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Why did you call your new book the girls in the balcony . The balcony is a wise about any of the National Press club. The institution until just 20 years ago. And win in 1955 the men decided that they would let anyone into cover to report on events, they put it in a very narrow, extremely uncomfortable about any at the far end of the ball room. Guest but just 20 years ago i was standing this that balcony. We could not ask questions, we were not allowed. It was, um, it was frustrating. And so one...

Since at least some of the drama surrounding speeches involved protesters perspective that the day should be about the graduates and not the arguably, contentious views of the speakers. But that is not the path that the speakers at haverford and smith chose. William bowen, former president of Princeton University and Andrew Mellon foundation was as another of Honorary Degree recipients already scheduled to speak sunday at haverfords ceremony. En in his first bite of the apple as he called the in...

> william smyser is the author of "the kennedy and the berlin wall." a hell of a lot better than the berlin war. next, he talks about the berlin crisis of 1961 and the event hosted by the national archives in october of 2011. the berlin crisis is a milestone of the cold war. built in august of 1961, the wall separated the city in two parts -- east and west. two months later, in october of 1961, soviet and u.s. tanks faced off at the border. >> i want to express my appreciation to the...

like [inaudible] we cant allow other exciting opportunities. thank you. [applause] >> he discussed this turbulent period with angela sten it. the director for georgetown and eastern european studies. ♪ >> im angela stent. im the director of the eastern youre red flag studies at georgetown university. and its my great pleasure to introduce to you edward kemp. kennedy and khrushchev and the most dangerous place on book. fred kempe is the syria of the atlantic of the united states which...

>> he discusses to this tur blen period. from angela stent. >> im angela stent. im director for the center of eurasian, and east european studies at georgetown university and it is my great pleasure to introduce you to frederick kempe, author of "berlin, 1961:kennedy, khrushchev and the most dangerous place on earth." he had a distinguished career as a journalist. his last position being the editor of the european "wall street journal." hes the author of a number of books, among them s...

spend the american peoples money, there will be no increase in the debt limit. were not talking about billions here. we should be talking about cuts in trillions. >> all right. good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, may 10th. what a beautiful day here in new york city. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. whats with the running gear? >> its a free shirt. >> it reads green on the monitor. >> its stretchy. okay. >> i think clash. >> does that...