director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson center, haleh esfandiari. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. dr. haleh esfandiari, welcome to our program. >> thank you for having me. >> hinojosa: so, in the fall of 2007... no, in the spring of 2007, suddenly i go to my computer and i start seeing these emails that say, "there is an iranian-american academic who is being held in a tehran prison. do everything that you can to try to get her out." and of course i started sending that to many people, and i received it from women's groups, from journalist groups, from human rights groups. i don't remember any of those emails saying that haleh esfandiari was a grandmother who was detained. how did you survive? you were 105 days in solitary confinement. >> it was very tough, maria, but i am a very disciplined person. and being 67 years old and a student of iran, having studied carefully, a lifetime, iran, i knew how to handle my interrogators, and i knew how to make it possible for myself to survive under those very difficult and dire conditions, both physica

president woodrow wilson pushed a button that sent a message to san francisco. flipping a switch that turned on a light. the gate swung open. california governor and san francisco mayor led the throng into the grounds. what awaited them was stunning. the first thing they saw coming through the main entrance was the tower of jewels. 43 stories tall. hung with 100,000 shimmering gloss bobbles. shimmering light to the patrons. through the tower of jewels led the courtyard. it was a fairyland. there were exposition palaces. each devoted to a certain topic. and philadelphia sent the liberty bell. the real liberty bell not a replica. the first exposition to include auto racing. top speed 60 miles per hour. for the first time an airplane flew in an exposition and for many people it was the first time they had seen an airplane. it was also the first time an airplane crashed at an exposition. three weeks after the fair opened, a dangerous stunt went wrong. san francisco's famed savuation pioneer lincoln beachy died when his plane spun into the bay. another pioneer flier

let's head over and see how we're doing south of town, woodrow wilson bridge, inner and outer loop looking good so far >> thanks very much. 4:53. frequent flyers are satisfied with just about everything associated with flying with one big exception. tales of their disgust from nbc chris clackem. >> reporter: for the second year in a row they have more satisfied with virtually every aspect of airline travel with two glaring exceptions. cost and fees. not surprising says j.d. power. airfares have gone up as business and leisure travel picked up. but it's the fees for everything from priority seat to go extra baggage that consumers really seem to resent. >> so while different airlines may have had different levels of declines with the base father the real difference or slippage came with additional fees within the cost and fee category. >> jetblue narrowly beat out southwest for the top ranking. alaska came out on top among traditional carriers. overall, the low cost airlines received a higher average ranking. ironic but not unexpected. >> now, cost and fees is certainly a part of that. but t

. >> start this time on the beltway just east of the woodrow wilson bridge. inner and outer loop for 295, national harbor moving along nicely. wilson bridge span. very good news out of oxen hill. no concerns. i-95 northbound virginia as you head north to the prince william parkway has been picked up. all your travel lanes are open. gw parkway both directions between old town alexandria and 14th street bridge, traffic very light. moving nicely. joe, eun. >> thank you, jerry. >> 4:42 is the time. virginia's governor teaming with hollywood to help local children. >> what metro says it needs to get its escalators up and running. do you know what's in your spread ? in land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil, there are just three natural ingredients. sweet cream,anola oil and salt. discover land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil. we don't just make a taillight... ..we make a sculpture. we don't just make a sunroof... ..we make the heavens wide. we don't just make a crossover... ..we make a statement. the cadillac srx. we don't just make luxury cars

east of woodrow wilson bridge, harbor, there's the bridge there. both directions between alexandria and oxen hill looking good. looking good through northeast. joe, eun. >> jerry, thank you. >> thanks very much, jerry. police are looking into a string of assaults along the metro branch hiking/biking trail in northeast washington. there are concerns whether police even know how to reach that trail. darcy spencer explains. >> reporter: bike, jog or even roller blade on this path in northeast d.c. and you could become victim of a crime. over the past few weeks, there have been numerous robberies. one woman was zapped with a taser as she rode her bike here. >> i'm a little shocked by it because i haven't noticed anything suspicious or out of the ordinary lately. >> reporter: we found out if you call for help, there could be a problem. residents tell me when people have called 911 dispatchers don't know where the path is. this 1 1/2 mile stretch known as the met branch trail opened last year. >> what gives people the impression that the cops don't know

crisis, we go to our middle east adviser to the state department and currently a scholar at the woodrow wilson think tank. there are a lot of countries that are too big to fail. what do you mean by that? >> there is a view that assad is too important to the peace process to be allowed to go down. does not mean we approve of what is happening. the reality is we are making a virtue out of necessity. we cannot affect members on the ground. we can tighten sanctions and withdraw the investment, but unless we are prepared to the amount unilateral action against the regime, i don't think anybody -- two arab countries, there is no stomach here and no will to mount a military operation that probably would not succeed, and would create enormous responsibility and obligation for the united states. >> so this administration is gambling that it would rather have a repressive and brutal president assad? >> there is a fear of that. the matter what the united states does, that it could possibly do politically or even strategically, we are not going to be able to effect the calculations of regina that is in th

american presidency particularly of progressive presidents is that this is a continuing cycle woodrow wilson of elected in one thousand twelve is a very progressive. politician within two years was within a few years was taking us to war in in europe franklin roosevelt doctor when the doctor new deal became franklin roosevelt dr when the war after world war two happened harry truman thought a progressive president. wound up taking us to war in korea and his domestic programs were consumed. by by the war and then in johnson city. my first job was not his press secretary i was responsible for. much of the domestic policy civil rights environmental message economic policy and all of that and suddenly with the escalation of the war in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty i saw all those hopeful possibilities consumed by it by growing ravenous the may ends of the military for more and more money and more and more troops and i saw all our hopes for about our great society disappeared of the quagmire of vietnam it was a very sad time a great time. for those who lost their lives both americans

we had what some people allege was a black male of woodrow wilson -- blackmail of woodrow wilson by louiseis. world war ii was the same. americans did not want to get into that war. host: we will let our guests respond. guest: i have questions about woodrow wilson's involvement in world war i, but i do not think it had anything to do with the jewish lobby or louis brandeis. it had to do with nazi fascism. they were a major threat to the long run of well-being of this country and to any hopes of democracy around the globe. i think that franklin roosevelt was very wise in supporting britain -- france and but at first, then, of course, britain, and the soviet union when it was attacked by the nazis in june, 1941. that was unnecessary war. as i said, i thought harry truman -- that was a necessary war. as i said, i thought harry truman did the right thing, but i sure the skepticism of those who said it was a mistake to have crossed the 30th parallel

who is already committing suicide." >> woodrow wilson. says he is still dug n thank you. >> thanks, brooke. >>> man expected to replace secretary of defense robert gates is testifying before lawmakers on america's wars and leon panetta is getting quite candid today. you will hear what he says about how fast troops will begin leaving afghanistan next month. >>> also, the next time you try on clothes, you may see a camera in the dressing room. i'm serious. a camera. but wait until you hear why. alison kosik, i don't know where you find this stuff, i know we have talked about some crazy stories before. this is a special day with you. that's next. what's this option? that's new. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> leon pan knelt ta talks afghanistan and cameras making an appearance in your dressing room. time to play reporter roulette. barbara starr, i want to talk to you at the pentagon. the head of the cia, currently leon panetta, testifyi

south of town, woodrow wilson. inner and outer loop looking good. out on the rails, still clean slate this morning. no delays metro, vre or marc. >>> jerry, thank. it is now 5:42. >>> what metro needs to get its broken escalators up and running again. >>> a local member of >>> get your dancing sphaous on shoes on. holmes-norton says dancing flashmobs this past month are proof people want more events on the mall. she wants to host a national dance party day on july 30th. >>> a fairfax county elementary school will be closing its doors permanently at the end of the school year by a ruling from the supreme court, according to the washington examiner. they had planned to shut down clifton elementary school due to declining enrollment and the high cost of renovations. parents upset with the decision sued to keep the school open. friday, the supreme court of virginia decided to shut down the school. parents of clifton students are urged to check boundary maps for new school assignments. >>> today bob mcdonald will launch a new program he hopes will reduce

south of town to the woodrow wilson bridge between alexandria and oxen hill.town or out of the district through southeast, along the sousa, both directions looking okay. out to catch a train, good news all the way around. metro, vre, marc, no delays >> out in arizona, firefighters are battling one of the state's largest wildfires ever. crews from across the country are there to help. the fire scorched more than 144,000 acres since it began last week. rising smoke can be seen from more than 150 miles away in southern colorado. the fire is continuing -- contributing to changing the weather conditions in the area. >> the air the last few days has been in excess of 30,000 feet. when you have something that large with that much heat it kind of generates its own weather. >> that's mazing. authorities ordered neighboring evacuations in neighboring communities. >>> melting snow and rain have crews trying to keep back massive flood anything iowa. reservoiring are nearly full, so the army corps of engineers is opening flood gates to release excess flow. many homeowners

his other publications include books on theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, a comparative study of democracy in europe and the united states and essays on civil war history. he earned his doctorate at clark university. please join me in welcoming professor mario dinunzio to be roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure and an honor to be at this wonderful place. let me cite two quotations from franklin roosevelt that i have used that may get us started. better the occasional fault of a government that lives in the spirit of charity than the consistent omission of a government frozen in its own indifference. and that is from his acceptance speech for renomination in 1936. thank you. the second reads the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. those two quotations i think capture something of the mind of africa roosevelt and of what i call the rose about revolution. the book is constructed in two parts. an extended essay on the place of fdr and the new deal

one of our newer cameras on the built way off the woodrow wilson bridge. there's the wilson bridge span right there. right now moving nicely. both directions looking good around 295. and head out and see how we're doing. those of you at the key bridge, no worries either direction. delays on vre. 300 and 302 delayed bus of problems. had a medical emergency problem early on 300. no delays, metro. no delays on marc. joe, eun. >> thank you, jerry. 6:12, 69 degrees. the surprises that could come out as the former head of the imf heads t >>> welcome back at 6:15. today german officials expect to get test results confirming the source of the deadly e. coli outbreak. officials now say vegetable sprouts caused the outbreak. they are from an organic farm in northern germany that has now been shut down. they were served at four restaurants over the last month. 22 deaths are being blamed on the e. coli. 22 people have become sick, including four americans. they got sick while travel anything germany. >>> today the former chief of the international monetary fund will b

um, certainly if you go back to his tenure as assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson, um, he was a constant promoter of -- which is an interesting innocent incidens life because the president, wilson, was a kind of diffident person as far as foreign relations were concerned. he felt that the united states should refrain from interfering in foreign affairs. he department think that we thought that -- he didn't think that we thought that we should be very restrained in our use of american power. roosevelt -- wilson's secretary of state, william jennings bryan, was a pacifist who really was a pose today the exercise of american power, resigned because he thought the wilson administration was getting too belligerent by 1915. fdr's immediate boss was a will sewn yang and a disciple of bryan's who looked upon the uniform navy with kind of bemused suspicion. he was always reluctant to use the navy in any way. and, of course; this was all anathema to franklin roosevelt who spent his entire eight years as assistant secretary very, in that wonderful way of his, very charmingly but

i never thought of fdr as much of writer, not compared to the doctor roosevelt or woodrow wilson or various world leaders, such as winston churchill or lenin. before i could think more about the question, there came my boxes, and so i put away the thought in the back of my health but fast forward several months. in the meantime, i dropped my dissertation, taken a leave of absence from school and started work at the legal assistance as a law firm. at one point the editor0s a journal, invited know write an article about franklin roosevelt for the journal. i didn't want to use my abandoned disdissertation and had little time for research. so i thought i would take up franklin roosevelt's write to see what he had written before he was president. so i ordered copies of the article from the fining aids of fdr's writings, especially from the 1920s when he was in private life and trying to recover and had used writing as a kind of therapy for himself. when i read the airlines discovered to my great surprise that fdr hat written several pieces on diplomatic relations between the united states and ja

he is currently the woodrow wilson professor of government emeritus at williams college. james macgregor burns scholarship leadership and character have inspired devotion loyalty and friendship among the generations of historians and political scientist whom he has taught. one of those is michael beschloss who we are honored to have here with us today. a student of professor burns at williams college mr. beschloss attended the harvard business school. he holds five honorary darkness and lectures both in the united states and abroad. he has served as a senior associate member of saint anthony college at oxford, visiting fellow at the harvard russian research center and a senior fellow at the annenberg foundation. he is a trustee of mir at school the white house historical foundation and the national archives foundation. he has written nine books on american presidents the most recent of which residential courage, brave leaders and how they changed america and the conquerors, roosevelt truman and the destruction of hitler's germany were both on "the new york times" bestsell

harrison, cleveland, theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, woodrow wilson, coolidge, hoo r hoover, franklin roosevelt -- >> break, break. >> no, truman, eisenhower. >> cooper, you're gone. anderson cooper with ac 360. very close. >> thanks, rainman. >>> good evening. we begin keeping them honest. a strange saga or congressman anthony weiner and what may or may not be an intimate photo of him that came up on twitter. was the photograph of a crotch shot in boxers sent from his twitter account and addressed to a seattle area college student in fact him? >> have you ever taken a picture like this of yourself? >> i can tell you this that there are -- i have photographs, i don't know what photographs are out there in the world of me. i don't know what things have been manipulated and doctored and we're going to try to find out what happened. >> we'll play more of the interview with the congressman shortly in two parts. he did tell "the new york times," he could not say if he was the person in the picture, in other words, not ruling it out. he does, however, flatly deny sending it. he say

she directs the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. in 2007 she was detained in solitary confinement for more than 110 days days. joing usn w york, ervand abrahamian, he's a professor of middle eastern history and politics at cuny graduate center and hadi ghaemi is the director for human rights in iran. i'm pleased toave him join me as we look at reform politics, the reform movement, e impact of the arab spring in iran. estest, tell me what is happening today and how you assess where reform is in iran today i think the greenovement is not dead but it is dormant. we have seen this the tactic of the government in using intimidation, arrest, torture, long-term sentencing has helped. i mean, i was just recently told by a friend that whatever a demonstration is announced a lot of parents try to lock up their children at so to prevent them from going out because they know what the consequences are going to be. but the green movement is there and people talk about it and they are aware of it and they believe that there will be a comeba. as fo

isolationist trend in the gop, you've got to go back to the '50s, before eisenhower, or back to, well, woodrow wilson. so, i think in the end, graham will win out, particularly if the president starts to make the sale on libya and afghanistan. >> foreign policy is still on the top three on our "political trend" tracker. the top stories on the big political websites that we'll put up on our screen, our "political trend tracker" showing you it's rick perry at number one getting buzz from this weekend's gathering of republicans. the obama/boehner golf tournament. these are stories still gaining attention. libya and the war powers debate. losing a little bit of steam in terms of people focusing on it, but it's still in that top three. now, chuck todd, to you, as we look ahead on the political schedule not just for this week, but really a summer of intense campaigning, what are you watching out for? >> there's two dates that i'm watching in particular. one is july 15th. that is the fund-raising deadline. we'll find out, rub hits the road on money. how much did mitt romney raise? somebody hinting from his

institute of peace and woodrow wilson international center for scholars. >> let me ask you first, because as you look at the state of play in these three nations, is there a thread, a common denominator, some months into what we've been watching unfold? >> well, history is going to look back at this period for the common denominators, and that is the desire by an extraordinary range of people to stand up to jir at rick autocrats, to stand up to extremists, and to demand political openings. but three and four months into the unrest, you see different patterns evolving in the different countries. and you have the peaceful example of tunisia and egypt contrasted with the extraordinary-- what's becoming the war on--. >> brown: the three countries we're focusing on today. if you look at yemen, for example, how significant is it that the opponents were able to reach the palace, with shelling and woundy saleh today? >> it's important to understand yemen has now moved from the kind of peaceful demonstrations we saw in egypt to more like the civil war we saw in lebanon for 15 years. it's now less

i think he was alluding to a quote from woodrow wilson there.ing for him, he's going to probably talk about, is the fact that his constituents still support him. there's a brand new poll out tonight, john, that says 56% of the people in his very district say that he should not resign. 56%. so if he is somebody who is dug in looking for a reason and a way to stay, certainly the point of that poll is going to be one of the ways he's going to do it. >> our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. thank you. gloria borger is still with me, our chief political analyst. will he survive this? >> it's hard to say. yesterday i would have said no. today he sounds a little more dug in. i think the key is going to be when members of congress come back into town and he gets the pressure from them personally. they get to talk to each other. and then the ball could get rolling that way and say to him, you know what, you've got to go. >> see what happens. it will be very fascinating. dana mentioned jim clyburn saying the house democratic caucus will have s

those harsh words come from senator dick durbin via woodrow wilson.crat in the senate and he's talking about congressman anthony weiner. congressman weiner says he has no plans to resign and he can point to a new poll released this evening to make his case. 56% of voters in weiner's congressional district say he should not resign from congress. but his political destiny aside, does congressman weiner have some legal problems ahead of him? one prominent legal scholar thinks he certainly should be concerned. joining me now is jonathan turley, a constitutional law professor at george washington university, also a criminal defense attorney, a practitioner who knows the courtroom and principles. jonathan, welcome. >> thank you. >> so you are a criminal defense attorney, well regarded. if anthony weiner walked in as a client, how would you assess his potential exposure. >> i think it's unlikely he'll face a criminal charge on these facts, but we don't have a lot of the facts. he already did a very clever thing in avoiding the area where most politicians are

this two-hour event is hosted by the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. >> our format is going to be dan will lead off. we've given him up to 10 minutes to lay out his case regarding chinese foreign direct investment in the united states. derek will then have up to 10 minutes to make his response. we'll then have perhaps some give-and-take up here and then we'll throw the floor open for input from the audience to explore this issue in greater depth. dan, over to you. >> steve, thank you very much. and good morning to everyone. it's a real pleasure to be here for this. my gratitude to the wilson center which was my very first job while i was in grad school working for mary bullic here at the center when it was back on the mall and we had sherry in the afternoon. i hope that still happens and the age of society for the dedication of the topic we're here to discuss. it's a pleasure to be up here with derrick in particular who's a long time friend and fellow scholar of what's happening in china and u.s./china relations. he and i have far more in common on this issue than w

the fourth foundation and the woodrow wilson center foundation for scholars. in 2009, he was selected as carnegie scholar for his works and understanding of politics. we also have, of course, professor daoud khairallah. he advised financial institutions, governments, and commercial enterprises with financing, investment, and international dispute resolution involving the arab world and also advised clients with regard to government and multilateral initiatives to combat corruption and international business transaction. between 1974 and 1976, he lectured in international law at lebanese university school of law and school of journalism and information. he was a lecturer in project finance at the international law institute. since 9 #, he has been an adjunct professor at georgetown university law center teaching finance and investment. he was private legal practice from 1965 to 1969 and then from 1973 to 1976. i have one more. at the world bank, he served as a chairman of the conflict of interest. chairman of the select negotiation committee at the finance asso

. >> he played 800 rounds, played golf more than any other president besides woodrow wilson., he had a putting green installed in the white house. >> reporter: the best golfer in the oval office in the past 100 years? >> john f. kennedy, a natural athlete, played football in hyannisport and single digit hand handicapper. >> reporter: first president bush was in a hurry, played 18 holes in an hour and a half. president clinton loved his time on the links and was famous for taking mulligans, called slang for a no penalty do over shot. cbs's mark knoller was there when he broke 80. >> you would have think he broke cancer. >> reporter: president bush thought playing golf during the war sent the wrong signal. will we see a score later today? don't bet on it. president obama is the least experienced during the foursome. the white house keeps saying the point is not the score, the point they say is that everyone should get to know one another better. bill plante, cbs news the white house. >> joining us now more on this powerful foursome is golf missorian martin davis. good morning t

discussion today was jointly sponsored by the asian society and the kissinger institute here at the woodrow wilson institute. jack garrity is with the asian society. jack, would you like to say a few words? >> good morning, everybody. we're pleased to have this debate, and basically as state mentioned, it all came out of the launch of this report with the asian society and kissinger institute written by dan and his colleague, pelo. we came out with this last may, last month, and we have some copies of the report. it's -- you can find it also on line. you can download it at the asian society web site. welby shell, who was one of the big movers of this report, unfortunately can't be here today, but he wishes he would. what happened, when we launched the report afterwards, dan and pelo were up here with state, and derrick was sitting off to the left. and, you know, derrick has also done a lot of work on foreign -- chinese foreign investment, and he was kind of chomping at the bit. he got one question in, but that wasn't enough. so when dan and i were walking out, i get this sms and it's from derrick.

in international relations from princeton university's wilson -- woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. he has served an assistant professor of international relations at the united states military academy at west point, from which he has graduated and as a fellow at georgetown university. so the culture and debate in the c.i.a.'s director of intelligence will not be new to general petraeus, and he understands the importance of presenting clear analytic views and analyses. while all members are familiar with general petraeus' recent positions, let me touch on some of his prior experience. prior to command in iraq, he served at fort leavenworth, kansas, during which time he oversaw the development of the army and marine corps' counterinsurgency manual. the importance of that manual is that it has stood the test of time since then. earlier in his career, he served in bosnia where he was the assistant chief of staff for operations of the nato stabilization force and the deputy commander of the united states counterterrorism task force in bosnia. prior to his tour in