george washington university is offering a flexible teaching politics and a master's program but since the path to becoming lobbyists. is this a good think about. talk later tw fourth i can in washington dc i went to france to watch tv. there are the shots heard round the world back in two thousand canberra. they had been fired in eastern baghdad three years earlier. tomorrow marks four years since the video titled collateral murder was made to twenty weeks. in sanchez the killing of words journalist his driver and several companions the american troops in a us apache helicopter spots were insurgents. after the initial shooting in an armed group in a minivan drivers who seem to help the wounded day of fire upon his plow. much has happened in the four years its collateral murder first hit the internets. it is you know neil brings us more from life. sunday the fifth of april marks the four year anniversary of the repealing of the silly and love of murder video. i tweaked the stitches but each in two thousand and seven of eight u s air crew minus sixty been wanting a firefight in mike dod

then jay carney speaking to students at george washington university. then another chance to hear venture capitalists perkins. >> the muslims have accepted the religion of islam. they have never bombed any churches. they have never murdered anyone to girls, as was done in birmingham. they have never lynched anybody. they have never been guilty of initiating any sort of aggressive act of violence. during the entire 33 years or more that mohammed has been teaching. stemsarge of violence from the guilt complex that conscience of most white people in this country. they know that they have been violent. they have had brutality against negroes. they feel that someday the negro will wake up and do want to them as they have done -- do want to the whites as they have done to them. taught by alicia -- elijah mohammed to respect everyone who respects us. we must display courtesy and be polite. we are also taught that if at any time, anyone, in any way us, we areolence on within our religious right to retaliate in self-defense to the maximum degree of possibility.

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to see whitee house press secretary jay carney talking to students at george washington university. on the next washington journal, chicago tribune columnist clarence page talks about politics and the supreme court ruling. columnistndicate terry jeffrey discusses the future of the gop leadership and the divisions between the gop among the tea party activists and establishment figures. deputyfbi and cia director talks about the recent drone strikes that killed dozens of all kind of members -- al qaeda members. we will be looking for your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. washington journal, live at 70 and eastern on c-span -- 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> ira member the first conversation i had with a group of people at that table. it wasn't about where you are from, what your school is like, it is about ukraine. it was about politics, our belief in education and religion. after that moment, i was like, wow, this week is going to be intense. it has been cool to see the evolution of our friends and bonds just talking about politics. we haven't talking abou

white house press secretary jay carney recently spoke to george washington university students about media and public affairs. he is president obama second white house press secretary, replacing robert gibbs. prayer to his appointment, he was director of communications for vice president biden

teach at the george washington university and the school of media and public affairs. we have a lot of students here. my question has to do with net neutrality. i know that all of you are proconsumer. i think we took a vote and anybody would say yes. as a consumer, i don't see what comcast charging netflix for a faster delivery does for me. is ially, what will happen pay comcast, i pay netflix, i am going to be paying more to netflix because they have to pay comcast. i would like to throw that out as an example of where i see men neutrality very important -- net neutrality very important. >> would like to respond? >> one of the issues is really eclipsed. the important thing i would like to say about it is if there was speedyt demand for good, service for your particular bits, the market will need it. what i see it the most is the area of public safety where there is a need for those bits to get there. i have an interest in paying more to the underlying isp. i don't think there is anything wrong with that. if you see it blocking and discrimination for competitor purpose

they were part of an pael discussion i moderated at george washington university. >> the united statese imf's biggest shareholder, biggest member, founding member, and one that has the biggest voice, that has a veto right, and which is why it is stopping the reform that was decided unanimously in 2010 from happening. and i don't understand why that is, because the u.s. under the reform would keep its veto, would continue to be the leader in the organization, would shift money from one line to the other, and make the fund more secure, safer, endowed with deeper resources to, for instance, help out a country like ukraine urgently and with significant resources, so i hope it happens soon so that the fund can continue to represent properly the entire membership of the imf including the united states. >> you can watch the rest of that discussion sunday at 7:00 pm eastern on "real money." you know the saying go big or go home. well starting next week, we're going big. this program will expand from a half hour to a full hour five nights a week. we're rolling out a week-long series focused on

professor leo riffo of george washington university has written about the car and the era. manipulative advertising, suggesting that an automobile represents youstatus and your personality -- it's not just a way to get around -- aided the appeal. and of course, the possibility that you could trade in your old car and buy a chevy on time made it much more possible for gm to challenge ford. they had better looks and convenience, yes. well, what more is there in life than those two things? william knudsen, who headed the chevrolet division, who had worked for ford, recognized that there was a stigma, as he put it, in using cheap goods that look cheap. there would be an opportunity to sell the chevrolet by making it look a little classier than the model t. the chevy wouldn't look cheap as the model t was beginning to do. the chevy would make you proud, make you stand out! schoumher: for a while, henry ford stood his ground with the model t. the man whose name meant efficiency around the world couldn't believe that americans could choose gm's style over ford's substance. he said

the white house press secretary jay carney talks to george washington university students about dealing with the media and public affairs. that is followed by tom perkins on income inequality in the u.s. we now return to the ongoing crisis in ukraine, this time with the help of a eurasia analyst at the foreign-policy initiative. we have been a week removed from an agreement aimed at easing tensions in ukraine. we're are seeing reports of more bloodshed, international monitors being seized over there. is the international community's efforts to de-escalate this crisis working? guest: i think a lot of people have been disappointed in the way this agreement has seemed to fail to quell any of the violence or quell the separatist movement. they seem almost fed up with it. some of the remarks you have seen from the state department, from john kerry himself, they seem to be very disappointed in the way this worked out so far. you mightbe tomorrow see more sanctions that the government of perhaps europe would put on. russia not fulfilling their part of that bargain. host: do headlines like this

obvious it doesn't seem like we have a real dearth of lobbyists here in washington yeah so america as you had pointed out american university has a lobbyist degree already but george washington an infinitely more expensive institution i believe is now now has this as well why are we rolling out study programs for jobs where really you need to learn on the job go work on the hill things like that well first you may want to compete with american which is a fair amount of money and it's lobbying program and secondly we're a city that is all about lobbyist so they may feel like they're sitting out some part of the important part of government study that might be repaired of it but as you said one of the best ways to learn about lobbying would really be to work in the halls of congress and that way you both learn how lobbying works and what people what lobbyists are looking for but also you're making the contacts that lobbying firms have been looking for which is key of course which is one of the biggest industries that lobbyist influence there's actually no industry that lobbyists don't influence whatever it is you care about t

melissa: research done out of washington university and university of illinois.ou know, but they did find that if they're working in a group comprised mostly of women, they're more likely to support and hire. but it is a lone woman out there leading a group and one other woman in the group, they found out they did their study it tends to be harder for other woman in the group. >> was it possible she wasn't making hiring decisions? melissa: they don't explain that. >> they don't explain that. i don't explain it. i think when women hire other women in environments women-friendly the nature of the business or content or depending on the business, just supports -- melissa: is it possible a woman's harder on another woman who is trying to rise up? there was a little bit of that in the tone that came from cheryl samburg's lean in, we need to stop telling women to get a mentor around you will excel. excel and you will get a mentor. >> why? melissa: because she is asked to take on people all the time and she says, why should i? >> i think, one thing to coddle. another th

. >> next, white house press secretary jay carney talking to students at george washington university. inter-capitalist tom perkins on what he calls the demonization of the one percent. see formernce to secretary of state james baker and vernon jordan speaking at the funeral for robert strauss. >> what we're seeing right now where we are embedding capabilities more and more into our environment. some technologies disagree on this but i personally consider the smart phones that we all carry around with us or at least 70% of the american population, should be a trademark example of the internet of things. we are becoming human centers because we are caring around an extremely powerful computer in our pocket but it also takes the form of different centers that exist in the physical ward around us -- world around us. we pass underneath when we access ezpass on the new jersey turnpike. it takes the form of sensors that are all around us. certainly, surveillance and cameras that collect data and send that somewhere else. this is all part of the internet of things which is basically the embe

. >> my name is pat and i teach at george washington university. thank you for a great panel and we have students here. talking about net neutrality i know that all if you are pro consumer if we took a vote they but say yes but as a consumer i don't see what comcast charging netflix for a faster delivery does for me? basically what will happen is i pay comcast and netflix i will pay more to netflix because they have to pay comcast. i would like to throw that out as an example where net neutrality is very important to. >> who would like to respond >> with one of the issues of net neutrality it is eclipsed the important thing i would like to say if there is a market demand for could speedy service the market will meet it is so public safety and tell us all the applications were there is a need they haven't interest of the underlying i sp. address competitive purposes that is a different story. there should be an area where government should be acting. case by case? we can debate and forever there watching them on. >> they struck a deal with netflix t

>> at western washington university a school wide questionnaire recently asked how do we make sure that in future years we are not as white as we are today? as campus reform reports the school's president has been banging on about the lack of diversity for awhile. on the school's website bruce shepherd wrote "in the decades ahead should we be as white as we are today? we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity or become a sad sad dough of ourselves." he seems like a guy who may think in 10 years from now they are as white as they are today, they will have failed as a university and their commitment to meet the critical needs of the state. >> if we 10 years from now are as white was we are -- as we are today we will have failed to meet the critical needs of our state. [applause]. >> now what is he talking about? >> i mean, what a is he talking about? >> i mean what is he talking about? >> what is he talking about? >> i mean, what is he talking about? >> what is he talking about? >> i mean, what a is he talking about? >> what are they talking about? >> i mean what is he talking abou

the joshing washington university center for excellence, and public leadership, thank you for being onhe show. >> thank you for having me. >> that's it for us here, america tonight will air at a special time friday, right after line special on the front lines with the taliban at nine eastern on am al jazeera america, then the american tonight special is at 9:30 be sure to join us then, thank you for watch having a greet night, and more america tonight tomorrow. >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the western audience to know why these people keep on fighting... ...it's so seldom you get that access to the other side. >> faultlines: on the front lines with the taliban then

. >> reporter: there's one uncomfortable message about western washington university from a presidentoday, we'll fail as a university. >> reporter: three-quarters of the university are white and now they're putting the question directly to students in a questionnaire. how do we make sure in future eu years we another as white as we are today. >> when you use the word "white," that does get people's attention. >> reporter: not all the attention is positive. >> i'm not surprised when liberal universities take these ridiculous, bigoted, racist conditions. >> campus police were notified after the president seened threats but university students understand his point. >> i was walking on red square and it felt white, like people were missing. >> reporter: it's still an issue that higher education must face. >> how do we respond to the change character and nature of our nation, the enormous potential that's there that we have not tapped? that's really the issue we faced. >> reporter: only about 20% of western washington's university enrollment is students of color, and shepherd faces challen

the joshing washington university center for excellence, and public leadership, thank you for being on the show. >> thank you for having me. >> that's it for us here, america tonight will air at a special time friday, right after line special on the front lines with the taliban at nine eastern on am al jazeera america, then the american tonight special is at 9:30 be sure to join us then, thank you for watch having a greet night, and more america tonight tomorrow. ♪ hello, and welcome to al jazeera america. storms are hitting parts of the midwest and south right now, more than 40 million people could be effected by severe weather moving through. there have been several reports of tornadoes touching down, we are hearing of one injury but no significant damage so far. authorities have identified the man they say open fire at fort hood texas yesterday, 34-year-old ivan lopez was an iraq war veteran with a recent history of mental health issues. the army says lopez may have argued with another soldier shortly before the attack. six patients have already been released but three others are in

just last month and he media magnet donated $80 million to george washington university for preventative medicine efforts for a host of conditions. >>> this is the 17th year of the milk eninstitute of global conference. they come together to try to solve the world's economic challenges. earlier i had a chance to talk ju min, who is the former deputy governor of the people's bank of china. i asked him about lowered expectations for chai >> stephanie:'s economic growth. >> it is adjusted to 7, 7.5, and that's good news for china and the whole world. [ inaudible ] way high, and to push the rebalancing, drop back from investment [ inaudible ] to consumer driven and also push the [ inaudible ] agenda. you push for the growth and you push for the reform, so i think the chinese have made it very clear they understand the choices, they want to take the gradual growth, [ inaudible ] 7.5, supported by energy efficiency, climate changing, but meanwhile push for the reform agenda and move things forward. >> how do you explain to a western audience's china's attempt to get its consumers to buy more.

the joshing washington university center for excellence, and public leadership, thank you for being on the show. >> thank you for having me. >> that's it for us here, america tonight will air at a special time friday, right after line special on the front lines with the taliban at nine eastern on am al jazeera america, then the american tonight special is at 9:30 be sure to join us then, thank you for watch having a greet night, and more america tonight tomorrow. 34-year-old ivan was an iraq veteran. he may have argued with a soldier before the attack. >> in the hunt for flight mh370. thursday australian officials are conducting subsurface searches for the black box. this is the first time they are going underwater. there are two with ships trying to pinpoint the plane's black box pingers. a speed bump in the mid east process. secretary of state john kerry and parties met on thursday. discussions are continuing, and he's calling on both sides to show leadership and compromise for peace. the obama administration is downplaying a press association into twitter. they secretly financed a s

. >> detecting cancer could be as easy as putting on a pair of glasses at washington university.recognize a dye injected in a patient that shows up bright and growing at cancer sites and a small protein binds specifically to the cells. this helps the suns see where the cancer cells and healthy tissue begin. >> the area that lights up like a weather map with the radar, that is the intense spot where the dye was picked up. >> they are developing a new dy that detects the cells through the body and have been used on ten patients with breast cancer or melanoma. >> youngsters could get an earlier start on education with a big boot for universal preschool. >> more reason to keep a hold on your >>> at san francisco and the bay on good friday, just a few thin clouds and lisa has the easter weekend forecast. >>> the majority of california is in favor of making preschool democrats are pushing to make it a budget priority at a cost of $1.4 billion a year. this is available new for a quarter of those in california that are four but an expansion makes it available to all families would want i

students of washington university in st. louis are them a sit-in to pressure to cut ties with the world's largest coal company. the debate is beginning to make an impact. having the voices of incredible leaders like archbishop desmond tutu only adds to the momentum as we get into the spring. >> some of the institutions have artie taken this step? >> there have been nine colleges that have divested from east to west, san francisco state liberal arts small institutions on the east coast. about 20 cities have made a commitment from san francisco, seattle, the smaller towns across the country. a large group of 17 foundations representing about $1.8 billion have already divested. people have taken up this cause from all sorts of different denominations, taking action. i believe this weekend we will get another good announcement about a well-known college divesting as well. things are picking up speed. we are beginning to see this make an impact. >> professor anderson, talk about the endowment of harvard university, it's significa

next week, headlining the humans to mars summit at george washington university, aimed at promoting whyoration matters. >>> well, down in sunny miami, bunny palooza in full swing with egg hunts, bounce houses in force and, of course, a visit from the easter bunny himself. what will the weather be like for your easter celebration? meteorologist janice dean is joining us now with more on what will be a better forecast. janice? >> thank goodness, uma. much of the country will be quiet. we have our eyes set on the southeast in florida where we have an area of low pressure here. a little wintry mix across the upper midwest and we're seeing some showers blossoming over the southwest. but for easter sunday for the most part, we're not dealing with any major storm systems, which is great news. and the temperatures are seasonal for most. so we're still going to see the potential for some rain across the southeast. there's our little easter bunny, as we match today, how convenient. a few showers across the southwest again. but for the most part, we're dealing with a pretty good forecast for much

complicated issue, and joining me to get through some of it is the head of public affairs at george washington university glad to be here. >> it seems there used to be much more clear rules about these issues, and now, not so much. msnbc in this case this week was getting questions from reporters like me for days about what the rules are. do you think there are any rules at all anymore? >> there are rules, but they seem to drift all over the place and sometimes there are double standards and sometimes they don't matter at all. it used to be very clear. if you came out of government and went into journalism -- first of all, it was hard to do -- and if you did it, you gave up government. or if you went from journalism to government, you probably said to yourself, i'm not going back to journalism. now journalism can mirror all these different things, so the rules are very much -- let's call them situational. >> situational. >> it depends. >> there are five or six examples this week of people on television in these quandaries. and joe scarborough is just one of them. scarborough's is interesting because he's

project at the national security archive, a public interest research center located at george washington universityor of the forthcoming book, "back channel to cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between washington and havana." he recently wrote an article in foreign-policy called, "our man in havana: was usaid planning to overthrow castro?" toer kornbluh, welcome back democracy now! why don't you answer that question. talk about his twitter account and what you have been most surprised by. in the job clearly of trying to bring about regime change in cuba. sendingced a program private contractors in to cuba secretly several years ago to set up satellite communication networks. and now we have found out to this extreme your associated press story that it was trying to set up a secret twitter network that has all the elements of a classic covert operation. it has secret bank accounts, shell companies, multinational platforms in terms of various countries being used -- nicaragua, spain, ireland, london. in the background, a murky office in usaid call the office of transition initiatives, oti, is

crowley, a professor of practice at george washington university. >> hello. >> we have been talking aboutg time. the consensus in the room seemed to be we wouldn't get here. well, we're here. now what? >> i still think that my judgment is that vladimir putin wants to control ukraine but doesn't want to own it. but he is dancing up to a very dangerous line. obviously with the russian complicity, he has unleashed some very interesting and dangerous forces within the country and may make it ungovernorrable. >> the accusation is some forces are actually from russia and the puppeteer is putin and he is getting the cries he wants. anything to back that up? >> the state department over the last few days has released very credible evidence that says there are russian operatives win eastern ukraine, obviously joined by those who have an identity with and sympathy with russia and obviously we saw that play out in crimea. the very narrow path for the government in kiev is how to reassert sovereignty and control over eastern ukraine, obviously did that today with the step at the air base, without giv

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look at george washington university law professor saying we're at a constitutional tipping point becauseuick. richa richard, jackie robinson was a wonderful example. he had far more obstacles than this president and never complained. he was a man of courage. i met with cliven bundy and his wonderful family. i would urge you to investigate this. there's more to this story than meets the eye. there may be greedy capitalism involved here. >> we're out there right now. we're looking into it, and we're going to be all over it next week. i promise you. >> thank you. >> we've been friends for decades. >> thank you. >> coming up, the very latest on the tense standoff in nevada. the rancher and the feds, can they reach a peaceful solution? the very latest when we come back. ich is great... he's using you. he probably has a citi thankyou card and gets 2x the points at restaurants. huh the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on dining out, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards we really you know? take a relaxingjust to unwind.a. but we can only afford one trip this year,

>> yes, and students at universities, washington university in st. louis right now demanding that university sever ties with peabody cole, one of the largest polluters in the world. so there's a rising movement against the fossil fuel industries and demanding leaders take action on climate change. >> woodruff: robert stavins, how much of the responsibility lies with the united states and other developed countries and how much with the developing countries which are now increasing their use of fossil fuels as they expand their economies? >> well, that's a very important issue, and let's not denigrate the american population and assume they're foolish because of their unwillingness to take on actions and costs. we have to recognize, first of all, we're asking a current generation of people in the united states to take on costs or in all countries to take on costs to benefit future generations, because the worst impacts of climate change will be off in the future, not this year or next year. in addition, what you brought up is the global distribution iss

for tonight's green report students at the washington university of st louis are entering their second week of a city in protest in st louis based coal giant peabody energy's role in destroying our environment and destroying local communities according to these students peabody energy is mining operations and sealing county illinois are threatening the large farming community of rocky branch blocking local roads flooding the air with coal dust and by polluting local water sources peabody energy the largest privately owned coal company in america and a member of alec also blocked a st louis ballot initiative which called for that city to end the tax incentives for fossil fuel corporations white people already and to instead invest public money and. and into renewable energy projects washington university students are trying to make it clear that peabody energy is bad news for the environment and for communities but will their protests have any effect on the giant coal companies operations and joining me now for the latest on peabody energy and the washington university students sit in i

that's important to democrats because up until now as this recent george washington university poll shows, 52% of registered likely voters have never heard of the koch brothers. democrats are going to make sure that changes, and new york democratic senator charles schumer said on "morning joe" -- >> they're the ones running these ads almost single-handedly. they've done i lot of batted things in the state. if it's our only strategy, we'll lose. we must have a positive agenda. that's what our fair shot agenda is, but we also have to have a shield that protects us from these ads, and i think the koch brother thing will work. >> here we every with me now to discuss this is eric bowler, and msnbc contributor and washington post opinion writer jonathan kapart. i want to start with you, jonathan, because you did write the piece in the washington post that essentially this is a smart strategy for democrats. flesh that out for us. >> you talked a little bit about it in your setup in talking about how when mitt romney was running for president all the attacks on bain capital and showing how sort o

and joining me now-- patricia mcguire, president of trinity washington university. and from rome, where he's covering this event, john allen is associate editor for the "boston globe." john, welcome back. starting with you. two very different popes known for two very different things. clearly, some zig in putting them -- significance in putting them together in this canonization, right? >> absolutely. one thing you dare never forget about pope francis is beneath the lummable exterior which is real is the mind of an extraordinarily crafty jesuit politician. this is a pope that is very sensitive to the politics he does and i think he is aware that, in the catholic street, pope john xxiii, the father of the second vatican council which launched the church on a course of reform, is a hero to the catholic left, whereas pope john paul ii who battled communism and what he described as a culture of death behind liberalizing currents on abortion and other issues, he is a hero to the catholic right. i think francis worried if either one were canonized individually that that c

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and george washington university is offering a twist on teaching politics a new master's program what students on the path to becoming a lobbyist is that a good thing or a bad thing we'll talk about it later in the show. it's friday april fourth eight pm here in washington d.c. and lindsey france you're watching our team america. they were the shots heard round the world back in two thousand and ten though they've been fired in eastern baghdad three years earlier tomorrow marks four years since the video titled collateral damage rather collateral murder was made public for wiki leaks. through traffic through sixty two on. the right. the footage from the two thousand and seven incident shows the killing of avoiders journalist his driver and several others who american troops in a u.s. helicopter thought were insurgents after the initial shooting an unarmed group in a minivan arrives on the scene to help the wounded they're fired upon as well much as happened in the four years since collateral murder first hits the internet artie's union o'neill brings us more from london. saturday the

mike mochizuiki, associate professor of political science and international affairs at george washington universityit. >> tremendously important. the president was last in japan on his own in 2009, very first time. as president. but this times there's been a lot happening in japan since then. there's been the 2011 disas ters, the political change. and of course now as your piece pointed out the tension with china. so this is a tremendous moment for the japanese people and for the japanese government. >> a tremendous moment, mike. >> yes, a tremendous moment for the japanese people but also very important moment for prime minister abe. last year the prime minister vilsitied the shrine despite repeated warnings by the united states not to advice nature war memorial which the shrine's class a war criminals. and as a result of that, i think mr. abe took a big withdrawal from the trust account that he had with the u.s. president. and so this visit by president obama was a way to restore that trust and i think he was partially successful. >> so how much of an impediment is, we called it his nationalistic

recent george washington university poll found that four in ten people nationwide said they would belikely to vote. much more likely to vote if marijuana legalization was on the ballot. and while you are there to vote for legalizing pot, have you noticed there is a democratic u.s. senator running for re-election. the one, more people turn out to vote the more likely it is he will be re-elected. the only other issue the democrats can count on to work like that for them is raising the minimum wage. raising the minimum wage is one of the issues in the democratic arsenal that turns people out to vote who might not otherwise show up. turns out the minimum wage issue is going to happen on the ballot in alaska this november as well. the republicans led legislature did not act quickly enough on the pot issue and they didn't act quickly enough on the minimum age issue either. both ballots expected to be on the same ballot in which senator mark begich will be running for re-election. both ballot issues are to drive turnout, drive up turnout by people who may not have cared enough to show up to

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