and finally john witt from yale law school. john is yale college b.a., yale law school, yale ph.d. in history, but he is actually a philadelphia phillies fan. >> that's true. >> he's the alan duffy class of 1960 professor of law at yale. they say he teaches torts but he is really a constitutional historian and a great one. several books, "patriots and cosmopolitans: hidden histories of american law," another entitled "the accidental republic: crippled working men, destitute widows" and "the remaking of american law," and now forthcoming soon, very soon, "lincoln's code: the laws of war in american history." this is a panel i put together to try to get obviously different perspectives on this huge problem of what is the civil war legacy. so i'm going to ask andy to go first. andy. yeah. two minutes. your favorite civil war legacy. >> okay. thank you very much. delighted to be here. i am going to try to say two things in two minutes. david gave us a little bit of heads up. we got a chance to think about this. what popped into my head was a memory i hadn't thought of in a while. when

well after mcchrystal was relieved of his command he was hired by yale university to teach a graduate course and mcchrystal transparency issues didn't end there you see a two thousand and ten documentary about pat tillman the professional football player turned soldier who was killed reignited interest in the crystals role the pentagon covering pentagon cover up surrounding his death now instead of pressuring recruits to be more open about the tillman case and the role that he played with torture squads in iraq while he was commander of jaison yale establishment organ sat on their hands the yale college democrats with through their sponsorship of the tillman story screening when it emerged that the general would join the school's faculty and stanko then the president of the college democrats made a statement that would make any hack blush he said quote the yale college democrats do not attack war heroes who do not attack members of the faculty so good thing to one of america's most revered universities is incredibly bold when it comes to thinking critically and challenging author alre

fox yalla savage in oregon sat on their hands the yale college democrats with through their sponsorship of the tillman story screening what emerged and the general would join the school's faculty and staff and go then the president of the college democrats made a statement with make any hack blush he said quote the yale college democrats do not attack war heroes who do not attack members of the yale faculty so good thing to one of america's most revered universities is incredibly bold when it comes to thinking critically and challenging author already right and mcchrystal self didn't exactly complain of the democrats timidly shied away from screening that documentary but guess what ladies and gentlemen it actually gets worse yesterday the new york times published a profile on the mcchrystal yell experience thus far and buried beneath fluffy anecdotes about how even embrace real hard hitting adversarial journalism coming from the time that was the real meat of the story one that the that of the narrative of mcchrystal in school completely issuing transparency the article states that all

into the common platform. >> i would say on the first point -- thank you for the observation about yale and studying at a liberal art college in singapore. because universities are doing exactly what what needs to be done with respect to the press. that is, we're in a new era, we just started being in this era. we are incredibly independent no economically and technologically with the rest of the world. we have to know more than we do. we have to educate young people to are part of this new world. how are we going to do that just sitting and thinking and having lots and lots of international activities based from there and universities are responding now in different ways. one is the yale, nyu, qatar, abu dhabi singapore branch knowledge are doing something different and work on research around the world. but we're doing i think in the university world what needs to be done in the press world. >> let's get a question in the front row and then in the back after that. >> would news vouchers makes news better or worse? supposed within the government subsidy that you're proposing, president

she electric toors at yale university and also a resident scholar at the american enterprise institutewelcome back to the show. >> thank you very much. >> you know, the one thing i hear more than ever nowadays is that there is a label for everything, and it's too many labels, too many treatments as a result. just from the 30,000 foot level for a second, the changes that are happening, is that going to make that perceived problem even worse? >> well, it is true that every year it's been -- every time it's been revised the dsm was first issued in 1952. we're now going into the fifth issue. it does get bigger and bigger, but basically when it does enmrarj, when diagnoses proliferate, it's not as if we've discovered new mental illnesses. we're just categorizing them differently. >> right. because, i mean, the perception is especially i think for people outside the world of medicine is that, look, this -- something is driving this. you'll have more people who are "sick" and taking medications. you are also troublinged by the fact that it takes kids at risk of developing mental illness, at r

obama did not go directly from high school to harvard and yale.another college where he did extremely well. i don't think you want to be leaving out there that he didn't deserve to get into harvard and yale, sean. >> sean: seems a little odd. i can tell you that i know kids with high school record and good s.a.t. scores and they are not getting anywhere near harvard. >> we shouldn't be talking about another one. if they go to another college and can get a 4.0 they can go to harvard and yale are you implying some kind of reverse discrimination. >> i'm saying drinking heavily and doing drugs enthusiastically. most people don't know it. >> i paid close attention and never heard until just now the voice of barack obama saying he did these things. it will probably be startling to other people. >> sean: i got more. >> i think a lot of people are thinking let's dig into romney and think well, if we keep digging into him the other side is going to bring out the obama stuff. >> sean: like if you bring up the kennel and you ate dog it backfires. >> i agree

and one is the yale, nyu, qatar, abu dhabi, singapore model of a branch campus. we're doing something different. we have what we call global centers in eight different cities now around the world which are a network and will help faculty and students study and work on research around the world. but we're doing i think in the university world what needs to be done in the press world. >> a question in the front row and then to the back after that. >> would news vouchers make news better or worse? suppose within the government subsidy that you're proposing, president bollinger, some of it went to news consumers and they could pay for the websites that charge? would that make things better or worse? >> well, i mean, i think -- i think these kinds of questions are very important. and i don't want to speak as if i have thought through every dimension of this. my own personal view at this stage is that having funding mechanisms that create and nurture institutions like npr, like our international broadcasters, like pbs, like universities is going -- that will give you t

at yale. he wrote a number of books on conservatism. he sort of wanted to be the philosopher of the conservative movement, never did, had lots of problems. he was a difficult person. i remember meeting him several times as a child, he and my father were good friends, he'd come to my house and so on, very intense man, wrote a book called "the conservative affirmation." i guess he would be called a very hard right political philosopher. >> on the cover of your book, "upstream," you have barry goldwater and ronald reagan, who's your hero? >> well, i guess, in a way they both are. we can't all but help have ronald reagan as a hero. i worked for him in his administration, met him a lot of different times and spent some time with him and looked back on him as i wrote the book, i talked to a lot of people that knew him a lot better than i did, read a lot of things about him, and i think he was, in a way, the epitome of what a good conservative politician is. goldwater added a great deal to the moveme

obama did not go directly from high school to harvard and yale.ere he did extremely well. i don't think you want to be leaving out there that he didn't deserve to get into harvard and yale, sean. >> sean: seems a little odd. i can tell you that i know kids with high school record and good s.a.t. scores and they are not getting anywhere near harvard. >> we shouldn't be talking about another one. if they go to another college and can get a 4.0 they can go to harvard and yale are you implying some kind of reverse discrimination. >> i'm saying drinking heavily and doing drugs enthusiastically. most people don't know it. >> i paid close attention and never heard until just now the voice of barack obama saying he did these things. it will probably be startling to other people. >> sean: i got more. >> i think a lot of people are thinking let's dig into romney and think well, if we keep digging into him the other side is going to bring out the obama stuff. >> sean: like if you bring up the kennel and you ate dog it backfires. >> i agree with that. >> sean

so he's teaching at yale and teaching an off-the-record class. big story on it. and it's interesting to see what general mcchrystal has said since leaving his job. he has gone on to say things that have been critical about the policy in afghanistan as well. he told tom brokaw. we have a clip where he says we should stay in afghanistan ten years longer than we are now. >> ten years later on a percentage basis, are we 50% of the way home? >> i think we're probably--i think we're a little better than 50%. but the last parts that need to be done in terms of creating a legitimate government that the afghan people believe in, and of this providing a counterweight to the taliban idea as well as the taliban forces, i think that's going to be a hard last percentage to close. >> now remember this is the white house who is going on to say we are done--we're basically done and wrapping up the war in afghanistan, and the former general on tv saying we have ten more years left. that's not the only time that general mcchrystal has criticized the president since

he is in his mid 40's and now teaching at yale. just got married to the woman that does the green design at yale. both programs are about a year old. the universities are finally trying to get this. amy on the right is the first chemist -- last year more women graduated than men. we have the technologies to figure this out. we need to get the billion dollar beauty companies supporting this research. of course the power of act vision, opi nail products. they are the largest seller of largest products worldwide, 70 countries. they are using -- why don't you take it out of your u.s. products. they weren't too keen on that. we think the europeans are crazy. opi has fun names like i am not really a waitress red. we decided to do a spoof and we came up with our own names, like i can't believe it is a carcinogen. we dressed up with sashes that said mistreatment. this all happened in may, by august the company announced they were taking out formaldehyde and now advertising all of their products are free of those chemicals. >> [applause]. >

researchers at yale say they've developed one. we'll have information. >>> i'm danielle nottingham in washington. coming up, the president and lawmakers call for change after jpmorgan chase loses billions in bad trade. >>> anew addition is under way to the international space station. nasa says the russian rocket is carrying three space engineers and an american and two russians. once at the space station, they will join three colleagues already on board. the u.s. is dependent on the russian space program after grounding our u.s. shuttle fleet. >>> researchers at yale university are developing a pill to help people stay sober. when taken before drinking, it reportedly can weaken some of the effects of alcohol on the brain. researchers also hope that the drug will help reduce the amount of damage done to liver from drinking alcohol. >>> testimony has resumed in the roger clemens perjury trial. his chief accuser former trainer brian mcnamee returned to the witness stand this morning. mcnamee testified yesterday that he injected the

carter, a professor at yale law school and author of "the violence of peace: america's wars in the age of obama." he joins us from new haven. professor carter, welcome to you. >> thank you. >> john brennan said that the use of drones is legal, perfectly legal, you agree with that? >> i think the administration is right. we're a nation at war and in time of war a belligerent certainly has the right to target the leaders of the other side who are in the chain of command and that's what we are doing. >> but if the battlefield in essence here has become the entire globe, how does that change the moral calculus of when and how the u.s. uses force justly? >> well, i think you're right that the more important questions are the ethical ones and one of the ethical questions is how big the battlefield is because the administration claims the right to target leaders wherever they may show up in the world. a second moral problem that arises is the problem of civilian casualties. even if we have the right to go after leaders of al qaeda we have to do it, both as a matter of law and as a matter of e

she was called a star at yale by a young fellow student called bill. hillary actually had to slow down a bit to be with bill choosing to take an extra year to graduate. hillary always cared deeply about public policy. when she was in the white house she made her mark through the commitment on the issues that actually mattered most education, health care, children's welfare. she was right. it takes a village. after having remarkably served new york and the country at the senate, look at what vision, what inspiration, what incredible energy she brings to her job. her job? no. her mission as secretary of state. she has made u.s. aid more effective around the world helping people everywhere. she has crossed many borders and built so many bridges. in pakistan she shattered myths by meeting with leaders and a broad section of pakistani society. and who can forget the iconic photo of her and kyi a few months ago in myanmar a moving testament to the power of leaders to the power of women who had devoted their life, their energy, their brain life common good of

how many presidents earned degrees from both harvard and yale?weet us the answer and the first correct answer will get the prize of pries. that answer and more coming up on "the daily rundown". >>>> the executive responsible for the conference emblematic for government waste left the agency. he has been on leave since april for his in organizing the 2010 conference that costs over $800,000. the inspector general asked the justice department to conduct a criminal inquiry into his activities. less than two weeks to go until the recall election, the governor's association is pouring a million into the effort to oust scott walker. some officials expressed anger that the obama campaign and national committee have not contributed more. the convenience store clerk has been arrested for 6-year-old aton pates who disappeared. he is expected to make his first appearance in court this afternoon. we are minutes away from the opening bell. happy friday. >> happy friday. it's good to see you. it has been a long week. we are watching this morning and it looks l

one from yale found that in fact under the new criteria, some high functioning children with asperinger's will be left out. there's another series of studies reported in the times that suggests that all of the people currently diagnosed would still remain under the umbrella of spectrum. but if they're wrong and if the yale folks are right, it's that some of them will be excluded, then their services are at risk. now, the sluz, of course, is to try, if we could, is to separate, to uncouple the need for services from actually having a specific diagnosis, and just base the need for services on the function and the requirements of a specific child. >> there's a lot here. we're going to keep on top of it. thanks so much. >>> and next up, a scavenger hunt with a twist. life and death on the line. >>> we're back. you know what this is? an automatic external defibrillator. it gives a shock to reset the patient's heart rhythm if the patient suddenly finds themself in cardiac arrest. i have seen this work first hand. there's a problem, that many people are afraid of using the devices and don't know

because my yale courses on open yale and you can take my course by the way. it is on line and it is free. i have exams and problems if you really want to go the whole way but i won't grade you. i have been concerned over the years that it almost seems like i am doing a bad thing. people are so angry about finance today and it seems evil. i feel a little bit like an rotc instructor during the vietnam war. [laughter] catherine wrote an article in "the new york times" a couple of months ago based on her asking top universities what fraction of your students went into financial services, and the general answer she got was, just before this crisis was something like 25%. she was questioning whether that was too high. the record was princeton which had 46% going into finance in 2006. you are frowning. [laughter] i am touching a nerve here i guess. people think, whatever happened to science or engineering or education or the helping profession? is something wrong? i'm not going to say with the consent should the but i want to think about that and i think c., part of

this young woman gave up the job and went back to school, to yale law school because she has seen the issues of americans coming -- people coming to america and not being treated fairly, decently, honorably. she then took a little stint with the service employees union, found a whole bunch of stuff that she thought needed to be changed and fixed and so she's at yale law school and she's going to be -- the first thing she's going to be is an immigration lawyer. i just want to say we have to take care of this country. it is not going to be a terrific country forever unless we take it -- take care of it on a regular basis. this is -- you know, i could say i was a journalist and i was -- i was a lawyer. i was this and that. but basically i was a citizen. i was just a citizen who really thought the place was great, particularly when jackie won the world series that year. >> i had a last question for each panelist. you already answered the question that i wanted to ask you. let me just quote briefly from roger wilkin's lovely book in which he writes the greatest legacy of our founding fathe

he has taught at yale and writes widely in popular press as well and as i mentioned, this is the fruit of his work of the last several years. lee huebner founding father of the ripon society. speechwriter for president richard nixon and former publicer of the international herald-tribune add the director of the gw school of media and public affairs. then i'm going to turn to steve hayward, who my colleague at american enterprises institute. i was there for many years, is an expert on many issues, environmental included but also a historian and political scientist with a background in ronald reagan. written several books on the presidency of ronald reagan and perhaps will provide a somewhat more skeptical viewpoint about the demise of moderate republicans. finally, dan balz to my left, chief correspondent for the "washington post" author of "battle for america: 2008." will the author for the battle for america: 2012? a different title? still working on a title. the idea is the same. covered campaigns for many years for the "post," but also the white house and congress. so is a veteran w

he's a graduate at yale university law school. thank you for being here, please proceed. >> thank you very much. [ inaudible ] >> if you would turn the microphone on, in the box in front of you. >> such for inviting me -- thank you very much for inviting me today. i'm delighted to be here. let me summarize briefly my written statement. the first point i make is that care has to be taken in defining the term racial profiling. and in particular, i think that it's important to bear in mind that racial profiling is disparate treatment on the basis of race. good police activity that happen to have a disparate impact on the basis of race not racial profiling. second point i make is that the amount of racial profiling that occurs is frequently exaggerated and that care needs to be taken in analyzing the data in this area. all that said, racial profiling as i define it is a bad policy. i opposition it for the reasons that many of my co-panelists here are giving. there is one possible exception that i would make, and that is in the anti-te

this young woman gave up the job and went back to school, to yale law school, because she has seen the issues of americans coming -- people coming to america and not being treated fairly, decently, honorably. she then took a little stint with the service employees union, found a whole bunch of stuff that she thought needed to be changed and fixed and so she's at yale law school and she's going to be -- the first thing she's going to be is an immigration lawyer. i just want to say we have to take care of this country. it is not going to be a terrific country forever unless we take it -- take care of it on a regular basis. th

and to chief thomson's left is professor tom tyler, professor of law and psychology at yale law school, world famous on the ways policing practices and the conduct of other officials help to shape the legitimacy of law and legal institutions. so over the last two months, much of the country has been transfixed by the shooting death of a 17-year-old teenager, trayvon martin, in sanford, florida, who was unarmed and walking back from a convenience store when he was killed. much of the ait tensittention h focused on the role of race not just in the shooting but the police investigation and against arresting the shooter, george zimmerman, or charging him with any crime. last week zimmerman was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. this morning as we speak the senate judiciary committee is holding hearings on ending racial profiling in america. so, professor tyler, let me start by asking you as a psychologist and law professor, what do you make by the controversy over the trayvon martin shooting? how does it relate to the long-standing debate about the role of race in policing? >>

next, yale history professor joanne freeman and university of chicago political science professor william howell describe acts of violence in the u.s. congress leading up to the civil war. and congressional checks on war powers in the modern era. professor freeman is working on a book titled "field of blood, congressional violence in antebellum america." american history tv is at the organization of american historians annual meeting in milwaukee, and we are going to talk next about congress and american politics with joanne freeman who is a history professor at yale. and with professor william howell from the university of chicago and you're a political american politics professor. thanks for joining us today. let's start off, professor freeman, with a book you have been working on called "field of blood, congressional violence in america." congressional violence, normally when we hear about congress we don't think of violence. >> that's true. the book is really about the couple of decades the 1830s and '40s and '50s before the civil war and it's about actual physical violence. pushing,

i just got called about a piece i did on slate.com, just another yale giri -- geriatric professor which i take issue with. >> the problem is -- and this is not you guys' fault. the problem is we've taken the notion of democracy a little too far, and it has not gotten into people's heads on the internet yet that you really should curate your comments. you should have a goal. it's not just an open space for people to spout off. >> keep telling them that. >> i have a blog, i'm hosting a space. i would not let you come into my house and insult one of my guests. i would ask you to leave. that's what would happen in my space. if you want the space to be elevated, you have to treat it that way. that's our fault. we haven't quite gotten it through our heads that we should commit resources for it. i'm sorry that happened. it happens 99% of the time. >> there are a hundred other legacies we could take up here, but let's take a few questions. if you have a question, there are two mikes. you can stand at the mike or tom or melissa will -- right into the mike, sir, if you would. tom, turn it on, if

going to talk next about congress and american politics with joe and freeman, a history professor at yale and with professor william how well from the university of chicago and you're a political american politics professor. thanks for joining us today. start off, professor freeman, with a book you've been worked on called "field of blood congress counsel violence in america." normally when we hear about congress, we don't think about violence. >> that's true. the book is really about the couple of decades, $91830, '40s and '50s before the civil war and it's about actually physical violence, pushing, shoving, pulling of buy knives, pulling of pistols, mass melees with 20 or 30 guys sort of wrestling each other. part of what i'm talking about in the book is, there's a lot more of it than people realized. a lot of it's hitten. you have to certainly for it and find it. once you do, you sort of realize, i mean, america was a violent place but congress was a violent place in this period, too. i sort of cataloged a lot of it and trying to look at the implications of it. >> what's going on there