pete: doctor, we cover a lot of crazy stories about academia. great to cover a good one like this. you are a veteran. probably aren't many college veterans who are vets how much of your own background colors your decision here. >> i was a soldier in the gulf war and after that have been connected to the department of defense ever since. i have done research. psychologist by training. done research over the years on veterans issues. i started the national center for veterans studies at the university of utah. so i have been connected and sensitive and aware of veterans issues from the very beginning of my career. and we have been attentive to veterans' challenges. as you know, we have been at war for quite a number of years now. so we feel like we need to do a part -- we need to do some of the lift and we need to help. pete: good on you doctor, for students and parents watching where can they go to get more information. go to the university of memphis. go to our web paige memphis.edu. number of connection. we will help you. we will assist those students and connect them to the right

. >> who is a leader you admire in business or philanthropy, or academia? >> i worked for a great ceo at lockheed martin. he came from the humblest of circumstances and was a grunt marine in vietnam. got his first job building aircraft and was the ceo of lockheed martin. never lost the ability to connect with people. in case i left anyone off the list, i was going to say you next. >> does bill clinton's meeting with loretta lynch help make a decision told the press release? >> yes. it was that meeting in conjunction with loretta and loretta's decision to know she would not recuse herself but accept my recommendation. at that point, i decided as much as i like her this would not have credibility with the american people if i announce it standing next to her. i never thought i would be in that situation. given where we are, worse would be standing there having the american people having doubts about the work she said she would accept doing it separately. people can disagree about it but we thought we would have to do bad not worse. >> the justice department l

general hayden said the intel community like law enforcement officers, like people in journalism, like academia, the one thing they have in common that donald trump is attacking is they are fact-based. they don't always get the facts right but they are driven by facts and that is something that obviously doesn't play in donald trump's benefit so he has to attack. do you agree with general hayden's assessment? >> i do. we ran into this almost immediately on january 6 of 2017 when we went up to trump tower to brief then president-elect and his team on the intelligence community assessment and right a away and i think the president has been consistent that anything that casts doubt on the legitimacy of his election he has problems with. so that was the bad news, the truth to power we were serving up to him and that's been an issu issue. we have alternative facts and relative truth and that's anathema to anyone in the information business. >> one thing you used to do in your previous incarnation is you used to go up every january and february and give the threat briefing and line up the major threa

i was treated well in this country when i go to into academia, and our students need to be prepared for the world. host: all right. in some other headlines, the "washington post" reports that president trump's now former attorney met with russians at trump's tower. at trumpohen met tower in new york days before the inauguration with a russian billionaire who was sanctioned this year by the u.s. government. host: charlie is on the line calling from roslyn heights, new york. charlie, do you think that college commencement speeches have become too political? caller: no, not at all. the conservatives have been political since the beginning of time in this country, and when the liberal progressives start speaking up and getting more political, all of a sudden they say it is more political. i think it is good to educate the students of reality and the world, just like the other speaker said. i think there is some confusion as to be in a progressive and be at a liberal is. it is not just being a woman or a black -- that does not mean you are a progressive. just because they are a woman or a bl

law enforcement, academia we could go down the list, science. as general hayden said, all of the fact-based institution this is country has built its foundation on over the past several centuries. and i wonder if you do have to be a psychiatrist to figure out that that's donald trumps intent. >> i don't know if you have to be a psychiatrist or just a political analyst. he is going for the jugular. he's fighting as hard as he can to save himself and his presidency and he's attacking targets that let's be honest the public has had some suspicion for. the idea that there's a cabal of elitists in washington, that's something americans have felt for a couple centuries, this suspicion toward washington and central pow er. it's the cynical way that it's being exploited that i find disturbing. we depend on these agencies for our security as a country and bashing them everyday the way the president does causes harm. and to bash the news media -- it was only a decade or so that the arrival of cnn to cover a demonstration or protest in eastern europe and g

again, it's frustrating, steve, to see the mainstream media and others in academia now as well, take that hamas narrative and run with it at the end of the day, there is not much that separates hamas from isis over the past several years. hamas has fired rockets, missiles at israel suicide bombings, terror tunnels and all the rest. steve: i know it still, each the parents have reached out. nothing from the principal. eric, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you, steve. steve: going to step aside. jonathan turley coming up next. non-small cell lung canc . .non-small cell lung canc who'd say no to a...? who wouldn't want a chance to live longer. opdivo (nivolumab). over 40,000 patients have been prescribed opdivo immunotherapy. opdivo can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in your body and affect how they work. this may happen during or after treatment has ended, and may become serious and lead to death. see your doctor right away if you experience new or worsening cough; chest pain; shortness of breath; diarrhea; severe stomach pain or tenderne

your thoughts about what's going on in academia and why republicans don't take seriously about achieving ideological diversity. >> i work for turning point u.s.a. and this is what we are confronting head-on. i think ought reason democrats and republicans alike don't take it seriously because they don't understand how bad it has gotten. conservative thinkers are under attack. you have students against white supremacy that shout down student for capitalism. they are socialists. they refer to people who wear blue blazers as the symbol of white supremacy. i was at a campus in minnesota that said somebody wearing a blue blazer was the costume for white supremacy. lou: that is stunning. that's one i hadn't heard before. there is so much that's being ginned up by the left in this country. watching the dimms at gina haspel's confirmation hearing. those are some of the nastiest people i have ever seen. utterly disgusting. >> it's so typical unfortunately of democrats in the last 10-15 years for them to turn something so crucial and important as this nomination into a stupid partisan fight in whic

[applause] >> who's a leader you admire in business or philanthropy or academia? >> i worked for a great ceo of lockheed martin in bob stephens who came from the humblest of circumstances, was a grunt marine in vietnam who got his first job helping build aircraft and grew up to be the ceo of lockheed martin and never lost that ability to connect to people and to try to get the truth from them, so i admire him a lot. i'll stop there. in case a lift anyone off the list, i was going to say you next. [laughing] >> did bill clinton's meeting with loretta lynch influence your decision. >> yes. it wasn't, it was the meeting in conjunction with loretta who i like very much and had known a long time. her decision to announce that she would not recuse herself but would accept my recommendation and that of the career prosecutors. at that point i decided, as much as i like loretta, this result will not have credibility with the american people if i announce it standing next to her. and so never thought i'd be, thought of this as a fife and your flood, never thought i'd be in

[applause] >> was a leader you admire in business or philanthropy or academia? >> i worked for a great ceo at lockheed martin named bob stevens, who came from the humblest of circumstances, was a marine in vietnam, got his first job helping build aircraft and grow to be the ceo of lockheed martin and never lost that ability to connect with people and try and get the truth from then. i admired him a lot. in case i left anyone on off the list, i was going to say you next. >> did though clinton's meeting with loretta lynch influence the press conference? >> yes, it was the meeting in conjunction with the rather worry like very much in about a long time the decision to announce she would not recuse herself, except my recommendation and at that point, i decided as much as they liked the red outcome of this will not have credibility with the american people if i announce it standing next to her. and so, i thought this was a 500 year flood. never thought i'd be in a situation. given where we are, bad and worse, they of course have doubts about the credibility of the wo

and it's just -- you now, it's time, once you're finished in government, you ought to go to academia and not to try to play the same role. lou: by the way, do we have the president talking about john kerry today? do we have that sound? can you bring that up? it's worthwhile for all of us to see that. it's terrific. let's turn to these remarks today by the president at the nra. great speech. >> very powerful. lou: we referred to love in the room there. i mean, there was a mutual admiration society at the nra -- between the nra and this president. >> very important constituency. and what he challenged them is to get out and use all of the powers that you have in the midterm elections and that's very important that they do that. they're powerful across the country because they've got a lot of active members. lou: and the trump economy, 34.9% unemployment, the lowest unemployment rate since 2000. the lowest hispanic and african-american unemployment ever. and jarrett is trying to take credit for it today. >> again, she should have left the government a long time ago too. at the end of th