For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Alan dershowitz talks about becoming a lawyer and the many cases hes handled over the past 50 years. This hourlong program is next on booktv. [applause] welcome, everybody. Its delightful to see you all, and remarkable in a funny way for the two of us to be here, alan. I feel as if you ought to be tutoring me for one of our final exams, which you used to do. Weve known each other for over 50 years, as you just heard, and i dont know how that came to be. But you say in your book that you were a dreadful student until you went to college. That during elementary and secondary school, you were a disaster. What turned it around . I dont know. I wish i knew. In Elementary School and high school, i was a c and d student. I have in my book an actual photograph of my senior semester report card with a 60 in physics, red circle around it, 60 in math, red circle around it, 65 in history, and i managed to squeeze out an 80 in english. So i had a 67 avera
For while. I want to place, i still dont know where the location was and is taken by people in plain clothes. At the time you dont know who was interrogating you. I realized at a certain point this dvd a half in the car and they need to get rid of it. I made my way to the car. At one point i excuse myself to the bathroom, tried to destroy the dvd by breaking it apart. I dont know if youve ever tried to break apart a dvd but it is quite hard. And so i shoved it down the drain. Went back into the Interrogation Room feeling confident that ive gotten rid of evidence that could possibly keep me there for longer than i wanted to be. And about five minutes later a guy came in about them, comes in with a piece of the dvd in his hand. More with jehane noujaim, director of the square tonight at eight on cspans q a. Alan dershowitz talks with the coming a lawyer and in many cases hes handled over the past 50 years. This hourlong program is next on booktv. Welcome everybody. Its delight full its d
President obama created an Election Commission to reduce voting problems at polling places. After the release of their report the commission met with the president. I just want to say thank you publicly to all the wonderful people here who have served on the president ial commission on Election Administration. I think all of us would call recall in the last election in 2012 we had reports around the country up tremendously long lines with people when they tried to vote and in some cases for hours they were stuck. The day of the election i said we are going to need to do something about it, and i think all of us share the belief that regardless of Party Affiliation that our democracy demands that our citizens can participate in a smooth and effective way, and i called on congress to work with us but i also thought it was important for us to have bipartisan independent panel that could actually dig into the facts and try to determine what can we do to improve the situation. Unlike a lot