Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. President obama today once again appealed for calm following the news that a new york doctor who treated ebola patients in africa has been hospitalized with the disease himself. We have to be guided by the facts, not fear. Yesterday, new yorkers showed us the way. They did what they do every day jumping on buses, riding the subway, crowding into elevators, heading into work, gathering in parks. That spirit, that determination to carry on is part of what makes new york one of the greatest cities in the world. Sreenivasan in new jersey today, a 30yearold nur
Duke rape case. I am talking about the duke lacrosse scandal once known as the rape case. It happened in 2006, march 2006. To april 2007. By the way, it is still ongoing. That is another topic. At the time, it was the flight 370 at the time. Everybody was focused. When i went back to researching this and to study this and write about as a duke alum, i wanted to know what happened. There was never a trial and i wanted this book to be the trial that never happened. I was surprised at how few people wanted to talk about this. How few people were very happy with the outcome that had been resolved by the attorney general of North Carolina who declared these boys innocent which is a very unusual legal term usually in a court of law, somebody is declared not guilty or guilty. The concept of innocence is foreign to the legal profession. I wanted to know what happened here. I was shocked at how difficult it was to get people to talk to me, including people at duke. When i spoke to Dick Brodhead
The duke lacrosse scandal and the power of the lead in the corruption of our great university. Why did you expand it beyond the scandal itself . Amazed at a was couple of things as i did my research into this. Number one, duke, an institution is not that much different than a wall street bank that i have written three other books about. It is a very secretive institution. They have their myths and ways of doing business. In theve a lot of power state of North Carolina and a nationally. They have a huge source of wealth in their endowment which is approaching 9 billion in the midst of a 3 billion endowment campaign. Certainly in the top 10. I think m. I. T. Has 10 billion. Harvard has 33 billion, 30 4 billion. They have an ambition to be in that wink. That is part of the story. Ambition. Kes the school is only 75 years old. 350 eurosat the school that harvard is. Part of the reason that duke has the new president is because he was the former dean of yale college and wellrespected educat
They want to know how this happened. Why this is allowed to happen and when and why wind it discovered sooner. The failed pipeline dominated the conversation this morning. Commenting we were thankful it was just water. There are of course all of our neighborhoods right here. All this brush and we just imagined how horrible it would be had a gas explosion i go nighted immediately and we would have lost our homes. Reporter pg e was testing the line by pumping water at a higher than normal pressure when it ruptured. This is the purpose to find any weaknesses in the pipe, much higher pressure we would normally operate at. For thus is a success. Reporter consumer advocates advocates say they would hardly classify this as a success. It is their responsibility, if there is a problem, they are supposed to find the problem and fix it before theres a pipeline failure, not after. Success is locating and fixing pipeline problems before they explode in testing or in real life. Reporter pg e is test
Parks stalker, on valentines day or any day, mike barnicle. Its getting warm enough. It is getting warm up. The problem is hes got the reflector shades on, and they steam up. When its this cold outside, they steam up and he cant. Its hard. When its cold, its easier because i can wear the scarf across the lower. Thats just gross. Ski mask. Ski mask. Whoo you see his picture in a lot of 7elev 7elevens. Also, Steve Rattner. In washington, director, president and ceo of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars, jane harman. Jane, thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you, joe. Greatly appreciate it. Happy valentines day. Happy valentines day. Willie, im so glad janes here by the way, mikas in the south of france. Were going to be talking about obviously leon panetta. Boy, a blistering attack against congress. Cant wait to talk to jane about that. Also, john mccains changing his tune. We praised him yesterday. So he had to reverse course, i guess. So now hes talking a