charlie, right now we re in the beginning of of the second quarter. obama is ahead by about a field goal, maybe more. there s a long way to play out. there s a lot of talk about how negative it is. by historical standards it isn t that negative. what s really occurred is that mitt romney who had a little momentum about a month ago has been back on his heels. rose: we conclude this evening with a conversation with david skorton, the president of cornell, an institution of higher learning much admired in the united states and abroad. for decades and i ve been in higher education for decades people told me why don t you break down the silos, why don t you have department x and department y. we re not going to have departments on this campus. we ll have areas of concentration based on the city s economy that we re calling hubs. rose: president obama, first lady michelle obama, al hunt and david skorton when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: on thursday, july 12 of last week i went to the white house reporting for cbs news to talk to president obama and the first lady michelle obama. we talk of many things, both political and personal. we also went outside on the balcony to talk about vacation. first the balcony and then later the conversation inside in the blue room with the president and the first lady. not a bad place to live. you know, it is gorgeous and. the humidity went down a bit for you, charlie. rose: you got a basketball court, a tennis court, a fountain. you can see the washington monument. i just always remind our kids this is rental housing. rose: (laughs) the american people have loaned us this for a little bit. rose: a year or five years, we ll see. our goal is to take good care of it and we can hand it over to the next administration in four more years. rose: how are the t
charlie, right now we re in the beginning of of the second quarter. obama is ahead by about a field goal, maybe more. there s a long way to play out. there s a lot of talk about how negative it is. by historical standards it isn t that negative. what s really occurred is that mitt romney who had a little momentum about a month ago has been back on his heels. rose: we conclude this evening with a conversation with david skorton, the president of cornell, an institution of higher learning much admired in the united states and abroad. for decades and i ve been in higher education for decades people told me why don t you break down the silos, why don t you have department x and department y. we re not going to have departments on this campus. we ll have areas of concentration based on the city s economy that we re calling hubs. rose: president obama, first lady michelle obama, al hunt and david skorton when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from
charlie, right now we re in the beginning of of the second quarter. obama is ahead by about a field goal, maybe more. there s a long way to play out. there s a lot of talk about how negative it is. by historical standards it isn t that negative. what s really occurred is that mitt romney who had a little momentum about a month ago has been back on his heels. rose: we conclude this evening with a conversation with david skorton, the president of cornell, an institution of higher learning much admired in the united states and abroad. for decades and i ve been in higher education for decades people told me why don t you break down the silos, why don t you have department x and department y. we re not going to have departments on this campus. we ll have areas of concentration based on the city s economy that we re calling hubs. rose: president obama, first lady michelle obama, al hunt and david skorton when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: on thursday, july 12 of last week i went to the white house reporting for cbs news to talk to president obama and the first lady michelle obama. we talk of many things, both political and personal. we also went outside on the balcony to talk about vacation. first the balcony and then later the conversation inside in the blue room with the president and the first lady. not a bad place to live. you know, it is gorgeous and. the humidity went down a bit for you, charlie. rose: you got a basketball court, a tennis court, a fountain. you can see the washington monument. i just always remind our kids this is rental housing. rose: (laughs) the american people have loaned us this for a little bit. rose: a year or five years, we ll see. our goal is to take good care of it and we can hand it over to the next administration in four more years. rose: how are the t