and aaron viles, campaign director for the gulf restoration network, an advocacy group.wú alph portier professor portier i want to start with you. what will it take for the gulf coast, to as the president put it, bounce back? >> well, fortunately we are not like alaska. we are in a nice warm climate. ideal for the environment to slowly but quickly, more quickly than not, recover. oil is biodegradable, particularly this oil. and so if we manage the microbiology, we manage the approaches to cleanup, i think it's very possible that we'll turn this around quicker rather than longer. >> ifill: what do you mean by particularly this oil. what is it about this kind of oil? >> well, in oil fields we've worked on in the past, we've worked with heavier grades of crude oil. lots of heavy ends, we call it asphalt. this particular oil does not have as much asphaltanic material in it. so that means as a whole most of the oil as it comes to shore, almost all fractions of it can be degraded and that's very important. >> ifill: aaron viles i'm curious if you agree about that with the nature of the kind

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former state department adviser aaron david miller gives his take on the elusive search for arab-israeli peace, and why diplomacy has made little progress. plus, on our arts blog "art beat," jeff talks to barbara pollack, author of "the wild, wild east: an american art critic's adventures in china." and a reminder-- we'll bring you the latest on the gulf oil leak all weekend online. we've updated our interactive ticker. it estimates the amount of oil that has leaked so far. and you can watch the live video feed from the ocean floor as attempts continue to bring the crisis under control. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

shifts that you see in the court pick history, where if you were there, as i was, when cowper versus aaron was decided, and when the court was trying to work out all of the sequels to brown versus board -- to see the seattle and louisville cases come along, and to see them dealt with as they were, first of all, was astonishing. second, it told me in a way that nothing else has that we are really in a new age with the roberts court, a very new age in which cultural change, it seems to me, will be a hallmark of what the court does for the next 20 years or so -- major cultural change is on the agenda for the court. >> i think the seattle and louisville cases were the more interested set of cases. having argued affirmative action cases for the university of michigan, i follow those closely. i have a different reaction than lyle to what it told us. there were important cases. the court system here important cases. i think the majority opinion, in many ways, was quite measured. they could have reached out and said that diversity was not a compelling interest. instead, it was an application of th

"inside new orleans with eric asher" -- here is our man, aaron asher. -- eric asher. ♪ >> good afternoonnew orleans. welcome to those who are watching along the cable systems around the united states on c- span, you are listening to the mighty 690. here we go. day 43 now of the oil leak in the gulf. over the weekend, the attempt to stop this leak -- almost 40,000 gallons at this point is what we are being told 18-40 million gallons spilled into the gulf. of course, the top kill jump shot scenario procedure failed ovvr the weekend. now bp launching its ninth plan to try to stop the leak. they have been at this for 24 hours, cutting off the pipes are round the riser and hoping to fit a custom built cap over the leak. this is not going to be a pressure sealed cap. it is the latest attempt to stop this leak. this is threatening our very way of life in louisiana. where was louisiana's problem for the most part, because of the currents and tides and the wind coming out of the south over the last few weeks, it looks as though oil could be reaching the coast of alabama, dauphin island, alabama.

we have asked aaron as ashton the representative of foreign affairs and curity policy to pursue thiswith the secretary of iran supreme national security council at the earliest opportunity. we expect iran to demonstrate the pragmatic attitude and respond positively to our openness towards dialogue and negotiations. mr. president, that concludes this statement on behalfof the foreign ministers. >> i should now like to make some remarks of my national capacity. today e u.n. security council adopted resolution 1929 as a result of the international community ongoing serious concerns about the proliferation risks of the iranian nuclear program. once again, the u.n. security council has sent a strong message of international resolve to. it is a clear signal that iran's continued failure would comply with its u.n. security counl and iaea boardrequirements to cease its enrichment related activities could not be tolerated. mr. president, the u.n. security council last addressed the issue in september, 2008 and a clear statement we wish to resolve our serious concerns throug dialogue and negot

guest: aaron really within the cia. the authority with the cia are i think the president nominates the head of the cia on the recommendation of the dni. generally across the board, greater personnel, greater budget clintons would be useful. -- budget functions would be useful. host: who would recommend to the president the new head of the cia? guest: he has a personnel group in the white house. host: kentucky on the independent line. caller: i want to know why are there is soomuch negativity and -pcorruption in america. would you believe that we have freedom in america?+ if we do, what is the privilege? guest: iidid not know -- in fact, i do not agree with your proposition. i think this is a very free country. i think the proof of the pudding is the incredible number of people around the world who want to come here to live. host: peter on our democrat caller: good morning. i have two quick questions. the fiist concernssautonomy and how this agency operates in independence wittout not influence from any pdministration. s

kagan praised as her judicial hero aaron bharat who served on the supreme court of israel for nearly 30 years. she called him -- quote -- "the judge or justice in my lifetime whom i think best represents and has best advanced the valves democracy and human -- and the values of democracies and human law." that is not simply high praise, but the highest praise possible, for she says that justice bahrat was literally the best judge anywhere during her lifetime in representing and advancing the rule of law enforcement who is this judge who for ms. kagan at least is literally the best representation of the rule of law? judge richard posener, one of the great intellects in the law has described justice bahrack one of the most prominent of the foreign judges who -- quote -- "without a secure constitutional basis, created a degree of judicial power undreamt of by our most aggressive supreme court justices." judge posener concluded that to justice barack -- quote -- "the judiciary is a law unto itself." these and other examples over a period of more than two decades fit consistently together.