. >> next, "q&a" with william cohan. then, the bbc review of major events in parliament. after that, another chance to see the washington post editor bob woodward lead a discussion on media coverage of national security issues. tomorrow, the heritage foundation hosts a discussion on russian politics and influence including the recent intervention in ukraine and its impact on other countries. heritage will feature foundation expert arielle: and paul goebel. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. ease turn on c-span. >> if you start with the basics, everybody acknowledges that consumers have the right to an antenna, everybody acknowledges the consumer has a right to content for themselves. everybody acknowledges that there is nothing wrong with the combination of an antenna and a vcr, now a dvr. the debate seems to be about where that equipment is located because nobody has appealed the finding of fact, what each individual consumer controls. the antenna actually is dead. until the consumer logs in and constructs the antenna to a particular frequency. each consumer makes their

william cohan, please come on out here. [cheers and applause] all right.ve a ton of time so we're going to get right to it. what do you want deal with first is in the duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite or the corruption of our great universities? >> well, i mean they all go together. that's the point of the book is that they do all go together in ways that, you know, we may not have anticipated when we send our kids off to college thinking they are going to get a great education. >> jon: is that though just reflective after this divide in society as a whole. this idea duke is an enclave of more wealth and more privilege than it's surroundinging town. is it nt a microcosm of a larger issue in the country? >> there's no question that ncaa division i athletes are put on a pedestal in this country. and there's no question we're dealing in realtime. we have the northwestern university football team thinking about unionizing and incredibly some of the alum high in are saying maybe you don't want to do. that the winston story at florida state. whether

captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ >> this week on "q&a," author and duke alum, william cohandiscusses his new book "the price of silence: the duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities." ♪ >> william d. cohan, author of "the price of silence," what does the title mean? >> there's been so much said and written about this case when it first happened. some people think it is in an ironic title. >> you are talking about the duke rape case. >> i am talking about the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. it happened in 2006, march 2006. to april 2007. by the way, it is still ongoing. that is another topic. at the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. everybody was focused. when i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. there was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. i was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. how few people were very happy with the outcome that had been resolved by the attorney

one more question with william cohan. bill cohan, lloyd blankfein.don't talk to him as much as james gorman or jamie dimon. how important is he -- >> the new york times -- "the as aork times" listed him former ceo. but the job is to work with the board and execute and he has not only been a job of that, he has done a great job of running this firm and would have -- what could have been a very perilous time for goldman sachs after 2010 when they were the target of everyone's ire. the centergman, of university of new york, this raises the concerns of a conservative. krugmanto professor about the benefit of conservative thought in america. has done much work for various white house and administrations -- white houses and administrations, and he was talking about any quality. you were squirming in your chair. what did professor krugman get wrong? theou say that this is focus of all problems and it leads you to public policy to improve public policy by going after the rich. this will not improve public policy, this will hurt public policy. you -- if you w

. >> tonight, "q and a" with author william cohan, with his book about the duke lacrosse scandal in 2006. then, a look at major events in british parliament from the last few months. and bob author week on "q&a," and do alone -- duke alum, william cohan, discusses his new book "the price of silence: the duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities." author of thean, price of silence, what to the title mean? >> that her spent so much said and written about this case when it first happened. some people think it is in an ironic title. i am told by the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. 2006, march 2006. it is still ongoing. that is another topic. at the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. everybody was focused. when i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. there was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. i was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. how few people were very happy with the out, that had

guest, author of our william cohan. thank you very much. >> thank you, brian. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q&a" programs are also available at c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] bbc review of major events in parliament. it then "washington post" editor bob woodward leads a discussion on media coverage of national security issues. at 11:00, another chance to see "q&a" with wi-- lliam cohen. on the next "washington previews michael green president obama's trip to asia this week. then kaiser health news correspondent jay hancock looks at how the help in this -- health insurance industry is responding to the national -- affordable care act.

. >> this week on "q&a," author and duke alum, william cohan, discusses his new book "the price of silence the duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities." >> william cohan, author of "the price of silence," what does the title mean? >> there's been so much said and written about this case when it first happened. some people think it is in an ironic title. i am talking about the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. it happened in 2006, march 2006. it is still ongoing. that is another topic. at the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. everybody was focused. when i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. there was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. i was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. how few people were very happy with the out, that had been resolved by the attorney general of north carolina who declared innocent which is a very unusual legal term usually in a court of law, somebody is declar

with william cohan . then another chance to see the bbc review of the major event in parliament. next, a discussion about the difficulties covering national security issues moderated by bob woodward. it is part of the sources and secrets conference held recently at the new york times building. the discussion is 45 minutes. >> do we get a cold start here? i am bob woodward, "the washington post." let me introduce the panel. first, jane mayer, whom i have known forever it seems, worked at "the wall street journal," "the new yorker" for almost 20 years now. many journalism honors, especially for your 2008 look "the dark side." that is one of those titles where you know where you are coming from. we have bob dietz, a distinguished professor of public policy at george mason. he has been the consiglio ari to the intelligence community. did you work for dulles or not? the first cia director. bob was general counsel to the nsa for eight years. amazing. he then was the counselor to the cia director general hayden, for three years. has worked in defense department, state department, and wa

and the author and our guest, william cohan. thank you very much. >> thank you, brian. for having me. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q&a" programs are also available at c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] next, a bbc review of major events in parliament. after that, "washington post" editor bob woodward leads a discussion on media coverage of national security issues. then russian president vladimir putin discussing a range of issues during his annual call-in program. on the next "washington journal, michael green previews president obama's trip to asia this week. then kaiser health news correspondent jay hancock looks at how the help in this -- health insurance industry is responding to the national -- affordable care act. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the british parliament is in recess for the easter holiday. members return to the house of commons on april 28. "westminster in review

and the author and our guest, william cohan.thank you very much. >> thank you, brian. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q&a" programs are also available at c-span podcasts. we should have finished al qaeda in 2001. our general who was there -- but he was not just the general, all of us think back -- we were attacked on 9/11. died, moreans americans than died at pearl harbor, and we had al qaeda and we had osama bin laden trapped in some mountains called tora bora. we did not finish them off. then we let them escape over the other side of the mountain because we said that is pakistan territory. think for a moment. can you imagine during world war won the battle of midway, which changed the entire war against japan, we sail across the international date line in the pacific and attack the japanese, destroyed their fleet, 1942. he went across the international date line will stop supposing he had turned back and said that is the international date line and japan has said

and duke alum william d. cohan looks at the duke atrosse scandal tonight 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> next, supreme court justice sonia sotomayor talking about from prosecutor to district and appellate judge to being on the supreme court. latina justice and the third woman to serve on the high court. georgetown university hosted event. it's about an hour and a half. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. thank you, president, for your extremely kind remarks. ats always great to be back georgetown and to have a chance to see you and my many colleagues. many here this afternoon stirs of memory.cords it's a very personal experience. thinking back some two decades ago when the bernstein lecture was launched with vice president gore and continued with so many luminaries. i must also mention another great mentor of mother-in-law, -- mentor of mine,daniel patric. it's been great to be connected this georgetown community. i've enjoyed coming back here, enjoyed being on the board of many years. i've witnessed the hard-headed

. >> it is the subject of an exhaustive book by william cohan ."the price of science silence." it is a great book. 600 plus pages and reads like a short story. why did you decide to write this book? are a duke alum. >> i am a duke alum, and a very loyal duke alum. the easiest thing would to have stay in my lane. everybody expects that from me. i found this so captivating and so caught up as best i could be in the media scrum at the time. first they condemned them and then exonerated them. i said, i want to know what happened. there was never a trial in this case. >> were you thinking book? want to do something a little different than wall street and i want to get into my michael lewis stays. this is "flash boys" for me. to the walluge street community. the duke lacrosse network has a beeline to wall street. >> it is part of the compact. that is part of the promise that is made to these kids. you come to duke, you pay lacrosse, we will get the network working for you to get to wall street. >> what did you learn? >> let me step back. let me remind v

. >> william cohan looks at the duke across scandal of 2006, sunday night. liam fox spoke about programst surveillance in washington recently. he called the snowden leaks treason and said his actions have done damage for u.s. security and allies. he said the u.s. debate is putting too much emphasis on civilian interception and not on the criminal acts of mr. snowden in the newspapers that covers the classified information. >> good morning. welcome to the american enterprise institute. we are pleased to welcome dr. liam fox, a member of the british parliament. he was the shadow foreign secretary, shadow defense secretary, and then when cameron came into power, became the actual defense secretary. he was the champion of a robust national defense and a champion of the american men and women intelligence services. that is what we're here to talk about today, one of the most damaging leaks in the history of american and british intelligence. dr. fox had a fantastic piece yesterday in which he declared edward snowden thinks of himself as a girl a warrior, but in r

. >> and the price of silence, the author and the duke alumni william cohan looks at the lacrosse scandal of 2006 on c-span q-and-a. >>> now former state department spokesman p.j. crowley on the role of diplomacy. he spoke wednesday at the american foreign service association in washington, d.c. for a little more than an hour. >> accustomed as i am taking questions from the podium -- [laughter] -- joe and bob, thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here in ca number of colleagues, past and present, in the audience. i do want to recognize a couple in particular. jonathan over here is an outstanding foreign service officer and serving as the public diplomacy officer and president at the ipdgc. later in the year he will be off to turkey, one of the most interesting places in the world for practitioners of public diplomacy. we are giving an analysis of the challenge that gw that we will be releasing leader i later in . second, back bruce gregory also a colleague that was just released in an important and thought-provoking report on the future of public diplomacy that is available on our i

in jail, no time in prison and got $20 million spent in the price of size, author and duke alum william cohan look at the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006 sunday night at eight on c-span's q&a. >> c-span to providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and key public policy events. every weekend of tv. now for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> american university's washington college of law hosted a discussion tuesday on legal issues facing documented and undocumented immigrants. a panel of hispanic legal advocates examine issues such as people offering fraudulent legal services and hospitals supporting immigrants who cannot afford to pay for medical care. this is one hour 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much for coming. dean grossman, thank you for this great conference and the like to thank the panelists and it prohibits this gre

. >> author and duke alumni william d cohan looks at the lacrosse scandal of 2006. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> supreme court justices anthony scalia and ruth bader ginsburg were guests on "the kalb report." they talked about how freedom was defined. the composition is part of the kelp series -- kalb series. this is an hour and 15 minutes. the kalb report is funded by a grant from the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. ♪ >> from the national press club, this is "the kalb report," with marvin kalb. >> hello, and welcome to another edition. in our program tonight, 45 words, a conversation about the first amendment with supreme court justices antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. it would be an honor obviously to have one supreme court justice as my guest, but have two is indeed a very special privilege, especially these two, who generally represent contrasting opinions on the court, and yet they are great friends who dine together, travel together, love going to the opera together. they inspired a new opera called "scaliaginsburg." they are

. >> in the price of silence, author and duke alum william d. cohan looks at the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> for the southwest florida museum of history and our agricultural exhibit, and we highlight the three c's of florida agriculture. which is citrus, cattle and kane. and -- and cane. and the three big industries within agriculture that have made florida what it is today. interesting, all three of those were originally brought offer by the spanish. in the first -- inhas been tabts here in florida. the cattle in the first place was brought over as a food source. for the settlement of florida. and citrus and cane were later brought over as cash crops. well, the cattle established itself as almost -- the early american settlers who came down here had herd the cattle, they were free roaming. and so the florida cowboy or what we call the florida cracker would herd the cattle once a year during season when they were bringing them to market. but other than that they just kind of roamed the state. and so they ado

. >> in "the price of silence," author and duke alum william d. cohanoked at the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006 sunday night at eight on c-span's q&a. >> former u.s. ambassador to iraq said the upcoming parliamentary elections in iraq are the most important yet because an outcome could create sectarian divisions. they heard about the results of recent iraqi public opinion survey which the regional divide on opinions about the election and the situation in iraq over all. this is 90 minutes. >> thank you but i'll just give some brief introductory remarks and then will move to our panelists. iraq will have come to me on how, its third election coming up at the end of this month on the 30th. this will be an interesting if it, and certainly iraq is at a crisis point, a transition point, or is on a downward spiral depending on who you talk to. but certainly this comes at an important time for iraq. we can all agree about that. it will be interesting, interesting data we get from this election about the relative strength of the block, about what the future of i

. >> in "the price of silence" author and duke obama william d. cohan look at the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006 sunday night at eight on c-span's q&a. >> former british foreign secretary david miliband and former u.s. ambassador to syria robert ford discuss humanitarian efforts in syria. the washington institute host this event. it's about one hour 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is andrew stigler, i'm a senior fellow here with the washington institute for near east policy where i work on mostly syria among other things, or series and everything that it affects in the region. the discussion today is about the serious conflict and where strategic interest in human and -- imaging interest intersect it with over 160,000 killed, countless thousands injured, missing or detained, the syrian uprising continues to make a grizzly and double mark not only on syria but on the middle east as a whole with over 40% of serious 23 million population displaced internally, or as refugees during over three years of a bloody uprising, syria recently overto

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. >> in the price of silence, author and duke alum william d cohan looks at the duke scandal of 2006.hington journal continues. host: each week in this segment of the washington journal, we put a spotlight on a recent magazine piece. we are joined by keith johnson of foreign policy to talk about his recent report -- prudent putin aims his energy weapon at your. to europe. gas what is russia doing with its natural gas supply? guest: in terms of supply, russia has not done anything yet. ,hat they have done in the past since the fall of the soviet union, russia has used gas weapons on 50 occasions. this is straight out of the playbook of the post-soviet russian state. to use the fact that they are huge supplier of natural gas as a weapon to influence what other states do. since the start of this crisis, they have not shut off supplies. they have threatened to. the main thing they have done is jack up the prices severely. that adds to the stress for the new government in kiev. host: why does this matter to the greater eu? guest: europe gets a big portion of its gas from russia. the bigges

. >> in the "rights of silence," author in duke alum william d. cohan at the allegations tonight on c-span "q&a." >> cryptology is an agent art -- ancient art. we have some interesting artifact that really help you understand just how long people have been making and breaking codes and had a need for cryptology. when we talk about the united states, it is important to note that the making of breaking of codes has been a part of america even before we gained our independence. one of our most precious artifacts is known as the jefferson cipher device. truth in advertising comments are important to note that we don't have any definitive conclusive evidence that this particular device belonged to thomas jefferson. but there are some interesting facts about it. one, this artifact was found in an antique store very close to monticello. it appears to have the ability to decipher french and english and we know thomas jefferson was an ambassador to france. there is a drawing of a device very similar to this in jefferson's private papers. even so, we cannot say f

with william cohan . then another chance to see the bbc review of the major event in parliament. next, a discussion about the difficulties covering national security issues moderated by bob woodward. it is part of the sources and secrets conference held recently at the new yorti