so go back to that wellesley's speech. you pointed out the troubles in the world with a great sense of hope as you mentioned that something different has happened to america that has never happened before so those principles of democracy are at risk. and the royal printer's yes and how dewy move forward with less division and kindness?. >> been thinking hard about this the was the first student speaker 1969 and i spoke at the wellesley graduation last weekend. i went back to read this speech from 1969 and by a thought hard what i wanted to say to the graduates but also the of broader world. the bottom line is i am hopeful but i think pope needs to be linked to a strategy to deal with what we're facing. summit that is very personal as you mentioned clinton this that is a much overlooked attribute and the shelling kindnesses and support for one another and still second what happened in portland with the two young men coming to the rescue of those young women who were being consulted and -- and so divided that a rights on the

clergyman or a churchgoer sitting in the pews oregon hbcu talking to students or whether you are at wellesley or amherst talking to members of the black dude there you were going to get three very different reactions. it really does just depend on the audience. again it depends. if you are speaking to people sympathetic to the naacp's point of view and their method of trying to help then you are going to get a negative response because a lot of what i write about makes a lot of what they naacp is talking about arrival and in perhaps its existence irrelevant. it's a problem facing blacks that are not primarily racism per se. there's not much use for that to continue saying things they want to say. they are going to be out there advocating against charter schools, they are doing more harm than good. they are actually doing harm so it's going to vary. michael goodwin. >> thank you jason. the question about president obama, your comment about bloc voting and for example with the teachers union a think as well said. the feeling i suspect he had in his campaign was where are they going to go, the b

and then a few years ago one of the trustees of wellesley college got it donated from the college to the museum here, and it has held a place of pride ever since. one of the tools that general john j. pershing had at his disposal was one of the first tanks developed during the war. they were used on a limited basis in 196, but by 1917 they came into their own. the french two-man tank behind me, called the ft-17 for its production year, it was one of the main battle tanks used by the americans during the latter year of the war, especially in 1918 at the battle of zargon. it is interesting when you think about the people that came out of the war that became part of our society after world war i, of course pershing, but the tank commander of the american tank force who developed it, his name was george s. patton and became famous for the next war that followed. there was also a fellow training american foot in pennsylvania in the operation of tanks, and his name was dwight eisenhower. captain eisenhower was also involved in the use of tanks during world war i. the 37 millimeter gun that

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church goers sitting in pews, whether you're at an hbcu talking to students or whether you're at wellesley talking to members of the black student union there, you're going to get three really different reactions. so it really does just depend on the audience, i would say. >> [inaudible] >> again, it depends. if you are speaking to people sympathetic to the naacp's point of view and their methods of trying to help blacks, then you're going to get a negative response. because a lot of what i write about makes a lot of what the naacp is talking about irrelevant. perhaps even its existence today irrelevance. if the problems facing blacks today are not primarily racial barriers or racism per se, then there's not much use for an organization like that to continue saying the things they want to say. and to the extent that they're going to be out there advocating against, say, charter schools -- which they recently did -- they're doing more harm than good. they're not just being different, they're actually doing harm. so it's going to vary. it's going to vary. >> okay. i just want to make sure --

if you're a women's studies major at wellesley, steve bannon is not going to be your cup of tea, butyou're a big shot new york developer like trump is, then steve bannon speaks your language, and he had experience around people like ted turner and michael ovitz when he met him back in 2011, 2012 in a way that other people who knew trump didn't. >> he focuses on narrative truth rather than factual truth. >> there is a great quote from one of bannon's ex-employees, a guy named ben shapiro. had a falling out with him and left. but he really put his finger on t. he said bannon's allegiance is to narrative truth, not to actual truth. >> the actual facts. >> exactly. >> as long as you get this sort of narrative. >> the narrative, the attitude and that's really what bannon and breitbart were all about. that's true of trump also, and i think trump saw in bannon a guy who had a clear and coherent set of politics that meshed with trump's own impulses. a lot of times i think bannon may be the only guy in the white house who has a true north star. trump doesn't always follow his lead, doesn't do

ain't nothing but a g thing." [ laughter and applause ] i saw that hillary clinton told graduates at wellesleyge that after losing the election, she had time to organize her closets. [ laughter ] which is a coincidence because trump's been cleaning out his cabinet. [ laughter ] >> steve: really? hey oh! >> jimmy: yeah, you're fired. you're fired. >> steve: wall. >> jimmy: did you see this video? this dad went to go pick up his son on the last day of school, and he decided to be as embarrassing as possible. check this out. >> jimmy: that's the dad. >> dad! dad! [ yelling ] [ beeping horn ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: isn't that great? [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: a man after my own heart. >> jimmy: the kid says he'll never forget that moment, while the dad says that's the last time he takes ambien. and -- [ laughter and applause ] i want to say congrats to lebron james, who just became the nba's all-time leading playoff scorer, ever. yeah. [ cheers and applause ] lebron said that he couldn't have done it without the help of his teammates. then his teammates said, "but you just did." [ cheers an

ain't nothing but a g thing." [ laughter and applause ] i saw that hillary clinton told graduates at wellesley college that after losing the election, she had time to organize her closets. [ laughter ] which is a coincidence because trump's been cleaning out his cabinet. [ laughter ] >> steve: really? hey oh! >> jimmy: yeah, you're fired. you're fired. >> steve: wall. >> jimmy: did you see this video? this dad went to go pick up his son on the last day of school, and he decided to be as embarrassing as possible. check this out. >> jimmy: that's the dad. >> dad! dad! [ yelling ] [ beeping horn ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: isn't that great? [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: a man after my own heart. >> jimmy: the kid says he'll t the dad says that's the last time he takes ambien. and -- [ laughter and applause ] i want to say congrats to lebron james, who just became the nba's all-time leading playoff scorer, ever. [ cheers and applause ] lebron said that he couldn't have done it without the help of his teammates. then his teammates said, "but you just did." [ cheers and applause ] speaking of sport

and is a visiting professor at wellesley college. he's taught at uc berkeley and the university of pennsylvania. he's received fellowships from the macarthur guggenheim sloan and rockefeller foundations and the national endowment for the humanities. he was a visiting scholar at the institute for the advanced stud and the woodrow wilson national center for scholars. in 2007, he was inducted into the american academy of arts and sciences. so please join me now in a warm welcome for professor martin sherwin. [ applause ] okay, thank you, ruth. my mother wrote that int introducti introduction. i hope you liked it. it was more folsom because my father didn't get a chance to edit it. i'm really glad to be here to speak about this topic. i think it's the kind of subject that needs to be reviewed again and again and again because, unfortunately, the nuclear issue is still with us. and it looks like it's going to be with us for a very long time. now, i've had a chance to chat with a few of view. and i know that at least those i chatted with h