he joins us from yale university, where he is the florence rogatz visiting lecturer in law at yale lawchool. fidell is a cofounder and former president of the national institute of military justice. welcome to democracy now!. can you talk about the charges against your client? mr. fidell: there are two charges, one is a charge of desertion. let me back up. there are a lot of cases of desertion and they are typically handled at a very low level in the military justice system. the other charge is misbehavior before the enemy in that he left and, that is the gist of it. simply that he left and was in a battle zone, that is the allegation. those cases are rare. it's under a statute that is kind of a museum piece that dates back to the early days of the republic. there's probably something like it in the articles of war george the third signed in 1774. it's a rare charge and frankly i have been doing this since 1969, i cannot remember a case of an actual prosecution for that charge. amy: explain what it means -- "misbehavior before the enemy." mr. fidell: typically the charge entails things

robert shiller is a professor at yale university. today, mr.landmark work with equity investment. and of course, mr. schiller is a nobel laureate in economics. if any of this in the textbooks? which textbook do you use? charles: -- robert: there is no party line. tom: negative rates 101. robert: we are in a new regime. tom: what is the yellen regime? what is the druggie regime -- the mario draghi regime? robert: i would describe that as record lows. we had the all-time record low mortgage rate in 2012. that really focuses people's attention. we are in another world and we seem to be stuck there. it seems to be stuck with this secular stagnation story. tom: charles you have been legendary at this, including helping mr. swenson in endowments. do you have an underlying confidence in the markets right now given the turmoil that you see in robert shiller's world? charles: that is a tough question. tom: i'm glad to hear that. charles: the market has more brilliant people that we've ever had and they have access to more information they are able to us

yale university says it will expand its computer science department, adding seven professors over thetwo years to stop it comes after years of student and faculty complaints the school has fallen behind rivals like stamford. we turn now back to the case ellen pao of against kleiner perkins. cory johnson has more. cory: the issue of diversity and technology in the workplace is talked about all over the world, but specifically in silicon valley. there's a suggestion this could change the way silicon valley does business and hires people. joining me now is the former linkedin vice president and has a company called diversity reports. what is the state-of-the-art as it relates to hiring and diversity and how might that change with this case? guest: what's happening that is most interesting as it applies to diversity is there is far greater transparency that candidates and employers have around what their profile is. apple, google, facebook -- they have all disclosed what their gender mix is and it is horrible. cory: it's such an interesting thing because they are so in the spotlight. all

it is a full-time on-line master's from medical science coming from yale university.he first ever for an ivy to offer an on-line degree. the reason is you have to train more physicians assistants. the country needs 33,000 new pa's in the next decade. yale partnered with on-line learning software company called to you to help out. admission requirements and tuition are the same on-line as the regular yale on campus programs. >> good idea. it is convenient. i ask any parents "frozen" has been a big hit to disney and our wallets. frozen 2 is in the works? >> yes. kristen bell who plays anna, she tweets this. it is a picture of her sleeping on a bag of ice writing dreams are willy do come to frozen ii. it has made more than a million dollars since its release. disney shares yesterday hit a lifetime high. heather? >> everybody let's sing along now. >> the time is 20 minutes after the hour. there has been a major break possibly in the case of a missing girl. the brand new clues 8 years later and how the fbi hopes you can help. >> forced to wear fitness trackers as the apple

he's back to being a professor at yale university. she did not get legal advice sthads you cannot do that. she went off on her own and is leading american people in the lurch by denying access to these communications whileshy was in secretary of state. if they would have been treated as a government document they were government documents. they came in the form of eelectrons, not molecules. >> i have to say whatever the document is called, it seems a couple of things. >> of 109. >> of 109. it seems to me, there's a simple matter here. that those e-mails are government property. >> absolutely. >> and the fact she has them in in her possession there shouldn't be hesitation in her turning over those e-mails. i've got to say congressman trey gowdy is being a sporting and generous fellow giving her two weeks to produce. this is just to me, a marvel of absurdity. >> yeah. and she's thumbing her nose at her own president's declaration of transparency. she's thumbing her nose at the statiates of the united states government governing the nati

reconstruction of the bonampak murals has recently been completed under the direction of mary miller at yale university. scientific analysis of the ancient pigments allowed them to recreate the colors first applied by the maya. there is probably no more poignant representation of the presentation of captives in court than the north wall of bonampak. what we see before us is a scene of the triumphant lords of bonampak. they are all decked out in their fabulous jaguar costumes. they are standing above nine captives and a severed head-- the most prominent captive lying dead diagonally acrosshe drway. (narrator) the murals represent captives in abject poses... their gestures plaintive... their hands drpid,thr acg ai men ouif the presentation of a ild-- perhaps an heir to the throne... dancers and musicians play maracas made from gourds instruments made from turtle shells, a drum and trumpets. the celebrants are costumed-- one is a crayfish, another is a crocodile. the murals at bonampak provide a graphic and vivid depiction of the maya-- their cruelty, vanity love of music, and humor. they were left unfini

miles away, another bomb arrived at the office of david gelernter a computer science professor at yale universityheard a very loud explosion and then we heard a man screaming. >> gelernter survived. but he was seriously injured. >> why would anyone want to blow up a professor who specializes in the languages used to program computers? >> the unabomber was back in action, and investigators were no closer to finding him than they'd been when they started 15 years earlier. >> the unabomber, he was obsessed with ensuring that he threw us off the trail forensically. so he would do a number of things. the return addresses on the unabomb devices were real names of real people at real addresses of, say, their home or place of business. others were a location that actually existed, but actually a phony address. there was no such business at that particular address. and still others were meant to mock the fbi. for example, on one of the letters the unabomber sent, the address was 9th and pennsylvania avenue northwest in washington, d.c. which, of course, is the address of the j. edgar hoover fbi building.

last month, for example it was banned from yale university until 2016 after members allegedly inferred me -- interfered with an investigation. joining me now is a member of the fraternity at dartmouth and the author of "confessions of an ivy league boy," a memoir. also joining me is mark and ben. how are you doing tonight? >> evening. >> good evening. >> mark you first. i heard you on today. you're saying this is a form of assault, a form of violence. why do you say that? >> well, because of the effect that it has. every study shows this and good old-fashioned common sense tells you that if you live in an environment where people are threatening to hang you from trees, where there's an animus toward black people, it's unhealthy. it hurts the spirit, the mind. it's something we often don't talk about. even though this was caught on tape this isn't the only thing from this frat or even on this campus. >> come on. >> are you kidding? >> i'm saying i can't believe people think this is the only. it did not surprise me. i was surprised that it was caught on video. >> exactly. >> but having g

neil: yale university is now offering a full-time masters programming online partnering with a learningams for medical crees. degrees. harvard offers similar extension school programs but not entirely online. dagen, what do do you make of this? >> i think this is awesome. i think it could possibly reduce costs, it could encourage people to get advanced degrees. i learned integral calculus off a videotape -- >> i can't pronounce that. neil: you don't want to know what i learned -- >> i'm wondering how they get people to talk like in this online. i mean, it's very difficult -- neil: is that the yale -- >> it's a yale masters. full deal. may i add one thing? neil: quick. >> i want to encourage jamie dimon now? can i at least put my shoes on? if your bladder is calling the shots ... you may have a medical condition called overactive bladder ... ...or oab you've got to be kidding me. i've had enough! it's time to talk to the doctor. ask your doctor how myrbetriq may help treat... ...oab symptoms of urgency frequency, and leakage. which may mean fewer trips to the bathroom. myrbetriq (mirabeg

he's also a scholar in law at yale university. eugene fidell, welcome.ow sergeant bergdahl got the news while he was at if fort sam houston texas. was he expecting the charge? what was his reaction? >> i can't tell you his reaction because that would be breeching the attorney-client privilege, but he was -- what i can tell you, i think in fairness, is that he's philosophical about this entire controversy. you know, it's lasted many, many months more, i think, than any of us anticipated. it's something that he and all of us would like to see over but, at the same time, we have to make sure that we're protecting his legal rights. >> woodruff: is he guilty? (laughter) judy, i'm not going to go into that. i've made a point over the time that i was asked to represent sergeant bergdahl of not attempting to try the merits of the case in the media. i'm going to hold to that rule, if you don't mind. >> woodruff: why did he leave his post? what was he trying to do? >> i'm also not going into that except to say that major general kenneth daal who conducted the inve

neil: yale university is now offering a full-time masters programming online partnering with a learningees. degrees. harvard offers similar extension school programs but not entirely online. dagen, what do do you make of this? >> i think this is awesome. i think it could possibly reduce costs, it could encourage people to get advanced degrees. i learned integral calculus off a videotape -- >> i can't pronounce that. neil: you don't want to know what i learned -- >> i'm wondering how they get people to talk like in this online. i mean, it's very difficult -- neil: is that the yale -- >> it's a yale masters. full deal. may i add one thing? neil: quick. >> i want to encourage jamie dimon at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. >> what ice the deal, neil? neil: and what is the

house jonathan horn served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, yale university and we welcome him. [applause] >> thank you sell much for that love the introduction. as mentioned i used to work as a presidential speechright ear before i started writing this book so you can imagine my shock when i learned the subject of my new book didn't much care for my old occupation. robert e. lee was so offended when he heard that george washington might have used a ghost writer to pen his famous farewell address that he refused to believe it. he said anyone who said george washington used a ghost writer was injudicious so in writing this biography, i should care less about my own biography. i am so pleased to be at this beautiful house and so grateful to the historical society for inviting me today. i had a chance to see the historical society earlier today and it is such a wonderful facility and i am so happy to see it is expanding a great thing for people who do what i do because we are so reliant on the great work that our archivists and other preservationists do to prese

reconstruction of the bonampak murals has recently been completed under the direction of mary miller at yale university. scientific analysis of the ancient pigments allowed them to recreate the colors first applied by the maya. there is probably no more poignant representation of the presentation of captives in court than the north wall of bonampak. what we see before us is a scene of theriphant lords of bonampa they arell decked ouin their fabulous jaguar costumes. they are standing above nine captives and a severed head-- the most prominent captive lying dead diagonallyacros. (narrator) the murals represent captives in abject poses... their gestures plaintive... their hands drpid,thr acg ai en ouifr gestures plaintive... thpresentation of a child-- perhaps an heir to the throne... dancers and musicians play maracas made from gourds, instruments made from turtle shells, a drum and trumpets. the celebrants are costumed-- one is a crayfish, another is a crocodile. the murals at bonampak provide a graphic and vivid depiction of the maya-- their cruelty, vanity, love of music, and humor. they were left un

"yale university press," for which i was doing some legal work at the time, published a book, a scholarly book about the whole danish cartoon affair and didn't put any of the cartoons in there. and my reaction was disbelief because one's not talking about taste any more. this is what the book was about. and while perhaps you didn't have to publish every one of them, it's hard to communicate what was going on if you don't do it. i mean i had a letter in the "new york times" complaining about the fact that they didn't publish any of the cartoons at issue with respect to what we're talking about today. their stated position was they have a policy against publishing materials which, by their nature, are offensive and don't advance a public discussion of some issue. my view was that they were news newsworthy. how could they not be? and while one could make a determination that in the service of good taste, if you will, not to publish them all, publishing none of them seemed to me to depriving the readers of the chance to make a more informed judgment or at least have a better informed body of

it`s called "world on fire" and our guest has been amy chua, yale university law professor. thank you very much for joining us. >> guest: thank you for having me. .. >> and now joining us here on book tv i want to talk to you about one of your most recent books. doctor george, how do you define liberal secularism. >> guest: it is a view about human nature human destiny command human dignity that competes with other views, some secular but not liberal, some religious. very common in places like the one where we are right now

a lecturer at yale university, it barely describes his thinking on what we need to do in business.number of quotes to get us going. i would go back to john f. kennedy and to twist a quote, ask not what you're wall street can do for you, ask what you can do for wall street. you quote kennedy in your chapter. how close are we to responsibility versus privilege? vikram: we are not there. we are working towards it. we need to change the culture of wall street. it does not change easily. it is short-term oriented culture and we need to work on changing that. tom: it is about incentives. vikram: part of it is individuals playing in finance -- tom: they would say they are not playing. vikram: i understand. it is a five -- there is not a partnership that there once was. brendan: i keep coming around to the same question. it is good they feel it should reform itself. can we do nothing? is this not about regulations? vikram: the first thing we should think about but i think a clarification at the very least of conflicts of interest and when they exist, a transparency is important. we need to

jonathan served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, a graduate of yale university, and we welcome him. [applause] >> thank you so much for that lovely introduction judy. as was mentioned, i used to work as a presidential speechwriter before i started writing this book. so you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book didn't much care for my old occupation to. [laughter] in fact, robert e. lee was so offended when he heard george washington might have used a ghost writer to pen his famous farewell address that he refused to believe it. and he said anyone who said george washington used a ghost writer was, quote, injudicious. [laughter] so if i've learned nothing else from writing this biography is that i should say a little bit less about my own biography. [laughter] i'm so pleased to be at this beautiful house, and i'm so grateful to the historical society for inviting me today. i had a chance to go over and see the historical society earlier today, and it is such a wonderful facility, and i am so happy to see that it's expanding. that's a

he mailed to bombs from sacramento, one went to a yale university professor in new haven, and the other went to a professor at uc san francisco. now we are off and running again. we have heard from the unabomber again. >> were you on the task force at the time the decision was made to publish the manifesto? >> yes. >> did you participate? >> informally, yes. the decision was made by the fbi. there were several discussions we had combat -- had and we were, as i recall, i was certainly very strongly in favor of publishing. steve was also. it was a $35,000 -- 35,000 word writing sample. >> how did you learn about david kaczynski and his involvement? >> we, i think terry or max probably notified me that we had been contacted by an attorney, and if i'm not mistaken, that occurred in the fall -- >> it was february. >> that is only put agents in montana. >> right. [indiscernible] >> interesting how you compress time. i had remembered it as occurring earlier than that. the bottom line is, we were contacted by tony, and he recounted how he had a client he was representing anonymously at that poi

bush talking about his vice president, dick cheney at yale university in 2001.iew with playboy magazine. fox news correspondent james rosen recorded ten hours of interviews with the former vice president where they delved into issues such as u.s. foreign policy, race in ferguson and, yes, cheney's days hanging out in bars and getting kicked out of yale yuneuniversity. at the end cheney talked about religion and same-sex marriage. playboy asked him to remember before mary came out and asked him if he struggled when he did. cheney struggled no. and it was a surprise. i mean t wasn't something that was sort of there and nobody ever talked about it. cheney reveals his behind-the-scenes discussion with president bush saying "i always thought george w. bush agonized over it more than i did. when he informed me he was going to support a constitutional amendment basically to ban gay marriage same-sex marriage. i can remember having lunch with him at one point and he was trying to explain to me what he was going to do. he was worried that somehow i would be offended by w

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our next speaker is kaitlyn verboon from yale university where she is now finishing a dissertation. she'll take us beyond the fire of february 1865 to the reinstruction era. she is originally from chappell hill, north carolina. she went to school at william and mary. she has a long association with columbia however. she was the historic columbia foundation's 2012 scholar in residence with woodrow wilson family home that just now is a museum interpreting reconstruction in this area. her dissertation and her first book in progress grapples with how the races lived together and apart after emancipation, when blacks could control where they moved and lived, but before the era of jim crow and formal segregation. columbia she tells us provided an ideal site to examine these questions because the fire of 1865 damaged so much of the livable space in the city so that questions about space and access and rights were put into sharp relief. she's received research fellowships and most recently spent six months in washington, d.c. as the german historical institute's fellow in african-american h

yale university holding a major summit in washington this week bringing together titans of business anditics. a key theme, how corporate america can hope to thrive and compete on a global stage. joining us to tell us what they're buzzing about, the senior associate for executive programs at the yale school of management. he put together a huge day in washington. i see steve miller from aig is on your list. chris dodd all sorts of people. what do you think, if there was one topic you think is going to be on the tips of everybody's tongue it is what jeff? >> we began yesterday afternoon but it was a major deviedivide. the positive attitude was from the business community. but you know richard. there's a good sense of enthusiasm. we had senator mccain, senator murphy, there's where a sense of dispair and it was remarkably different. in fact at one point he got mad at me. truly mad at me over the conference theme. the theme was the return of the american century and he asked me, what are you talking about? what rock have you been sleeping under? they laugh but they're quite euphoric. of cou

now he's with yale university. >> good to see you. >> jeremy siegel said he's more cautious now thanne of the concerns is 42 ever-strengthening dollar that he thinks will continue when the fed raises rates. what do you think about this and how does it play out? >> look the currency bogey has been a big source of instability in the world. qe was negative for currencies. it was negative for the dollar. now for the yen and the euro. that's pushing on a broad base sis against all the major currencies. up maybe 12% to 13% over the last four years. which is not inconsequential but not as dramatic as these unadjusted indexes on your screens. but if we are going to be raising rates while this easing is taking place everywhere else how does that eventually hurt us or does it? >> well again, the dollar is an important relative price for the earnings that go to s&p 500 companies overseas. in a sluggish global climate, the relative price change together with activity is a head wind. >> mr. bearish u.s. consumer. you are mr. bearish -- you used to be. >> you remember. >> so if that's the only --

it was from yale very good university. but i felt like i graduated without a skill, and this -- you write about this in the book. we heard from president obama but this is an issue it seems like republicans and democrats actually come together and agree on this. you're making the opposite case, that a general liberal arts education is the best way for young people to prepare themselves for a career. why? >> this mantra about skills-based education has achieved that rare status in washington. it's the one thing that democrats and republicans agree on, the one thing obama and john boehner probably agree on, but it's wrong. traditionally america has always believed unlike in europe where they always thought apprenticeship and skills and very specific job-based training, we believed that a broad-based education is the best thing you can do because you teach people how to think, how to read how to study, how to write. and that those broad skills -- and most importantly, perhaps you teach them to follow their curiosity and to ki

, stockton officers will soon team up with criminal law professors and researchers from universities including yale the focus, enhancing what's already working and fixing what's not. >> get a bad experience with the police. i don't like the police. >> reporter: in stockton, lemoore abrams, kpix 5. >> the department of justice has asked stockton as to take part in the national program and the chief has agreed to do it. >>> a recall for doing something a little too well. why chevy says the volt needs some tweaking. >> the strike that's crippled west coast refineries may be settled. the announcement just hours ago that could get the plant up a >>> there's a chance we could soon see an end to the spike in gas prices. striking workers at tesoro refinery in martinez will go back to work as soon as they approve a new contract. steelworkers reached an agreement with shell to end the strike that has affected a dozen refineries. the labor dispute and an explosion at a southern california refinery last month are blamed in part to rising prices. so there's been no shortage of car recalls over the past year. bu

and i went to yale undergrad and university of law school.ssor at places like tulane and sued lawyers for malpractice in california and even sued lawyers for obama and the fdic over the failed banks. i have been all around. and one of my complaints, i guess, is two things. a sort of lack of diversity in the legal profession including academia within the latino. and also at the federal government latinos are only about 8% of the federal employees. and most of them are candors. so at the level i was of being a lawyer i was the only loy lawyer. and i don't think harvard had a tenure tenured latino professor either. i wonder what your thoughts are about having latinos in the legal profession and specifically education. and the other thing i have since i live in havana and i have been a socialist all of my life i see there is not a socialist voice in the united states. there is a gallop poll in 2010 that said 37% of americans have a favorable view of socialism but at the politics bernie sanders is the only socialist. in the "the new york times" yo

outmaneuver discriminatory admissions policies that eliminated the romans at universities such as harvard, princeton and yale chinese immigrants disguise themselves to pass as mexicans and entered the u.s. from the u.s.-mexico border during the era when chinese were excluded from emigrating to the united states. in 1907 a u.s. government investigation discovered these photographs attached to fraudulent mexican citizenship papers. the rate of vazquez a cuban born woman passed as a veteran soldier to fight in the civil war and entered the ranks of numerous women who joined the military or participated in occupations and activities restricted to men. men passed as straight also known as putting their hair up, and married women and work in professions that would have been unavailable to them if they had quote let their hair down. and the flamboyant jazz saxophonist born to russian jewish immigrants passed as black to shore up his musical credentials. here i have identified only a handful of examples of a sweeping phenomenon to demonstrate its flexibility and its adaptability to various historical contexts. the p

he they outmaneuvered the discriminatory policies that limit enrollment at universities such as harvard princeton and yale. a chinese immigrants disguised themselves to pass and enter from the us-mexico border during the era when chinese were excluded from emigrating immigrating to the united states. in 1907, the u.s. government investigation discovered these photographs attached to fraudulent mexican citizenship papers. they participated in occupations and activities restricted to men. men passed us straight also known as putting their hair up. married women and worked in professions that would have been unavailable to them if they had let their hair down. here's identified only a handful of examples of a sweeping phenomenon to demonstrate its flexibility and its adaptability to the various historical contexts terri at the poor process the rich, winning pass as men of the jews pass as gentiles, men and women passed as straight and men sometimes as black. it was plausible given specific conditions and circumstances. particularly in the societies with relatively open and fluid social orders, the permutatio

stanford university's endowment has named robert wallace to head the billion-dollar fund. he previously worked at the renowned yale investment office. he is leaving after nine years at the head of the stanford endowment. the first lawsuits have been filed in the new open internet rules. the suits were filed by alamo broadband and u.s. telecom, a telecom lobbying group. they say the government does not have the authority to prohibit the blocking or slowing of internet traffic. and are you ready for the first nfl game to be broadcast almost exclusively on the internet? the game in london between the jacksonville jaguars and the buffalo bills will be available only on digital platforms. it will air on television, but only in buffalo and jacksonville. the digital platform has not been decided on. the league has signed a partnership with youtube. google may have escaped an investigation without antitrust charges, but there is more to the story according to "the wall street journal." fcc staffers found that google -- ftc staffers found that google acted in anticompetitive ways, including boosting its own search results

often and i expose this in new york magazine in 2005 with yale which covered up for 20 years sexual assaults it's actually a way for the university'slawyers to protect the university from exposure of these criminal investigations so i'd say if a crime takes place on campus whether it's in a fraternity or anywhere have the jurisdiction of the local police and hold these people accountable. >> i would never defend what we all saw take place on that bus at the university of oklahoma nor that which is coming to light via facebook at penn state university. but when i look at those incidents i wonder if they represent a failure to manage alcohol than exacerbated or life shown on them by social media. i think we need to demystify booze. i'm an advocate for lessening the drinking age zmxt how would you do that with young people >> i think what's taking place is that colleges across the country have all -- all clamped down on drinking underage drinking and i recognize they are trying to respect the law that was imposed about i the feds but what they have done is driven it underground. i lived in a house where beer was plentiful. we were con

it shows el harvard -- el, yale, harvard, princeton have underfunded their computer science programs. you look at the bottom, universitynois has been one of the most prolific in terms of funding their computer science department. maybe this is just a catch up here. fareed: what you are looking at there is something slightly different. the big elite universities have typically spent a lot more money on basic science rather than technology. you look at harvard's physics department, you would be awestruck. math, things like that, they tend to be stronger than computer science which was regarded as an applied science. that is a slightly different issue. if you look at stanford, what's interesting they are trying to figure out how do you marry technology with the liberal arts. they're coming up with majors like math and music. look at their design school it's an incredible case of liberal arts, design, architecture and technology altering to work together because that is where america is going to be. mark zuckerberg says the key insights that made him make facebook what it was was a, not technological. the internet was the

he is now a professor of law at cornell university but presently visiting at yale lawng school. so hce is a man of many schools. >> host: he is your coauthor iner c the book? >> guest: yes. >> host: another call from the bronx.rnoo hi leo. >> caller: how are you doing? >> host: good. >> caller: my question for professor guiner, my understanding that associate justice clarence thomas is beneficiary of affirmative action yet he is opposed to affirmative action. do you have any thoughts about this contradiction? >> host: what is your view, leo, of affirmative action so-called, affirmative action? >> caller: i just think people should be judged by their abilities. but it is just that it is just that if someone takes a position someone is a beneficiary of something, and turns around and says, hey, i'm against it, it looks like the contradictory.it or they're, or they're vacillating. i mean i expect someone who is a judge to have some consistent theories and concepts as to whats the law is. >> host: thank you h sir. professor guiner. >> guest: well leo, you're f asking somebody who kn

university of denver. elizabeth widera, graduate of yale law school. tell us about your organization constitutional accountability center is what? >> so we are a nonprofit nonpartisan law firm think tank and action center that is devoted to the progressive promise of the u.s. constitution. and we work in the courts and with the public to engage the conversation over the meaning of the constitution and rule of law in this country. >> both of our guests were inside the court for oral arguments this past week. john in maryland, republican line, good morning. >> good morning. i'd like to ask your guests what their position is on the forthcoming decision on the affordable care act, whether you would like to see it held constitutional, or do you want the people to win. >> i think they probably answered that but give them a chance to respond again. elizabeth. >> just first, this is not a constitutional case like the first time we were up before the court. last time court considers aca it was a constitutional challenge. this time statutory interpretation case.

near and i have been for the last 20 or years a legal academic first at the university of chicago law school and now at yale. my research focuses on criminal law policy and procedure and understanding the dynamics of violent crime in urban areas. i have been focused on policing and justice and this work we have been doing over the last six weeks has been extremely gratifying professionally for me but also an amazing opportunity to hear from experts like you but also voices from the community and people who have lost their children and struggling every day trying to deal with issue of crime in their community and how to best come up with a strategy to have policing and law enforcement be accountable for them. i am glad we are ending with a panel on policing for the future because it is my hope the report is a launching pad for change. >> good morning. i am brittany. and 200 days ago today you would never convince me i would have spent the last six months standing on streets, very close to my childhood home, standing up for justice standing up for some of the 20,000 young people that i serve in my full-time j

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university of maryland i say i went to university of maryland people go that is lovely. you say you go to duke or harvard or yalef the top tier schools that people look at you differently and regard you differently and make in most cases correct assumptions. doesn't that count for something? >> it can be an advantage and those schools are really great schools. we have to keep it in perspective. this table shows in any survey of successful people shows that they come from all sorts of educational pedigrees. the oo when you say duke is wonderful. not getting that does not mean you will get ahead. >> i agree. >> that is what we cannot lose sight of. >> a lot of it comes from the rankings. how have the rankings effected the way the colleges pursue them the way they live by these? >> colleges pursue students to get acceptance rates down. they want to rise in these rankings because americans love rankings. they love to have judgment out to surveys. there might be a best school for you but no objective best school. that is why putting too much faith and attention to rankings is a big mistake. >> i realize you are sayin