my saturday morning weekly program is approaching its tenth year here on cnn. thank you for that. i can this a great privilege. i m grate ful for all the regulr viewers. a quick story. back in 2006 after i was appearing regularly on cnn as a legal guest, the network told me they liked my work but didn t know what to do with me. do you have any ideas, i was asked. i do. i think the network brass were surprise d when i pitched my idea. hosting a weekly book club. i envisioned an entertainment show featuring author interviews and discussion of the best in journalism. the network was intrigued and decided to go ahead and order a pilot. we filmed it beginning with me back at home on market street in philadelphia. i remember being so nervous and having to do many, many takes. headlines plucked from today s newspaper. when you add in drama, when you add in a wisecracking whip, when you add in a sexy, smart love interest, then you can gentlien transition from the hard news to the h
Senor welcome to the program. Im dan senor filling in for charlie rose. Tonight a conversation with retired general Michael Hayden. Hes the former director of the National Security agency, and the director of Central Intelligence agency. There is a civil war going on within islam. And there a fraction of islam, not a trivial fraction, that believes that narrative. When we do these kinds of things, we seem to be living the role they say we have. We hate them, we dnt want them here. And so i fear, and the damage, the damage may already have been done. I fear we have kind of reinforced their story. But this is a clash between civilizations rather than what i really think it is, dan, the center of gravity is that this is a fight within a civilization, within islam, and by doing what we just did, to my mind, without real purpose, has actually some what hurt us within that civil war. Senor we continue with the examination of the state of free speech on College Campuses with New York Times co
Senor welcome to the program. Im dan senor filling in for charlie rose. Tonight a conversation with retired general Michael Hayden. Hes the former director of the National Security agency, and the director of Central Intelligence agency. There is a civil war going on within islam. And there a fraction of islam, not a trivial fraction, that believes that narrative. When we do these kinds of things, we seem to be living the role they say we have. We hate them, we dnt want them here. And so i fear, and the damage, the damage may already have been done. I fear we have kind of reinforced their story. But this is a clash between civilizations rather than what i really think it is, dan, the center of gravity is that this is a fight within a civilization, within islam, and by doing what we just did, to my mind, without real purpose, has actually some what hurt us within that civil war. Senor we continue with the examination of the state of free speech on College Campuses with New York Times co
Senor welcome to the program. Im dan senor filling in for charlie rose. Tonight a conversation with retired general Michael Hayden. Hes the former director of the National Security agency, and the director of Central Intelligence agency. There is a civil war going on within islam. And there a fraction of islam, not a trivial fraction, that believes that narrative. When we do these kinds of things, we seem to be living the role they say we have. We hate them, we dnt want them here. And so i fear, and the damage, the damage may already have been done. I fear we have kind of reinforced their story. But this is a clash between civilizations rather than what i really think it is, dan, the center of gravity is that this is a fight within a civilization, within islam, and by doing what we just did, to my mind, without real purpose, has actually some what hurt us within that civil war. Senor we continue with the examination of the state of free speech on College Campuses with New York Times co
By doing what we just did, to my mind, without real purpose, has actually some what hurt us within that civil war. Senor we continue with the examination of the state of free speech on College Campuses with New York Times columnist frank bruni and nyu professor Jonathan Haidt. They were all boasting about what a diverse viem they had. I had one question, i said is there a group for republican students. And they looked at me like it had never occurred to them. And there was one student there. And she said i think there is you about they maybe have one member. Now schools trip over themselves to get racial diversity. They give a lot of lip service to sewsio Economic Diversity and some do better than others but what about whole other kind of diversity. How are we going to move forward as a country if many of our top schools are graduating kids who have no without cant even begin to plo ses how a human being do vote for donald trump. Senor general Michael Hayden and free speech when we con