more than, that we need our supreme court justices to he an understaing ofhe real world,the impactheir desions have on everyday peple we ne justic whose wisdom com from lifenot just from lawbooks. sadly, this important quity ems to be in short upply. th current supreme court has issued many decions that i tnk represent ariumph of ideogy over common sense. when chief justice roberts came fore this committee in 200 he famously said a supre court jusce it like an umpire calling balls a strike. we have observed unfortunately, that it's a litt hard to sow hemo plate from right fid. being a supreme court justi we as easy as callng balls and strikes we wouldn't see my 5-4 decisions the court, but in the last year alone, 23 of the supreme court's 74 decisions wer decided by a 5-4 vote. the recent decision of ledbetter vers goodyear tire and rubber is a classicxample of the supreme court putngctivism over common sens the queson in that case was simple. fundamental. should women be paidhe same as men for t same work. liy ledbert was a manager at a goodyear tire plantin alabama. worked there for

my inteest is ieally trying to understa whetr women have inhited genes that we can test for, and by testing those genes identified tho with the highest risk over the courof the 15 years, we have co to reale that the are in facsomeenes that produce breast cancer. we have studied famies, and i can tellou when we have entified women withhese genes, when they have come in to do preventative strategies to prevent dying from breast cancer, we he seen great success. at has been fstrating is when we see young women like cheryl who at 40 did not have a strong family history, didnot have anyeason tget breast cancer, and isovercome with a adly form of the disease. it is very disappointing to us. tt is really got us to focus whetherhere are differces between populatio in terms of t types of breast cancer thathey get. because w work on the south side of chago, we see a diverse population of women. one ofhe thingse found is that blacwomen were getting this type of triple native breast cancer muchore commonly th their white counrparts. tavis: why is that? doou know as yet? >> tt is the million-dollar ques

but my understaing of the process is that it' not based on those picy ilications of an outcome, it's based with on different question than that. >> well let me conclude on one oer case tat you ruled on where i also agree wi your cision. that ford versuscginnis and you wrote a unanimous pan opinn overturning a jgment finding in favor o the musli inmate died byrison officials acce toeligious meals markingthe endf ramadan. and you head his fundamntal rits were violated a the opinns of the department of correction and religious authorities cannot trump the plain and sincre religious beliefs. the freedom of religionis a basic pnciple in our constitution as i sid in my opening mments. it was nder of the reasons why my grandparets came to america. the freem of religion expression is a truly ndamental american right. pleasehare your ilosophy, mayb it is the wrong use of terms, themportance of the provision in th constitution and how you would go abt dealin with cases that cou affect that fundamental right in r constitution. >> i don't mean to befunny, but the court has held that it's fundant

that like spend that much time invested in yourself -- invest in yourselfnd still not say, i do not understas guy? >> itis a weird feeng to never have a finish line. is fulfilling. it is like a relationsp with the charter. it is alys growing. i do not think about him too much anymore, only talking to u about it, and never once in awhile when i lookt film. it isulfilling. tavis: fascinating, interesng. jeremy renner is h name. the new film is cled "the hur locker." it is probablyhe mostalked- about fi excted to arrive of all the ones that have come out. che it out. in taters as we spe. jeremy, nicto have you here. that is our ow for toght. a catche on the weekendsn public rao international ccess to ready a pcast on our website, -- access or radio podcast our website, pbs.o. good night from los aeles, and as aays, keep the faith. >> for more inrmation on tod's show, visit tavis smil on pbs.org. tavis: i tavis smiley. to me nextime for a look at the memorial service -- join me next time for a look at th memorial servi for micha jackson a my coersation with berry gordy. >> there are so many thin

i can understa why we are doing. ase continue to work through recsions, that nge stays in place. and i think the best thing to do is keep broadening out on the basis of financial strength so when we ok at 2011, 1 and 1these coanies will have imuch better profilen the marketplace. >>ll right, interesting alysis. thank yoso much for coming on the program. >> you are very welcome. >>ie guest joe battiglia >> sus: my guest tonight: joe battipaglia of stifel colaus. >> jeff: n, let's take a look at some stocks in the news tonight. and ose are the stocks in the news tonight, susie. >> susie: jeff, now thateneral motors andhrysler are out of bankrupt, the head of the present's auto task force is stepping down. steven rattner ireturning to prive life in new york city. replacing hiwill be former stlworkers union leader ron bloom. the taskorce's main job now is to oversee the governmens ste in chrysler, g.m., and its g.m.a.c. financialervices arm. >> jeff:eanwhile, just four days out of bankruptcy andhe new general motors igetting down to siness. g.'s working with a private equity firm to

leesburg officials say their police department is severely understaed. that police force is entrusted with keeping the 36,000 residents of leesburg safe. officials say they have 20 fewer officers on the streets tha neighboring communities. darcy spencer joins us live in the city with more. >> reporter: fortunately the hostage situation ended with a peaceful surrender. it's also renewing debate in leesburg about police staffing. some are saying there aren't enough cops. it was a frightening ordeal in leesburg. this man, 49-year-old spencer allegedly robbed the pawnshop, eludes police, steals a car and holds an elderly couple hostage for eight hours before surrendering to authorities. >> this is what you hope for. the resolution we got out of it is exactly what we wanted to occur. no one got hurt. >> reporter: fortunately the situation ended peacefully. it's raised concerns the police department is understaffed. leesburg councilman says more cops are needed to keep the community safe. >> if you have more police and the criminal element knows about it, you'

they donot understa thatour relaonship is based on affection. based on ith. nd is a father/son relationsh. deon? >> i hav absolutely no idea. >> mahmud ahmadinejad, as he was responding about what was a very turbule wek. a there has been gat porting about this divide that appears to be blooming betwe the supreme leader and mahmoud ahmadinejad. w bad is the political situation in ira >> you know everybody who watches thi says that th dot know exactly what's goin to hpen next. that is clear this was a major turning point in the hiory of theislamic republ. and it can'tgo back to where it wa before, but it's also likel that the ultimate playingut of thecrisis will take a much nger time frame. and you're n going to see any major change right aw. so it's goingo destabilize the repuic in the long term, bu probably n in the short term. >> the meantime, sun, the united stas isnxiously awaiting to hearomething back the overte that the obama administtion has made. e weikely to heaanything? and if we do, are we likely to like what we hear? >> i think at, to be honest, an

the understa congress and the needs of members.hy was tomelay effective derstand the power of fear and what members need. she learned th and watched it and been in leadehip and becomes speaker and applieall of that and puts the other ople who shenows have the samenderstanding and passion around her a it worked for her. >> charlie: wh is the most interesting question you'dlike to see answered and what's the most interestinghing about president obam >> most interesting thin from president obama fro my point of view how he has transformed re relations in the country simply by him being in office. i had somebody turn to me saying if this is the quality of the first african-american president in the united stes then race relations, wle they have a long way t go, have come further than ey have t go for there fob a level of harmony in the united states. question i would like answered, que frankly, when will thi paper wind up winning a pulzer prize. the thini want to kn i guess about thebama white house stly is you never really kno hothese

on the other hand, john nyn, understas, it does not look good for someonewho has as you've listed the ratgs, very qualified ings. hispanic woman for the republican party to be out attacking. in the end, they're very kely not to win that argument, cuse me, because you've got senate ses for democrats, and it's going to alienate the hispanic vote from the republican party >> even they choosetoish upheir own so-called ideology in the questions, go for the idea of getting the base work done is that going t be more difficult than they're imagining re regarding the nominee, because of those, theecords th we just wentthrough and also is the ricci case their main course and - not like she was the judge w personally passed thathing along? >> i wld say tre's two thoughts ty'll make. the ricci case is one and the wise latino rema in thre. what did she t ethnicity and ce is a factor. and the other, ad nauseam on youtub since the dayhe was nonated about theree an appellatcourt plays in mking a law. agn, i keep coming ck to this. we talk about it andalk about it, replicans talk about , talkut it, t

only two or three peopleike that the last 50 years and i can totally understa why he is beg sell braid celebrated. i think the points by representative king is off the line at thistage of the game. >> pat chanan, what areo thoughts on what peter king h to say and michael eic dyson' comments as well? >> i don't see any racial motivation in peter king. he clearly did notlike michael jackson and clearly had some hard feelis what has been learned and allegedndll of the re of it. i do agree wth mort that the ting of this is probably not the right time an secondly, i peter king is going to run statewide, i think certain areas of new york are probably not going to be visiteby him if he is going t runor the u.s. senate. i do th -- ido thk this. there's a certain time when peopleass awaythat you give it a decent interval, whi people who loved him and appreciated him and admired m, mourn for him and you hold off your commentar during that. but i do thk the coverage of course, it has been enormous and exhaustive. i think, by and large, enormouslyavorable to micel jackson. i've never seen michael

but this president and is administrationnd perhaps others, understa that that's the place that y define, who you are, what you want, wher you want to go. whether it'sew nuclear nonproliferation, whher it's a man on the moon, wtever it is, you s the national agenda in the way you set the aspiration and then you set the action agenda by t way you propose to the congre. >> it's noty accident that lincoln is oba's favorite president. lincoln's eeches are the most brunexample wehave in american polital history of speeches that deal wit substance and als with it in a sophisticad way and 1ing an agenda. he isodeling himself after lioln. >> charlie: s there a risk we will lose, is is back to sciencend technologyhat we may just lose the leawe v not so mh because we don't intend to do it, because everybody else pecially china and india, theye very smart about whatit delivers. we stillhave some things that those countries don't hav >> charlie: wt. >> we still have the greatest research universits. >> charlie: tt's part of their agenda. the year 2025 cha says it wants tw of the top 20 great unersit

. >> chaie: here is what i don't understa about is ll, beyond how you got to this and you explained some at have beuse of your wif and paid ibute to hern lots of different ys that i've read in reading about you. i don't derstand this. when you have the ack record you did, and reputation yo do, suggested thatousing prices were going to fall, we were in for roh sledding, it could ad to exactlyhat's happened. clearly people with a lotof moneat stake should have been listenin. d they mply dismiss you? did they say, thank you very much, prossor, now go back up to new haven and write another book. >> that's at they said. >> charlie: essentially that was it. >> it is a estion of how do we judge thgs. if could have mathematical oof that a, b and c and d, case close i think i would have prailed. others ke me. >> charlie: do you believe that what weent through with all these mortgage-baed securitiesnd catastrophe that it led to that it simply was a glitch in security sings. >> i think so. >> charlie: explain. >> companies were pting togethern pools, mogages. and then selling the off to investor th

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much closer than our public today understas. in june of '67, t egtians said we're goingo destroy israel andthey thought they'd have theupport of syria and the soviet union. th israelis preempted and knocked the he out of them. after there, the hotline was us for a hot time, a cableas sento our president sayi "if you want war, you'll gewar. " now, i'msyly tryg to cate the atmosphere that in a sense we wereaptives of. we mjudged the soviet and communist threat in asia. no question abt that. but therwas a rson for i >> rose: the histo of world war ii and the fear o counism." >> that's right. >> re: back to my qstion. you believe it had war was not winnable in 1967 '68. not winnab. >> not winnable militarily. >> rose: you believedhat in '67,' 6. >> that's coect. >>. >> ros when did robert namara decide the war was wrong, wrong, terribl wrong? >> well, that's... let me answer qckly and then perhaps we should go back a bit. relative later. five, seven yrs ago,omething like that. becae at that time i ban to understand t communist threa

. >> well, i think that we need to understa within the current syste we're not lking about undering the best quality ce that we have in this coury. we definitely wa to mantain that. what we are taing about, today we' seeing physicians forced to spend all this money o red tape, spen money how to bill. spding money on how to avoid it. we're snding money on uninsured and people showi up in hospitals and puing off costs to other populations. so at the end of t day there's plenty of wastes that we can much more efciently apply in this and reallocate in ts system withoutn any way undermining the quity of ca. and that is -- that must be the fundamtal goal of health rerm. >> we're going to have to leave there. it is a subject we're going to b coming back to, i know, again and again. chris jenngs, thank yo dr. troy tipettnd professor stuar altman, thank you a three. >> than you. >> hrer: on our web site newshour.pbs.org find out about the propos to create a watdog group overseng insurance companies. >lehrer: in other news today, the dow jones industrialverage closed over 000 for the first time s

. >> rose: wha don't we understa about putin? >> we don't uerstand about putin l kinds things. the most important is the very, ve interesting set of nversations you've had about who's on top and who in a sense is going to emerge. i think the one thing that wasn't mention in that but ses to hang around is that putin is on platform where he'll stayith a very clear idea that he may welcome bk after whatever number of years it is that presidt medvedev has to serve because he wasoo young when he left office and this is a way in which in fact he's kept hisand in, maintained a very significant amnt of control over the process and ll emerge at the end of theay with a good bit of his popularity still intact. i thought i wasascinating while he continues to maintai some sious popularity in russiahe along with ahmadinejad in poll i saw just a few minutes ago were at the boom of the heap interinternaonally now, that y not war areryr. putin, i suspect itoesn't in some way but looking at the longer tm future, it would still appear to me frothe way in whi the balance is being appreciated by mo

i understa how ey it i for this town to beme consumed in e game of politics, to tn every issue into a running tally of who's upnd who down. i've heard one rublican strategist told s party that even thougthey may want to coromise, it'setter politics to go for the kil another republican senator said that defeang health care form is about breing me. so let me be clear this suspect about me. i have great health insurance and so does ery member of congre. this debates about the letters i read when i sit in t oval officeveryday and thestories i hear at tow hall meetings. if somebody told youhat there is a plan out there that i aranteed to double you health care costs over the next ten yes, that's guaranteedo result in more america losing their hlthcare and th is by far the biggest contrutor to our federal deficit, ihink most people would be oosed to that. well, at's the status quo. that's what we he right now. so if we don't change, we n't expect a differentresult. and that's why i think this is so impoant not onlyor those families out there whore struggling and whoeed some protection from

about deficit and debt because part of what's happening in this debate, is the american people are understa understandably questi ablably q huge deficits and debt we're facing right now. the feeling is, all right, we had the bank bailout, we had the recovery package, we had the supplemental, we have the budget, we're seeing numbers, trillions here and trillions there, so i think legitimately, people are saying, look, we're in a recession, i'm cutting back, i'm having to give up things, yet all i see is government spending more and more money. and that argument, i think, has been used effectively by people who don't want to change health care to suggest that somehow this is one more government program. i just want to address that point very quickly. first of all, let's understand that when i came in, we had a 1$1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit that we had already inherited. we had to immediately move forward with a stimulus package, because the american economy had lost trillions of dollars of wealth, consumers had lost through their 401(k)s, through their home values, you name it, they

what people don't understa is tt this bill would give the gao the authority taudit monery policy.nd what does thamean? that means that if the feder reserve decided year from now that because of incient inflation it was time to rse interest rates, that t congrs would say, oh, the g.a.o.s going to audit tha cision, its going to subpoe your materials,t's going to demand information from the members of the f.o.m.c., i's going to evaluate yo decision d report to congress, don't think that consistent with dependence. so ware completely open to providing any informati that congress was to make sure were using taxpayer money safeland soundly, that we are meeng all our responbilities. i don't think the amican people want ngress running metary policy, and i thk that's very, vy critical for pele to understand. lehrer: and do you think that's what - wouldnd up doing >exactly. that's wt it would do. the's a provision in that lawsuit which currentl current law, whi carves out monetary policy, and it doesn't giv congress authori or gao authoritto audit it. that was put in, in 1978, aa time when

. >> rose: i'll get to the choices in a moment but i want to make sure we understa that. main street going to react to a deficit? is that wh has happened or will the marketseact and main street will be frightened by e reaction of the market is that the way itwill happen? >> i was particurly fascated by the last two really mor polls. the cbs/"new york times" ll an the "wall street journa/nbc poll. eacheleased two wee ago and they botasked about the deficit. i thought it was qui surprising tt the public registered already-- before having seen e outlines of these much worse deficits-- twice as much concern about the deficit as, for examp, heth care. and for the last thr or four year, health care on e domestic ledr has been number one. so alreadyhe public sing by a two to one mainwe're more worried about the deficit than we are about hlth care." no ask yourself a ye from now when the deficit outlk thate're discussing he becomes the univeal vw what the public reaction will be. i spect it will be nsiderably more adverse an we saw in last month's poll a there will be a lot of pr

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she has deep understaing of the real lives of amerins and the duty of law enforcent to help ke americanseedoms thafine america. now, unfornately, someone sought to twi her records and her record tongage in potical attacks. ideological essure groups began atacking her een before thpresidt made his selectn. they then stepped up their tacks by threatening republican senators who do not oppose her. that's not the american wayand that should not be t senate way. and in truth we do not have to speculate power what kind of justice she will be because we have seen what kind of a judge she has been. she is a judge in which all americs can have coidence. she habeen a judge for all americans. she'll be a justice r all americans. by rankndepublin on -- senatoon this committee reflected confirmation process recently saying what i found was thcharges complyingfrom righto-left, they are supported and false. it's very, very difficul for a nominee to push back. so i think we have a high responsibility base y criticisms we ha on a fair and honest statent of the facts and that nomination not be subjecd to

. >> smehow maa has helped bring the converti --i don't understa, must be the dunkin' donuts.t obama contues a full force efft to reshape u.s. relations with russia. it comes in a speech from moscow aimed the militiamen people. in a prate meeting with pri ministerladimir putin. >> we think tre's an excellent opportunitto put u.s russian relations on auch stnger footing. we may not end up agreeing on everything, but i think we can have a mutual respect and constation that will ser the ameran and russian people less. >> could he look any le interested? seously. >> they dot cae. >> they are trying to deliberately send a message that they don't care. the russian leadershi and i'm serious abo this, t are tryi to be as disrespectful to the american president as possible a i don't like it. if i'm psident obama, i'd tl themo straighten up or cme home. ofourse i don't do that. seriously, they are -- lke we said, with the hanhaking. there was a picture of the president going over to shake medvedev's hand and he's still looking straight ahead. >> there's an icy relationip and they are no