated three months ago, after i watched the video how -- how deeply regrettable those action actions. i also stated i was going to try to work on changing and i think i've accomplished a lot of that. can't say anything right now except i'm sorry and there will never be a time where i'm going to use any of that as an excuse. there won't be any excuse. i've let so many people down. my players, my administration, rutgers university, the fans, my family, who is sitting in their house huddled around because of the fact that their father is an -- was an embarrassment to them. and it is troubling, but i will -- at some time maybe i'll try to explain it, but right now there is no explanation for what is on the films because there is no excuse for it. i was wrong. and i want

pressing charges. the fact that rutgers is a state university is part of the reason governor christie got involved.suspended earlier in the year and they were forced to retract. >> we appreciate you being with us. thank you very much. >>> thank you, my man. >> forget selling airline tickets by the seat. how about the pound. samoa airline kicking off a policy based on the weight of passengers and bags. that's great if you're thin. what about heavier flyers? our legal eagles are here to weigh in. i hate puns. recognize ca rosewood land and randy zellen are here. first randy, you don't think this is right. go. >> it's terrible. at first it seems laughable but we need to be sensitive and recognize what we're saying. we're saying, you're fat, you should be treated differently. i think that's discrimination. plus it doesn't make sense because, for example, when a plane is going to encounter bad weather, they put more fuel on the plane. as much as one ton of fuel. that's a lot more than the extra weight of passengers. so it doesn't make sense even from a flying standpoint. >> it's discriminatory, illegal

press correspondent association. >> i was taking my daughter to the university of virginia for a school visit.e been to 20 of them. 15 i was drunk and they were fine. then i sobered up and looked at what was going on. it is too crowded and everybody is dropping names. every table is supposed to have a famous person there. eve game brings somebody from the wwf. >> we had kimberly as the famous person at our table. after the thing everybody scatters, the whole room scatters. >> do you steal their wallets ? >> no, but i ate president obama's dessert. >> one more thing is up next. >> greg: one more thing, bob? >> bob: in honor of greg focusing about the people who did the bombing in boston. focus on one of the people who about injured and what she and her boyfriend had who-to-say about one of great people in america president obama had gone in to visit them. >> i expected him to have a presence, and even with that expectation, he blue it -- blew it away. his speech was very inspiring. he spoke to a group of victims and their family and friend. >> compassionate. sincere. it was -- i felt like that

press correspondent association. >> i was taking my daughter to the university of virginia for a school visit.e been to 20 of them. 15 i was drunk and they were fine. then i sobered up and looked at what was going on. it is too crowded and everybody is dropping names. every table is supposed to have a famous person there. eve game brings somebody from the wwf. >> we had kimberly as the famous person at our table. after the thing everybody scatters, the whole room scatters. >> do you steal their wallets ? >> no, but i ate president obama's dessert. >> one more thing is up next. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. . ht away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or otr mental health proems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop taking chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you

the state department spokesperson said at the press conference about respecting inmates rights doesn't have had suz a professor at the seton hall university school of law respectability and represented a number of gun to the inmates he says it'll be some time before the strike achieves anything forced the u.s. to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have an effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a mo and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact in jail and i think it's very difficult to. be able to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so this is all to live here in moscow more news after this short break. that's a meteorite only. ten thousand tons per told through space towards russia. with the power. of a nuclear. city open s

press conference about respecting inmates rights. jonathan have hits who's a professor at the seton hall university school of law and represented a number of guantanamo inmates says it will be some time before the strike achieves anything i think the more pressure may force the us to respond it may not come right away but i think that the pressure triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think may have an effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what zach want on a mo and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact in jail and i think it's very difficult to. be able to justify this when you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. an oil spill has swamped a small town in arkansas or in america sparking fears for the health of local residents find out on r.t. don't calm white the state's attorney general spoke of the area as a scene out of the wa

one university's basketball mess gets bigger. the "associated press" reporting now that according to a source close to the decision rutgers athletics director tim perneti is out ofter the decision to fire the head basketball coach mike rice on wednesday e. was ousted after this video surfaced showing him using anti-gay slurs, shoving players and throwing balls at them in practice. the athletic director was accused of not punishing rice enough when he heard of the abuse. they will hold a press conference 1:00pm eastern time about an hour and a half from now. jenna: breaking news out of north korea today. britain and russia are told to consider evacuating their embassies in pyongyang as north korea claims it won't be able to guarantee the safety of diplomats after april 10th. we are also getting reports that two medium-range missiles are loaded onto launchers on north korea's east coast and are ready to be launched. big question about is it a test or something leer than that. john bolton is a form u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor.

pressed not to do the right thing. common sense proposal here. universal background check.e want to make sure that felons don't get guns. and people of domestic violence don't get guns. and people that are a threat to themselves or others shouldn't have access to guns. we have got to get sensible about gun violence prevention in this country. >> congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for joining us. >>> anita mcbride served as chief of staff to first lady laura bush. thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> we are awaiting this event in chicago. the first lady is expected to give remarks, commenting on the gun violence throughout the country, but also certainly in the city of chicago, who are hometown. and valley, the white house senior adviser, said that this speech is very personal for the first lady. i want to hear a perspective of having worked with the first lady laura bush, what this means when we have a first lady who steps out on a limb, on a controversial issue. but one that equally emotional. >> it is very emotional. of course it is very pe

no longer sustainable for the university which i attended and where a piece of me will always remain. so of course we hope to learn more about this decision when this press conference begins here, suzanne, in just about 15 minutes from now. but of course this is at least the third casualty after the release of the video showing head basketball coach mike rice hitting, grabbing, kicking his players and using gay slurs. if that happened -- that video was released tuesday, wednesday less than 24 hours later we find out mike rice is fired. and also you mentioned that the assistant basketball coach resigned. and now we are learning, suzanne, it appears that athletic director tim perneti is resigning. he's been with the university since 2009. he is credited with being instrumental in moving rutgers from the big east to the big ten. this happened -- those negotiations happened during the same time that he was made aware of the video showing mike rice's behavior and made that decision in december that rice would be suspended and not fired. some sports analysts believe that perhaps the negotiations may have played a factor in that decision. of course we hope to l

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press conference. it's it's not true, and did he not do everything that the university told him.s entrenchinged at ucla now but these stories, i don't think they should go away. >> cenk: and here are two guys who loves sports, but the reasons and how much importance you give to sports as opposed to the real issues in the world. take sexual assault and abuse far more seriously than we've seen administrations take it at the college level. when we come back, we have the protection action where they cannot be sued for certain things. it looks like the obama administration, and liberals are mad about it, now the the battle is now joined. the tea party is mad about it. >> more than 250,000 people have signed a petition to president obama. [ ♪ music ♪ ] rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >

we also have word now from rutgers university, they have not confirmed that but they will have a pressuss intercollegiate athletics at rut -- rutgers this afternoon. he was aware of videos for several months. looked like he had cover, that the president of the university was standing by him. it appears he is stepping down according to ap. we'll show you the news conference coming up at 1:00 p.m. today. bill: a major ruling will lift restrictions on a controversial contraceptive drug. a federal judge ordered the fda to make the morning-after pill available without prescription. julie banderas is live with the story in our newsroom. good morn, julie. >> this is controversial ruling. if they are old enough to reproduce they are old enough to get the morning-after pill without prescription, you just said it. a federal judge in brooklyn told the food and drug administration in a ruling this morning. this is big win for reproductive rights groups who filed a lawsuit. now that lawsuit is seeking to remove the fda's age and other restrictions on emergency contraception pills like, plan b, one-

university. it's 27-2 in terms of liberal identification. so that's there in washington. the odd thing is, sean, the president thinks he's getting a tough time from the presshould talk to george w. bush, dan quayle, dick cheney, they will tell him what a tough time from the press is. >> i was surprised by a former education secretary writing a book "is college worth it." >> maybe, maybe not. we have some of the greatest colleges and universities. but at the same time it is true that many students go to college, spend 15 to $50,000 a year in tuition, halfway through half of them drop out, about 46% drop out. when they graduate, the class of 2011, for example, half of them are unemployed and half of that half is underemployed and they got a lot of debt. you have heard about the debt. it's now $1 trillion. the other thing is, when we measure it, and universities don't like us to measure it, they would prefer us to just work on the elementary and secondary schools, when we measure it, it does not seem that that much learning goes on in higher education. it's a shock to -- >> a lot of drinking though. >> a lot of drinking and shacking up. >> and games and thing

the tape, he told the university's athletic director "you need to get rid of this coach and get rid of him right away." christie was clear about his feelings about coach rice at a pressonference monday. >> you have lots of successful coaches in this country at the college level that don't act this way. lots and lots have been successful. yet they don't conduct themselves like animals. and, you know, one of my questions to folks was what parent would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after this video? >> mentioned the fbi is doing their investigation, christie announced he would not launch his own probe into the incident but ultimately he's defending the rutgers president handling of the situation. >> i think he showed leadership. if you wanted to define leadership as having ask to see the video, he made a mistake. it's not a fireable offense. when he knew the gravity of the situation, had is when he saw the videotape on tuesday morning, he took action from there. coach rice was fired the next morning. pretty good work for 72 hours. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," live from washington, d.c., president obama

university thrown off campus. wait until you hear this story. also tonight, bernie goldberg on how the press covered margaret thatcher and adam carolla on angry airline passengers. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. margaret thatcher and president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the 87-year-old former prime minister of great britain died last night from a stroke. as you may know, she along with president ronald reagan defined conservative politics in the 1980s. lady thatcher is a legend in conservative circles. her accomplishments are many, but she was always very controversial figure in her own country and here in america. because the british press and the american media are liberal and always have been. for younger viewers, margaret thatcher was a plain spoken woman who did not suffer fools. >> what the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich. that way you will never create the wealth for better

do you think it's risky for him politically to keep pressing this if nothing greater than universal background checks can get passed? >> you know, i don't think it's risky for the president. universal background checks is his best hope. he's not going to get more than universal background checks. so it doesn't hurt him politically to be stumping for this issue. this is something that the president has continued to say. newtown was one of the worst days of his presidency. he cares deeply about this issue. it's a little politically vul they aer inable for some of the democrats up for re-election. some people in montana, in arkansas, it may be a risky negotiation to keep pushing on this issue. but for the president i think this is something he holds dear and he's going to keep pushing on. >> i want to thank you both so much for your time. we appreciate that. we're going to go back to jim maceda. i know we had a mess there with the satellite picture but let's go back to jim maceda in seoul, south korea, for us. good evening your time. it feels every day we're a little closer to military conflict.

university of massachusetts near dartmouth. authorities would not say what they are looking for. one f.b.i. source told the associated press that investigators are searching for and i quote for everything imaginable . coming under scutiny is the mother of the bombers, 18 months before the attack herself and her son were put on the list of terrorist ties. she said her two boys were innocent. 19 year old dzhokhar tsarnaev spent his first night in the federal medical center. he was relocated from beth israel where many of the blasts victims are treated some what uncomfortable as being in the same facility as the attacker. the new location is more secure. financial help is on the way for many of those injured in the blast. a fund called the one fund has amassed 26 million dollars in contributions it is expected that some of those checks will be distributed to those who need the money by the end of june. this evening uma, a special benefit concert will take place here. the boston city singers will be participating andhe members of the choir martin richards who was one of the three people killed in the explosion. >> it is it a m

he is heading toward the microphone to give his own press briefing and generally say to the people of boston that we will get through this. the universal sports, another arm of this company, the universal sports coverage that was up there in a production trailer not far from the finish line. he heard the first concussion and saw the second and right now, in that city, with the subway shutdown and so many streets for such a wide area being shut down, the governor's morning to stay home, they must have no other choice. >> that's true. that area where the marathon was running has been evacuated for quite a wide radius. hotel,ere we are at our there's a large crowd of people in the lobby because they have no place else to go right now. a lot of family members are concerned because at the time this happened, there was another two hours for the runners to complete the course. all lot of runners were still on the course when the explosions happened. so their family members don't really know where their family is because there is very sparse cellphone connections and a lot of the runners were not carrying a cell phone. other odd part is people