even john paul stevens who does his own first draft. justice stevens as i will leave the bench when i stopped doing my first draft. justice scalia is that way. >> host: i love to pick up an opinion of a justice scalia whether it be the tax or bankruptcy or the most out of your topic, and somehow he brings it to life. i mean, i think you talk about that a great deal in the book about how somehow he is able to write, not everybody in law can be boring. it's not born when he writes. isn't that right? >> guest: yes. no, he is very engaged. and that's what twomey to him is that he's engaged in the subject. and he is sort of interest in the world at large. i found that during our conversations together, he would often respond to my questions by answering and asking other questions, just about different ideas, different topics, different things others have said about him. >> host: what made him what he is today? tell me about his upbringing and his parents and a little bit about that. >> guest: he has an unusual life story and that not only wa

justice john paul stevens is another who does his own first draft and in fact justice stevens says i will stop when i leave the bench and justice scalia is the same way and i think the writing shows. >> host: i think it does, too peery i love to pick up an opinion of justice scalia whether it be a tax or bankruptcy or the most obscure topic and somehow he brings it to life. i think you talk about that a great deal in the book but house and how he is able to write, not everybody can -- the law can be boring. it's not boring when he writes. is in the right? >> guest: , yes -- no, he is very engaged and that is what drew me to him he is engaged in his subject and sort of interested in the world of large, and i found that during our conversations together he would often respond to my questions by answering and then asking other questions just about different ideas, different topics, different things others had said about him. >> host: tell me about his biography. i mean, what made him what he is today? tell me about his upbringing and education and his parents and a little about that. >>

[laughter] otherwise kennedy will choose john paul stevens to sign the majority opinion. it is senseless to talk about the roberts court and indeed with the exception of john marshall and possibly the earl warren, i think it is genuinely a mistake to refer to the court as belonging to the chief justice. one should look to the rhythms of american history or the rhythms of what is happening at the supreme court and divide your analysis the way, and that is what i have done in my 11 chapters. there is only one chapter-- excuse me, two. i in fact to chains chapters when john jane leaves the court because i think when he left the court in 1794, concluding that it was never going to amount to anything. that is one of the reasons why his reputation 200 years later is a lot lower than when he left the court, but, the congress state had just ratified the 11th amendment which overruled the first supreme court decision interpreting the constitution, so the court was deemed by everyone wrong, 041 and jay got out. but it is john marshall. he really does deserve primacy. he is the babe

more with stephen dubner and steven levitt in just a moment. "after words" with stephen dubner and steven levitt continues. >> host: i'm ezra klein and we are back with stephen dubner and steven levitt, authors "superfreakonomics." before the break we began getting into the most controversial section of the book which is the piece on global warming. and the listeners have probably heard about cap-and-trade and we will hear about carbon taxes the public advocate's a different solution using new technologies to reengineer or to manipulate a climate of the earth which back when i was a kid would give you a quick visit from the justice league. but here you're seeing is the answer. what convinced you of this? >> guest: we have to be clear about what we think. the question we try to answer is if we decide the earth as we too hot, just too hot and we want to close down quickly how should we go about doing it. that is the question i think the answer quite effectively in the book. all sorts of other questions you might want to answer like what kind of l

now, a conversation with john paul stevens. >> justice stevens, what part of your chambers are be in right now? >> you were in the office of two of my law clerks. i come in a lot and learn about the law from them. >> how many law clerks do you have? four, and two others are upstairs. >> you are the only person left on the supreme court that served with warren burger -- berger. that was taken in the conference room. >> what is the difference between the court did and the court now? >> -- the court and then and the court now -- the core then and the court now -- the court then and the court now. it is determined by how it has operated over the years. there is much more continuity in the way that we do our work than there is change. there is a change when a new chief justice presides. each chief justice has his way of presiding at the conference. our present chief justice is doing an excellent job. he has some virtues that the others did not have, but that pretty much has followed through the years. >> back in those days, were there more cases? how many cases should you have? >. . and t

more with stephen dubner and steven levitt in just a moment. if centers are continuing the debate on the health care bill through the weekend. our regular booktv schedule will be pre-empted during these rare senate sessions. with booktv programs resuming after the debate. watch the senate debate on health care, live gavel-to-gavel kuran c-span2. the only network with the 48 on it and commercial free to get to read the senate bill and house version plus watch video on demand, go online to the c-span health care hub. >> "after words"" with stephen dubner and steven levitt continues. >> host: i am ezra klein and we are back with stephen dubner and steven levitt, authors of "super freakonomics." before we went to the break we began getting into the coffers of section of the book, which is the piece on global warming. and our listeners have probably heard about cap and trade and carbon taxes. but the book advocates a different solution, which is using new technologies to reengineer or to engineer, to manipulate the jury climate of the earth, which b

he takes us on a -- john spall stevens. he -- john paul stevens. he takes on a tour. >> justice stevens, what part of the chamber are we in? >> you're in the office of two of my law clerks. lindsay works in here. i learn about the law from there. how many law clerks do you have? >> four. two others are upstairs. >> you have some photographs on the wall. one of them in particular is interesting because you're the only person left on the supreme court that served with warren bird. >> that's correct. i think that was taken the day that justice -- the justice was sworn in. >> what's the difference between the court then and the court now? >> eight different justices. the eight are in that picture have all succeeded my present colleagues. very there a difference the way the court works today? . >> you do about 80 cases a year. were there more in the past? and from a particular perspective, how many cases should you have a year? >> the number we handle right now is about right. maybe we should be up to a 100. but there were well over 150 when i started.

steven badylak: i just say i make body parts.ntion. >> safer: he and his team are convinced that the key to regeneration is finding the switch in our bodies that tells our cells to grow when we are still in the womb. >> safer: the accepted wisdom is that we're born with what we have and that's it. you know, the body doesn't grow new parts. >> badylak: well, the human body... because there certainly are examples of species that regrow their arms and legs, like a newt or a salamander. but as a human, early enough in gestation, we can do the same things. we can regrow major body parts. >> safer: in essence, is what you're doing trying to find the key to turning that process back on? >> badylak: yeah, if we could make the body, or at least the part of the body that's missing or injured, think that it's an early fetus again, that's game, set, and match. >> safer: dr. badylak says he now has the material that might be a step towards that. its called e.c.m.-- extra cellular matrix, which he gets from, of all places, pig bladders. >> bad

steven hammond who works as his assistance. >> let's start with you. to the public it seems odd that m.p.'s can employee relatives in the first place. >> i think it does but an m.p.'s job is not just a job, it's a lifestyle. your family is expected to be part of it anyway. in my case, i've worked for members of parliament for 25 years and at the last general election, the m.p. i was working for retired, i was offered a job for his successor, but my husband was elected. i thought the best way forward was to work with stephen. i thought it would seem strange if i went to work for one of his colleagues. >> do you think we're going to see m.p.'s wives going back around? >> that's been rumored. i'm sure because of the work she's done over a long period of time, it's clear where an m.p. can employ a relative and it can be better than employing someone else. there have it's a hard case. but -- and here's the but -- i don't think we're any long for the a pgs where we can plead even on me the merits to an advantage. the problem with employing relative the same

and steven ray, fouled, will go to the line for three. made the first one. here's the second one. oh, no good. gone zag gas, goes down, wake forest the winner, 77-75. nc taking on marquette, leading by six, haywood taking on the baseline. throwing one up. the alley-oop jam, mark ket's 29 game non-conference winning streak at home. stay tuned for a full 30 minutes of action and nfl highlights join me for "final score," we roll tonight right here after the villanova-maryland game. until then enjoy the second half of miami and boston college. do you trust your coworkers, yes, you do, so just let go. [ groan ] okay, what did we learn there? is there such a thing as personal space, no, there isn't, because we are all molecules... in the same organism. american airlines. yeah, i need an earlier flight out of chicago. i feel like some of you don't respect me. because, ah... because of the hat. [ horns blowing, clanking ] just get me on the next flight out. hey, me too. ♪ - hi. - just made it. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. >>> our accra halftime report continue, boston col

your steven briar. so he said, yes, i'm steven briar. and they chatted for a little while. but then the guy said. now let me ask you a question, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he paused for a moment and said, i have to say it's the privilege of serving with david sutor. now how can you not love an institution where it's suitable. one thing they almost always say is, you know, it's too partisan. it focuses on the political differences between the justices. it focuses on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. and it doesn't focus enough on the law. now if you would to ask me what's wrong with supreme court coverage, i would say is that it doesn't focus enough on the politics o a situation. and it doesn't focus enough on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. the way i see the court, much of the time. not always. i think the court historically 47 of the cases almost every year are decided unanimously. another chunk are 7-1. 8-2. if you look at the cases that are about, you know, the things we care about.

steven on our line for independents, go ahead. >> i just want to say how can you, i understand a carry-on but fur -- you might as well put everyone in the country in it because you really don't know who the terrorist is. it can be anybody. >> what would your thoughts be, steven, if for whatever reason your name turned occupy on a list and next time they pulled you aside and put you into custody. >> well, as soon as i get off this call, i'm shur he probably will. i'm not going to do anything wrong. but first of all, need stop lying to the people, stop getting so much government involved and kick off your martial law because we know that's what you're doing, that's what you should be talking about and all your fema accounts. host: we're going to leave it there. do you want to respond to any of that? guest: uh, no. the e other than longer the terror watch list is the less useful it is. there are people who shouldn't be on it and people who are on it and shouldn't be. so it's a work in process. very difficult indeed but the longer the list is, the more difficult because as you said, can't but

this year one of them in the age of reagan 1982 m-mike 1980 name by steven hayward. also looking back a couple of presidencies we covered the book h.w. ray and his perpetrator to his class. here's portsmouth, virginia. this is cliff on a democrat plan. >> caller: good morning. a good book came out in 2009, but it's one of my favorites. it's been said bugliosi's book, how to prosecute george w. bush for murder. now you can extend the policies in this book and prosecution to obama casillas complicit in continuing this illegal war. post go i think that might've come out in 2008, 2007. santa rosa, california is next. what is your favorite nonfiction book of the year? >> caller: thanks a lot for c-span. i favorite nonfiction book has been and always will be the bible. post go thank you. jim on our independent line. >> caller: good morning. i'm not sure if this is 2009, but it's american bloomsbury by susan cheever, based on the literate community that gathered in massachusetts, hawthorne and emerson. and it was just a delight. and i don't read much nonfiction but it was c

>> the talk centered on justice john paul stevens, the oldest justice at age 89, and there's always talk about him because of his age, even though he appears to be very much at the top of his game. but at the beginning of the term, it came out that he had only hired one law clerk for the term that would begin in october of 2010. and typically he would have hired four, his full crop at that point. so the thinking is that perhaps he's making it possible for himself to retire at the end of this term in june or july. host: greg stohr is with us until 8:30 to take your calls and comments and emails and tweets about the supreme court. so if up to the start dialing, go ahead and do that as well. the supreme court -- the term, or the last term ended up in september, and it was justice society owe mayer's first case, the case on campaign financial reform, tell us about that case and when might the court reach a decision on it. guest: a lot of us thought they would have decided it by now. they heard arguments in september. that was the second time they heard arguments, which is highly unusual. hos

leon cooper, the world war ii veteran, survivor, present, of the pacific theater and steven c. barber, the producer and director of this documentary. how did you come about to do this? >> i was on a mountain bike ride 13 years ago and i ran into eddie albert. long story short, he invited me in, we got to be good friends. during the interview process he showed me this medal he had won. he was in the battle of tarawa. told me all about it, told me we lost 3,000, 4,000 men. fast-forward ten years, i meet this gentleman. i asked him -- we were at the book fair at ucla. i said, did you know eddie albert? he said, absolutely. i remember seeing him, japanese bull etds were flying flgt he was dragging marines out of the bay. i said, leon, that's 65 years ago. how could you remember that? he said that's something you'll never forget. >> larry: ed, how did they get you involved? >> i'm not sure who asked me, but i met with steven and leon, and he told me his story and what he was doing and the documentary they were working on. i saw the film and i said, yeah, i'd be happy to help out. i

your steven briar. so he said, yes, i'm steven briar. and they chatted for a little while. but then the guy said. now let me ask you a question, what's the best thing about being on the supreme court? he paused for a moment and said, i have to say it's the privilege of serving with david sutor. now how can you not love an institution where it's suitable. one thing they almost always say is, you know, it's too partisan. it focuses on the political differences between the justices. it focuses on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. and it doesn't focus enough on the law. now if you would to ask me what's wrong with supreme court coverage, i would say is that it doesn't focus enough on the politics o a situation. and it doesn't focus enough on who's a democratic appointee and who's a republican appointee. the way i see the court, much of the time. not always. i think the court historically 47 of the cases almost every year are decided unanimously. another chunk are 7-1. 8-2. if you look at the cases that are about, you know, the things we care about.

i'm here with steven leavitt and stephen dubner to talk about their book, freakonomics. thank you for being with us. you have in one of the early chapters a bit about the name, but it almost didn't happen. what were the other names? >> guest: oh, they're so bad, they're so embarrassing. the worst one wase reason ray-vision. the idea was being the special power to look through, and there'd have to be some kind of character with a big cape. laugh my favorite that was bad but it was a great bad one was -- we should say linda jines came up with freakonomics, and it was great because we had this book that was about everything and nothing. it was hard to name it proposerly, but her

on top of that, steven and i went out and did some crash test. wee bit out of our talk pockets to do crashed just because we couldn't find any evidence in the literature how crash test dummies of young children sides did when you put them in adult seatbelts. and so i think a lot of times what we talk about experts, to kind of get up to speed, certainly within the economic measure, you get up to speed in an area for somebody like me, it just doesn't take a long. literature isn't that large. there are a lot of sources. much easier to learn about the litter now than it used to be. what's harder than doing the academic work is maybe coming up with a brilliant public policy plan that will take into account all of the special interest, all of the political rallies, what you can cannot do. our thing. our thing is to take ideas, to get people thinking, to challenge conventional wisdom, and in many ways it's better to be an outsider. it's almost impossible to challenge conventional wisdom from the inside out. because i think you lose the perspective that

steven jackson is used to taking on his old team. he has five of them. in charlotte. the former hawk, spur, warrior, pacer, was back at indiana wednesday. also a net, you know. jackson and the bobcats only one on the road. larry brown also is a form early patriots coach. the third quarter pacers up. here he finds him. indiana has an 18-point lead. picking up in the third, steven jackson had the highlight. two of his 22. fourth quarter, lee town to seven. gerald wallace at the hard working. wallace with 12 rebounds leefl now only five. now only they have. boris diaw. you see that shot doesn't count. here's the larry brown shot. pacers with the win. coming up on the "final score," maybe this or maybe that. i'm going to guess kobe for your i'm going to guess kobe for your oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one

one of the early cases i argued i was convinced that justice stevens was with me every step of the way. he was asking a great questions. he was looking at me benignly. when the case came out, it was 7-2, and he was one of the centers. -- one of the dissenters. he said, cannot take people granted on these issues. he said it is a road map of how administrative action ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems that he sought and the federal statute i was defending. >> you cannot be sure where the argument is telling. once his bowling. -- is going. sometimes he will have to make that judgment early on in the case. that is not completely changing strategy. irresistibly something you have thought about carey >. i think it is helpful and the more you know about the court and the way they do their jobs, it is more of an unpainted to. there are many advocates to show up for the first town who have never been to an argument before you do a wonderful job because they have mastered their case. they had anticipated questions without knowing what questions justices may ask. mastering t

we observed steven wright week. -- human rights week. week proclaimed a new framework for laws and institutions that the phil the dow of never again. they affirmed the universality of declaration. it challenges discrimination against women and religious minorities. every person counts. it exposes those who violate the standards. if we celebrate the progress, our focus must be on the work that remains to be done, and the preamble it encourages us to use it as a standard of achievement bri. we cannot deny the eloquent promises and the life experiences of so many of our fellow human beings. we must finish the job. our human rights agenda is to make human rights a human reality. the first step is to see it in the broader context. people must be free from the oppression of tierney and discrimination and fear of leaders who will imprison them. they must be free from the oppression of want of health, food, and education. to fill their potential, people must choose laws and leaders, a share and access information, criticize and in debate. they m

. >> yes sir, my name is steven roberts and i'm a former intern here at the heritage foundation and in the u.s. army reserves. sir, after reading your original work, i notice that there was a spiritual-- deck halliwell and strauss noticed that temporal sphere in which really we don't see in and their religious climate but really a different religious climate that is in our society and i want to know what your perspective this in terms of our engagement with this growing gnostic religious climate how we might undermine its theological and philosophical presuppositions, so i appreciate your insights there. >> it seems to me that conservatism is more than a concern with economics and i don't say that in any way to diminish or disparage the importance of the economic concerns. it is more also then national security concerns and we all know those are vital in deep. it really involves transmitting a cultural patrimony from one

at the half, steven f. austin with lead over the arkansas razorbacks. still to come, richmond will take on number 13 florida. south carolina and later on tonight, 9:00, css, course classic, k-state plays alabama.

the supreme court justices, starting tonight with the chief justice john roberts and also john paul stevens. we spoke earlier about his possible retirement. are there already interest groups working on the side, bubbling up names of possible replacements for justice stevens? guest: that has been a permanent campaign in the last few years. barack obama and -- and his advisers started coming of names not only before the vacancy but before he took office. he interviewed, i believe four candidates. certainly people will look at other candidates. among them are at the solicitor general, certainly somebody who would be at the top of the list. and certainly the opposition is doing roadwork, too, already building of a case for opposing her or whoever the nominee will be. host: louisville, next. bill from kentucky on the democrats' line. caller: the first time i have never picked the phone up and called in. listen, i got one question. just have a question regarding what happened in afghanistan, hamid karzai, and the whole situation that occurred in their election system. it seems a bit hypocritical

steven chu is a very, very, very, very smart man.he used to be my next-door neighbor that i babysat for his children. he got a nobel prize in physics that he knows about particles interacting. he does not know a lot of people interacting strategically, and he probably doesn't know much about iran. hillary clinton probably doesn't know that much about iran either. so they have advisors. they turn to their advisors who do know about iran, about energy policy, about nuclear development and so forth. and those people may exert a great deal of influence in what bubbles up to be the recommendations that the president receives and eventually translates into his policy. so if we ignore those people farther down the latter, we're going to get the analysis wrong because they are the people shaping the views. of course, that's just one side. the iranians have their own set of advisors. i suspect that holly khamenei doesn't know much about iranian enrichment. he probably knows more about what he cares to know but he's not an expert on. he turns

i was convinced that justice stevens was with me every step of the way. he was asking great questions and looking benignly at me as i argued. i even thought there was a nod somewhere. when the opinion came out, it was 7-2, and he was one of the dissenters. i wrote a law review article about the issue of was addressing in the lawsuit, and essentially said don't take people for granted on this the up issue. justice stevens wrote a dissent that is a roadmap of how legislation and administrative actions ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems he saw in the federal statute i was defending. . . -- i think it is helpful. the more that you know about the court and the president and the way they do their job, it is more of an advantage. i do not think there are very many advocates the show for the first time and have done a wonderful job because they have mastered their case they had anticipated questions without knowing precisely what the justice -- what justice brier might ask. >> she was not engaged in bonafide services were the governor argued

. >> this is our head of manufacturing, steven driver. >> thank you very much. >> he's the one who got the print schedule. >> great. great. i appreciate that. >> you really went on overdrive, i'm sure you did. how can you do things that quickly? >> not often. >> occasionally. >> but it's -- it's fun when we do. it's fun to see it all come together. >> it looks so food. thank you. it looks great. did you guys do the design? >> yes. >> it's really nice. really nice. >> bob talked about the concept and -- >> would be, great concept. >> wallace did the cover design, it was designed in house. the term size and the interior was mine. there's a lot of people that put it together. >> fantastic. thanks. good. >> mr. skwrao: he's clear clear. >> he's clear cleerp. >> he's wonderful. amazing guy. he gave a great speech. i'm going to give him my job. >> i hope you enjoy it. thanks for. coulding out. >> frances beinecke co-authored "clean energy common sense" with bob deans and to find out more, visit nrdc.org. >> we're here with garrett peck, the author of "the prohibition hangover," what was the

. >> steven picker. -- pinker. you take out by saying this -- >> what are you getting at? >> i wanted to make the point, and i should say, i generally have a lot of respect for stephen pinker. i thought "the language instinct" was a classic. but this comes from a specific scientific and ideological perspective. we're somewhere along the continuum, how much of the nature or nurture guy are you? he is over here -- he thinks that iq means a great deal. and i'm talking about the power of culture and environment. when he criticizes me, he is doing so not because i am violating the rules of scientific understanding, but just because we are at different points on the continuum. and it's not right or wrong or legitimate or illegitimate. it's just a different perspective. >> he is all harvard for specter -- he is a harvard respect -- professor. you're right -- -- you write -- >> explain that. >> one of the things that he had to quibble with in his review is an essay i wrote about quarterbacks and teachers. he made this point, i was talking about, teachers are the most important var

stevens the steal going the other way. how about this?able to convert the wide open dunk and simon taking on the fast break. simon doesn't know he has a man behind him. novak, a big block. titans having a tough time hanging with the wolverines. later on harris outlet pass, not going to get this. harris had 27. michigan wins is-t by 11. >>> illinois hosting western michigan. first half, illini on the break. the give and go. lays it in. 2 of his 11 points on the day. later, same guy showing hustle, making the steal. going to leave some offensive production. bucket on the other end. illinois got 23 at the break. in the second, gordon, son of michael. looking like michael a little bit there, using the window. 88-53 the final, illinois a winner. >>> we're not done here on "the final score," more football. patriots look to keep their lead in the afc east. ♪ energetic music geico powersports. insurance for your car and the other stuff that moves you. >>> welcome back. titans hosting the 1-11 rams. nfl leading returner chris johnson doing his thi

after that, interviews with supreme court chief justice john roberts and justice john paul stevens. later, another chance to see the discussion on media coverage of financial markets. tomorrow, american university holds the second day of their annual campaign management institute. you will hear former republican and democratic strategist talking about how to frame issues and target voters. that is live at 10:15 eastern on c-span 2. ♪ >> this is "america and the courts." next, encore presentations from supreme court week special. first, supreme court journalist lyle denniston and joan biskupic on covering the courts. >> by and large, people that cover us like their work. they know their traditions. they know the schedule, and they do a good job

and steven z.arbetter. >> i was on a mountain bike ride about 13 years ago, i ran across eddie albert. he invited me in, i wrote a story about him, we got to be good friends. during the interview process, he showed me this metal he won. he was in the battle of tarawa, we lost 3,000, 4,000 men. it was horrible. fast forward 10 years later, i meet this extraordinary gentleman. i said, did you see eddie albert at tarawa. he said, absolutely, i remember seeing him. he was dragging marines out of the bay. i said, leon, that was 615 years ago, how do you remember that? >> he said, it's not something you forget. >> leon told me his story and what he was doing, and the documentary they were working on. i saw the film, and i said, yeah, i'll be happy to help out, i really like -- i appreciate people with passion. and have a lot of respect for my elders. and i was glad to help leon out. >> did you know about tarawa? >> not at all. i mean, my dad was in wwii but he was in the army and he was in europe. i knew

i was convinced that justice stevens was with me every step of the way. he was

and thank you, steven, for all you have done.f members, we did not realize how many there were. we only invited my staff members from the senate. i did have position of secretary of the senate and with on a couple of occasions. there was a lot of staff over those years. they are the people that make the senators look good on occasion and do good things for people observing, helping me get a lot of projects and a good deserving earmark projects. [laughter] those were not poor, they were south of memphis. -- pork, they were southo f memp -- south of memphis. i have my chief of staff in the room. the only job tougher than the one that tricia had. i have colleagues on both sides of the capital, both sides of the aisle. the leader when i was with in the house, a great guy. [applause] livingston, for one moment in history, a brief time, the epicenter of the political world in the united states was the river between mississippi and louisiana. bob and i talked about that. is leader boehner here? i'm sure they have more work to do, better

steven a.th, a sportscaster and nationally he syndicated radio host for fox sports radio and columnist for "the philadelphia inquirer." you heard drew pinskey talk about that. >> i've never given much credence to stuff like that. a lot of men in the world avoid the truth of the matter because they don't want to admit it because a lot of women are watching. when you see a woman and desire her, you desire her. when you get married, that doesn't necessarily stop. now, i'm not married yet, but the reality is it's almost one of those situations where when it comes to the physical, there's quite a bit of men out near constant rehab. we see something. we covet it. sometimes we act right about it. sometimes we act wrong about it. if tiger woods is an addict, per se, there's a whole bunch of addicts running around in this world. people just need to stop using that as an excuse or whatever. men covet what they see, and we have to reel ourselves in when we make that ultimate commitment because it's not th

justice john paul stevens is with him on these things and people just mention that one, the right to be confronted by the witnesses against you, and he has had quite an influence in making sure statements that were made out of court in the key cases, domestic violence cases and child abuse cases are not admitted unless the person who said then is there to be cross-examined. >> host: he's taking the words of the constitution saying that is the right of the defendant and by gosh i going to take my our regionalism where it takes me. well now, tell me in a sentence, somewhat in a sentence or two would you feel about justice antonin scalia american original. >> guest: a lot of different things. obviously someone who has had quite an influence on the law that probably never would have been predicted in 1986. but, you know, through the chain of political events ronald reagan, george w. bush's appointments of samuel roberts and alito has gone from this long active to center speaking only to his acolytes beyond the marble walls to someone who's now in the majority and is likely to stay in the

louis, illinois, the home offed afed aed adelaide steven. >> here's my new thing, credit unions, especially federally chartered, the maximum interest rate they can charge you is 18%. while that may sound like a very high interest rate, the truth of the matter is many of these banks today are charging 29.99% interest. here is what i'm suggesting. the united states of america, all of you should start looking into credit union credit cards and do a balance transfer. how do you find a good credit union credit card where they won't charge you a balance transfer fee, the interest rate is 8%, things like that, i want you to go to a site called creditcardconnection.org. it is a new site, credit unions you should all want to start to register with this site where it literally gives the credit unions a rating, and you put in your zip code, and up will come a credit union in that area that has a good rate, and that will treat you honestly. so it's something you should all check out. the site has just started up, i have been monitoring it and i have to tell you, the person running it obviously knows wh

back who has the kind of haircut that one normally associates with a student in the late 1960's is steven lyndon who is a decent fellow and who became-- immediately from 1996 to 2002 and had the best idea that anyone has ever had in the whole history of british intelligence and that is to say commissioning an official history of mi5. thank you. i am sorry if i sound slightly partisan and there is sir patrick walter in the middle. they were off to play against the team that i cannot identify and could not that conceivably been mi but i can't possibly comment. and i can explain what it is except it is a good thing to do. this becomes interesting. i have just that time to talk about it. i merely let myself time to talk about tourism. mi5 was found solely with counter espionage. nowadays it stands only three and a half% of its resources on counterespionage in deals with counterterrorism but because that there is no collective memory and because it was not written down at the time i have discovered that even though i think that an operational level, i think there are good reasons for my bias,

steven mansfield, who's an author called and said, hey, you remember the folks who were captured by the taliban before 9/11? i said, yeah, the two american girls. he goes, actually there were two american girls, germans and australians. the folks have been basically bombarded with requests from hollywood to do movies of the week, and they don't feel real comfortable about it, and they don't really feel like their story will be told truthfully if they allow that to happen. and i told them about you, and they want to meet you. so i met a few folks from shelter now international. we had coffee, and i guess things worked out because six years later, here we are with a story. [laughter] but that was 2002, november of 2002. by 2003, august, sernghts i was in afghanistan starting the initial interviews for this documentary. and it's been a long process. it's one of those documentaries that kind of had to fold on its own -- unfold on its own as opposed to you've got x amount of dollars, go shoot it, it's due in three months. i purposely throughout the interviews staggered them so time could bri

it's translated by her husband, steven seymour who also serves as the interpreter for our profile. >>( translated ): my name is vera pavlova. i was born in moscow. i spent all my life there and my impression was i would never leave that place. in moscow i went to school, i went to academy of music there. until age of twenty i wrote music and was going to become a composer. then starting at the age of twenty, i started writing poetry. fourteen collections of mine have been published to date in moscow i met steve in moscow too steve and i represent a rare case of cooperation the history of poetry knows a number of examples of poets being man and wife. though those were not very happy marriages unless i am mistaken there has been no case of the wife being the poet and the husband being the translator this gives a lot of advantages to the translator because he gets to translate poems we have lived through together >> if only i knew from what tongue your i love you has been translated, if i could find the original, consult the dictionary to be sure the rendition is exact: the translator is

past 11 years c-span's covered some 9,000 book even one of the and the age of reagan, 1980 to '89 by steven hayward. also, looking back a couple of presidency's we covered the book hw bram, his book trader to his class. here is portsmouth virginia and this is cliff on the democratic swing. go ahead >> caller: good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: i'm not sure if this cannot interpose a mine or not but it's vincent bucha rios book how to prosecute george w. bush for murder. you can extend the policies in this book and prosecution to obama because he is conflicted and continuing this eagle war in the middle east. >> host: i think that might have come now and 2008, 2007. santa rosa california is next. craig on the republican line, what are you reading? what is your favorite mom teach a book of the year? >> caller: hi, c-span, merry christmas. my favorite nonfiction book has been and always will be the bible. >> host: thank you, will spur no hampshire is next up, jim on the independent line. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i don't know if this was 2000 later but it's american bloom

we'll talk about supreme court justices steven briar and clarence thomas. later a reporter discusses the courts 2010 agenda. up next, a panel at the university of virginia talks about taxes and the national debt and the effect they have on the economy. this is just over an hour. >> welcome back to our concluding roundtable. we have in the last 12 hours considered a considerable amount of ground. our concluding roundtable is designed to take what we have learned and contemplate the "big" questions, not that we haven't done that so far, questions having to do is there an optimal level of debt, do debt and deficits put america leadership at risk, does preserving the status of the dollar require sacrifices so far as domestic fiscal policy is concerned. we have drawn from our earlier panels to bring together representatives from each one to talk about these issues. we have christian from the german government. ray from the national governor's association, arrest minute from the peterson institute, thomas rice from ucla. alice from the brookings institution and b

there were people like steven green who was a young pretty student at bennington with no inclination toward politics until he kind of got slapped into reality and came down and joined the right and said he realized how shelter of a life he had been living. and like a lot of people deride changed his life. he went on to become, to work basically for the u.n. for much of his career in hot spots are on the world. it also included people pretty political from the get go like bologna who was in israel and a radical christian community in georgia and had mom violin training from c.o.r.e. and set up in integration burba the university of minneapolis minnesota and minneapolis. and he led a group down -- led the group down to jackson. he still lives in minneapolis today and is very much involved in politics. one of his good friends who came along with him was david morton, who in this photograph like a nice, clean-cut american kid. but this is what he looked like then as well as now. he shaved his beard to come south so they wouldn't accuse him of being a happy, which is what he was. he was a

. >> yes, sir, my name is steven roberts, i'm a former intern here at the heritage foundation and a chaplain in the u.s. army reserves. sir, after reading your original work i noticed that there was a spiritual theme that people go to, it's like a redivinization of the the political sphere in which we see a different religious climate that's taking hold in our society. and i wanted to know what your perspective is in terms of our engagement with this growing knostic religious climate, how we might undermine the philosophical preposition and reveal that it's hold doe. >> yes. well, it seems to me that conservativism is more than a concern with economics, and i don't see that in my way to diminish or disparage the importance of economic concerns. we all know those are vital, indeed. it really involves transmitting a cultural patrimony from one generation to the next. and incleesing -- increasingly it seems to me those who are most effective are people with a strong spiritual center. and what has impressed me as i look at the conservative movement growing in the past generation or two is the su

steven on our line for independents, go ahead. >> i just want to say how can you, i understand a carry-onut fur -- you might as well put everyone in the country in it because you really don't know who the terrorist is. it can be anybody. >> what would your thoughts be, steven, if for whatever reason your name turned occupy on a list and next time they pulled you aside and put you into custody. >> well, as soon as i get off this call, i'm shur he probably will. i'm not going to do anything wrong. but first of all, need stop lying to the people, stop getting so much government involved and kick off your martial law because we know that's what you're doing, that's what you should be talking about and all your fema accounts. host: we're going to leave it there. do you want to respond to any of that? guest: uh, no. the e other than longer the terror watch list is the less useful it is. there are people who shouldn't be on it and people who are on it and shouldn't be. so it's a work in process. very difficult indeed but the longer the list is, the more difficult because as you said, can't but 3

observersç steven hessç senio fellow at brookings institution. a-must binus but a b-plu. guest: if he went back to being professor obama he would give him an incomplete. he never turned in the exams. i am the whole quality of the first year has a sense of incompleteness that i find very interesting. however, i would give him a b-plus if he worked under the old rules which is all you needed is 51 votes. when i got here that is what it was. now you can't have a major piece of legislation without needing 60 votes. if he could have gotten by with 51 he would have had a brilliant year. host: ezra khraoeufrpb says it is time to reform the senate. guest: he does, and it is. and 60 votes as steve said we we got here, youç just worried abt a majority and you got a bill passed. if i had a problem with obama's approach to some of this is his turning offense all of this stuff to willy-nilly saying i want to do this, now you do t. i think there was guidance somewhere but i don't think it was the guidance that could have avoided some of this. i think what hap

weekly will be here to discuss foreign policy and then we will have steven hess from the brookings institution thomasson of scripps howard news service to talk about president obama's first year in office. thank you for watching this edition of "the washington journal" and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern. coming up, the communictors, and at 10:30, a senate hearing on the backlog of d.n.a. evidence collected for unsolved rape cases, and later, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on u.s. policy in afghanistan. tonight, on "america and the courts" encore presentations from c-span's supreme court week special. the supreme court jurn aferlist lyle denison an joan biskubic on covering the courts and appellate attorney maureen maloney on arguing before the court tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in the mid '90's, newsweek named omar wasow one of the 50 most influential people to watch in cyberspace and since then he has created the social networking site blackplanet.com and explained new technologies on oprah. sunday night he talks about his current studies at harvard a

justice stevens wrote a dissent that is a roadmap of how legislation and administrative actions ought to be taken to steer clear of some of the problems he saw in the federal statute i was defending. . . the style of each justice as you prepare. >> certainly the more of an advantage it is the more you know but i think there are many advocates to show up for the first time who've never been to an argument before who do a wonderful job simply because they've mastered their case and they have participated questions without knowing precisely what questions they might ask. >> she was not engaged in bona fide and lawful services, particularly in this case where the government told the jury that nancy was the central figure in this episode -- >> how do you know it's not an affirmative defense? >> it doesn't read like one. >> it is often difficult for the public to understand what is happening because the issues often tend to be very complex. and often they are about interpretation and they are talking about how different sections of the statute intersect and maybe how they interact with othe