She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Strauss. [applause] and richard, the third, these are my two coauthors. [applause] so just a bit of introduction, i taught for ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, before i transferred all of my activities h
When the government turns on you and you are defenseless. They can pretty much but there government behind them self to crush you in many ways. I had a gentleman visit with me and he refused to give the Bush Administration the names of all of the clients after nine 11. He said i cant do it, so they came up with some backdated options and put them in jail. They spent 30 million defending himself. If you read it it is quite amazing to see what went on. This is the hysterical kneejerk reaction after 9 11. Its a a horrible thing of course, but why. But then on my side of the coin were talking i said yeah, gave Osama Bin Laden support, he had a 14,000,000 dollar Million Dollar count. He lived in cambridge, massachusetts. No connection. But granted you think theres a connection he might want to go down that path, but they had no interest in doing that. Then i told them when i gave the account of the middle east and geneva they set out thats in enough account. We had 7,000,000,000 dollars. We
Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introduction, i talked fori t ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum, over that time, i taught a course on introductory astrophysics and i got very popular and people liked it and we moved to vickers pace and we realized we could charge, we could energize the course even more by adding other talent that has particular exper
Congressional critics. A look at economic and Security Issues discussed in tonights the week ahead. Plus he helped solve some of the most heinous crimes in the civil rights ecram Jerry Mitchell. Its londons version of Academy Awards patch honoring hollywoods best. The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could set up a political battle for the ages. A day after the 79yearold was found dead of an apparent heart attack at a texas ranch the question of who would replace him was the subject on capitol hill including, when the successor should be chosen. Mike viqueria has the story from washington, d. C. Good evening, lori jane. No sooner had the notice of the death of antonio been released, nominated by Ronald Reagan back in 1986, a fight began in earnest. Fight said president obama is a lame duck, she hold up, he should wait for the people to speak via the Elections Come november and the republicans hope if it is a new republican president give that individual an opportunity to n
Welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im del walters and flags flying half state in washington in honor of scalia. Preparations underway for his funeral and his body is back in virginia after his death in texas and sparked a partisan battle on who may take his place on the Supreme Court and vowing to block the nomination and vibing vikara begins the coverage. Reporter took america and congress by surprise the death of Justice Scalia after being on the bench since 1996 appointed by ronald regan and hot button of the cultural war the battles fought for decades now handled by the Supreme Court that this has already become such a volatile issue and consider the docket for the balance of the Supreme Court term, cases involving affirmative action, involving abortion, involving pos executive actions on immigration and whether or not they are going to be legal. These are vital issues not only to americans in general but in an Election Year to the base of both parties both conserv