very cordial letters between kennedy and j. edgar hoover because at the same time we know that the fbi is tracking him when he is traveling to central and south america, accusing him of meeting with leftists, of gathering intelligence the same time the fbi director is apparently his best friend. host: how does this process work, the fbi releasing files? does every public official had a file? guest: not every public official necessarily. but many of them do. basically the process worked where the boston globe -- and that understand a lot of other media outlets requested kennedy's file after his death under the freedom of information act. basically over the last six or eight months, the fbi has been reviewing the file, blacking out anything that might impinge on someone's privacy. also crossing out anything that might be national security information. they got ready a couple weeks ago to put this out there and the last thing was really to consult with the kennedy family, which was given an opportunity to at least review it and ra

play thurgood now at washington's kennedy center for the performing arts. >> only one thing can justify continued segregation. and that is a determination that the people who were once held in slavery be kept as near to that condition as is possible. and now is the time for the court to make it clear that that is not what the constitution of the united states stands for. >> brown: thurgood marshall would go on to become the nation's first black supreme court justice. >> my professional life has been marked by great good fortune. >> reporter: and now one of his former clerks solicitor general elena kagan is president obama's nominee to follow in his footsteps. >> thurgood marshall who did more to promote justice over the course of his legal career than did any lawyer in his lifetime. >> brown: marshal's legacy will surely resurface during the upcoming confirmation hearings. in the meantime theater-goers

justice kennedy plays a role with a swing vote. this is a count of 5-4 decisions since the start of the robert court. and to a dozen five, 10 of 79. 11 in 2007 of 74. to date in 2009, 35-4 decisions. there is justice kennedy talking about the process with obvious enthusiasm. >> just prior made the observation that in the tigers before he goes into conference, and so do i.. it is like being an attorney again. you are arguing your case. i have eight colleagues who have studied very hard on a case, who may have very fixed views or maybe tentative, depending on how they have fought the case through. and i have to give my point of view and hopefully to persuade them. and i feel a sense of anticipation, or adrenaline rush. i do not know what they call it. this is a big day for us. we sometimes have as many as six cases and i have to present the argument in four cases. i have to be professional, accurate, and bear, and each of my colleagues feels the same way. there is a little tension of excitement in the room, but we love it. we are des

kennedy's successor and lyndon johnson -- chief justice earl warren.lyndon johnson looked to sitting justices to affirm his choices. fortis preferred his lucrative practice in washington as well as his partisan support for his friend, lbj. johnson twisted the arms of two rereluctant men. he sent fortis to the high court as associate justice. the jewish seat remained intact. chief justice warren supported johnson's unsuccessful attempt to promote fortis to the center chair. the chief remained on the bench until the new republican president, richard nixon, named warren burger to replace them. in that position, he rivaled chief justice taft for the label most active participant in presidential selection of justices. during his first months, he received an inquiry from the administration -- could the president discussed supreme court appointments with him? the chief's response? pppropriate. the frustrated president searched for a third nominee who was on number strict constructionist. on nixon's short list was a childhood friend of warren burger, harry bla

as you all know, better than anybody, senator kennedy served on this committee for 46 years. and i know the pride he would feel seeing elena kagan nominated for the supreme court of the united states. when ted introduced then judge breyer, he quoted oliver wendell holmes that every calling is great when greatly pursued. those words applied to stephen breyerrand i can share with you my complete and total confidence that they apply equally to solicitor general elena kagan. massachusetts is proud, mr. chairman, of enain lane nan kagan's accomplishments. and we believe through these hearings as each of you get to know her as we do, we willer and broad bipartisan support just as she did when she was nominated as solicitor general. by now, every one of us has heard many times repeated and you know well the high points of her record. a trail blazing pace culminating in her selection as the first woman to serve as the dean of harvard law school and the first woman to serve as solicitor general. fur confirmed, she will make history once again. in an america where women comprise more t

we are born to do what robert kennedy did, what eugene mccarthy did in 1968. we are going to speak up and speak out. host: another comment, the elephant in the room is the military complex. andy is joining us from oxford on a republican line. caller: thank you for taking the call. i have one question and then i will hang up and wait for the answer. here in oxford,,we find our local school with property-tax is. if someone in trenton, new jersey wants to lower people teacher ratio and not raise pretax is to do that, why is it my responsibility to pay more federal taxes so they could pay less? caller: whether it is highways ann public transportation or clean air, we all have a shared destiny here. that is what henry wallace talked about in terms of the century of the common man. we are in this together. that is the hhstory of elevating our sites and the quality of life for all americans. every child has a right to quality education. and to make that contingent on wherr he or she happens to be born, i think would be a mistake. i would also tie and how this is conn

i'll never forget the image of him at senator kennedy -- he was on the hill when senator kennedy died. i never seen a man so devastated by the death of another person in my life. it was remarkable. >> larry: dana, what did you think of the senator? >> well, my first thought is to sort of linger on the fact that he was involved with the kkk but if he repented then graces for all. that's fantastic. i hope before his death he was able to reconcile some of the positions he had prior to that i hope he was able to reconcile that before he passed away. i wasn't enamored with his voting record. i feel bad for his family. other than that, that's pretty much my reaction. >> larry: he opposed going to iraq by the way. stephanie, the west virginia governor, a democrat, he'll appoint a democrat, but this is interesting. there were two years, six months and five days left in byrd's term when he died. under west virginia law special election must be held if there's more than 2 1/2 years left on the term. the west virginia held its 2010 primary almost two months ago. some think there will be a legal

because kennedy is likely to be a swing vote if the court is at all divided.the service, it is deeply divided. but the dynamic of around the courthouse from the perspective of the press room is that there is always a shake down timeframe when a new justice comes on. i remember harry blackmun telling me about sandra o'connor. he said, that woman came here with an agenda and started throwing her weight iran and from the first day. -- her weight around from the first day. [laughter] i do recall that she spent the arbor of the first term that she was there and did insert yourself -- spend the november of the persian that she was there and did insert herself. it is literally true that the court does change, and we see it with each new justice because we know, at least those that pay fairly close attention to it, that is not necessarily predictable that you can note easily which five will constitute a majority in any given case. >> it is exciting for us to cover a new justice because it gives us a new court and we 7fk&-háhem in public playing off each other. justice

justice kennedy wrote for the court. and he said this technology is evolving so quickly today we have to be cautious. and also society's view of this technology and its use of this technology is also evolving. so we're not going to decide that. but we are going to assume that officer kwan here had an expectation of privacy and we're going to look at this search. and the court decided that this was a reasonable search. that the city had a legitimate interest in finding out if it needed to give more characters or if it was paying too much. it felt that it was a reasonable search to look at the transcripts of the messages because that was efficient and an expedient try answer the question. and then it was not excessively intrusive because it only looked at two month's worth of the officer's messages. >> suarez: so if you're someone who uses business-owned communications devices, the courts literally is still out on just how much privacy you can expect on what you put in there. >> exactly. justice kennedy did say, though, th

heyward, patrick kennedy, conrad burns.ff was so skillful at convincing a lot of indian tribes or companies to donate all kinds of money to political candidates and political parties as he saw fit. so yeah, jack abramoff was a huge rainmaker, one of the largest rainmakers in town. >> you know, there are a lot of names that popped up on there. first of all, how did you do that? >> how did i do what? >> that whole scene with the slot machine. >> oh, well, we worked with a great design firm called big star in new york, and we had the concept, and they helped us to execute it, to actually put the photographs in, to composite it and put the shadows so it has a -- we actually shot a real slot machine, which turned out to be more difficult to do than i thought, and hen we put it all together in a post- production process. it was fun. >> i know i')e said this a couple times, but it's amazing how many eople in your documentary are no longer in politics, noolonger in power. but some are. john doolittle was on that list. thad cochran.

he was not anywhere near as good a campaigner as ted kennedy.e could stay in the white house and say i care more about the american people. it is a good reason why ted kennedy lost. host: the story is "obama and the chaos perception." take a cautionary tale of jimmy carter. in fact, inflation was probably at the core of carter's troubles, but those other misfortunes contributed, too. you have to factor in the meltdown of three mile island, soviet tanks in afghanistan, and skylab. in other words, an era of chaos and a belief that the president had too little control over larger forces in the universe. this explains the appeal of ronald reagan, whose cinematic percent suggested that he would of lassoed the satellite and hurled it back into space." guest: it emphasizes how chance plays a role. no one would claim that three mile island was jimmy carter's fault, but the president is not -- the presidency is not fair. you are responsible for what happens on your watch. the clock is ticking on obama. he avoided katrina-scale blame so far. if we are in

kennedy in the 1960s. those are some of the day's major stories.now, back to jeff. >> brown:and we turn to the arrests once again of americans linked to foreign terrorist groups. >> brown: they called themselves the youth, a band of al qaeda linked jihadists who waged a campaign of violence in somalia. at new york's kennedy airport saturday two american citizens were arrested for allegedly trying to join them and attack americans. and today mohammed mack houde allesa and carlos eduardo el monte appeared in federal court. neighbors in new jersey were shocked to hear the news. >> it's scary because i was here for 9/11. i was in to we are 2. so it's really scary that there are possible terrorists living across the street from me. >> brown: officials say the two drew inspiration from radical american born cleric al-alaqwi the same fan linked to faisal shahzad arrested for trying to set off a car bomb in times square. and to major hassan, the army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at ft. hood texas last november. outside the courthouse today the

there are young naval lieutenants, one who became president jack kennedy and another who became chiefjustice earl warren. but this 300,000 people, jim, who aren't famous, whose families go there for a connection , for consolation, and we find out that at least 211 graves are misidentified, misplaced, wrong headstones. this is not rocket science. i mean, this is-- these people are entitled to it. we owe them the respect and to me, it is truly an outrage, and it makes me sad and angry simultaneously. >> mark use the word "blasphemy." it is sacred. there are very few things that happen in this town-- but the remains of these marines, soldiers, everyone , they are sacred, so to mess up on that is really to trample on something that's very important. but this , as well as b.p., as well as a lot of things we've seen in this town-- in the country for a long time-- is about execution. and we have a very high regard for vision. i write, we do all this. vision's important. but actually executing properly, getting the proper computer system there, even after millions have been spent, executing i

congressman kennedy is leaving office. on and on.id you get any sense as you saw all these names come by you that this scandal had the impact of chasing people out of congress? >> i think it did have the impact of chasinn people out of congress. that was probably a positive development. so i don't want to minimize or overdue the idea that jack 3 sense that there was no other impact. i think the abramoff scandal so called really did have an impact and people left. on the other hand, what's interesting about washington is you see them coming bark and j.d. heywerth would be a good example of that. he ay unseat john mccain, who was the guy that went after abramoff, in a kind of bitter irony. j.d. heywerth now touts the fact that mccain's committee didn't find anything wrong with what he was doing during this influence pedaling scandal. maybe john mccain wishes he had dug a little deeper and released a few more e-mails that might have revealed more about j.d. heywerth's role. but anyway, there's no doubt, your question is very good, and t

blankenship, lisa jackson from the epa, bobby kennedy, jr.. they turned us down. my own class presented to one another every thursday our personal working interest. -- work and interest. i could not get mtr on the docket. the opportunity to be here today is very powerful and very special. thank you so much for your time, and i look forward to your questions. i would like for those of you who are already working with me on this issue to feel free to raise your hand and contribute. we all have done a lot of work. we have lawyers, environmentalists, we have regulatory people. we have folks are very w-- who are very interested in creating clean energy jobs in the mountains. there have been some updates just today about solar and wind farms being built in west virginia and kentucky. we got an e-mail that jim was going to be here. i will read you the e-mail. the actionable thing that i want everyone to consider doing upon leaving here is to write these the jackson at the epa and say, -- lisa jackson at the epa and say, vetoothe permit for arch spruce onemine no. 1. -- a

a senate seat i guess held by the kennedy family going back to our former president, j.f.k. all those years, and not really -- the whole delegation in massachusetts is totally democrat. but the people in the bay state -- when scott brown was campaigning, mr. speaker, what was his main point to make on behalf of his candidacy? i am going to go to washington if you give me this opportunity, a decent candidate in her own right. you give me this opportunity, and i am going to be the 41st vote in the united states senate, and you know what that means, that means that stops this bill dead in its tracks under regular order, under normal operating procedures. and the people of massachusetts understood that, understood that very clearly. they were, mr. speaker, very concerned, weren't they, about commonwealth care. they had had about two, 2 1/2, three years of that, and they knew, that the cost of health insurance with that kind of approach, those premiums didn't go down, they went up. they wanted no more of that. they wanted the honorable senator scott brown now to go to washington

president kennedy gave him his diploma that year. served in the u.s. house -- served in the state legislature in west virginia from 1946 to 1953, elected to the u.s. senate in 1954. majority leader twice, minority leader once, majority whip for several years as well. serve as president pro tem. on november 18, 2009, he surpassed carl hayden to become the longest serving member in history of progress. wisconsin, linda on the republican -- lyndon on the republican line. caller: i would like to give my condolences to the family. i agree with a number of other colors that there should be term limits. -- other callers that there should be term limits. not only for the president, but for the senate, the house, and the judicial system. host: why ssould there be term limits? caller: because someone gets so entrenched in the political that they forget that they are actually serving their constituents, not themselves. host: thank you for calling. delaware, carolyn, a democrat. caller: i am calling -- i considered myself one of senator byrd's number one fans. wha

kennedy's number 10.s far as foreign law is concerned, kennedy is one of the ones who most often sites foreign law. host: ok. barbra, where did you get that listing? caller: i don't remember. i pulled it up some time ago. the ones that we have on there who are liberals aren't the most liberal. guest: there's several ways to respond to that. first of all, theeamerican people don't think that. several recent polls have said do you think the court is too liberal or about right or conservative? and the plurality says too liberal. secondly, there have been really thoughtful commentators who have just recently analyzed this. stuart taylor who is as down the middle as it gets wrote a column and said no, this is not an extremely conservative court. that on legal issue after legal issue, it is moderate to at times leaning slightly left. because kennedy on some very important issues, the swing justice kennedy actually tends to come down on the liberal side. so i'll go with stuart taylor's analysis, and again, stuar

there is that familiarity, and last year you had the departure of some icons like joseph biden, ted kennedy, who had dominated the hearings of the past, it was that sense. senator leahy was with kagan you do have some people with real continuity. i think the most interesting person to watch or one of the most interesting people to watch could be arlen specter. he has lost his primary. he voted against kagan for solicitor general, and it will be interesting to see if he will come off as the prosecutor. does he tell the party line? that should be interesting to watch. >> she said -- he suspects she will say it is settled law. you think that is the big issue that will be controversial in these hearings? >> i did not know if it is the big issue. it is always a big issue whenever you have a supreme court nomination, i think along with other issues that could come up that would be hot button, such as campaign finance and free speech, the place of religion and separation of church and state. i think those are all issues, but you heard him say he thought she would say it settled law. that is close

kennedy. back in the 1960's and the 1970's and even in the 1980's and before that americans, when determined to do something, they could do it. that's why weewent to space. because nothing was going to get in the way of america going to + space and landing people on the moon. but for some reason and i think political reasons we see the end of that wonderful glorious exploration, the last frontier. america has always led in the space program except when the russians first the -- put the first sputnik into space. and the benefits that have been received from nasa's space flight have been shared all over the world. from weather satellites on. but now because of a change in philosophy the administration wants to go a new direction. that direction, of course, is nott to space, not to the moon, not to use in the shuttle, not to keep man's spacecraft available for americans to go to the space station, because when that last shuttle flight is over with, we're done. we're out of spacecraft. we have no

familiarity and last year you had the departure of some icons like biden who is now the vice president, ted kennedy who had dominated the hearings of the past. so it was sort of a new era. senator leahy is with kayen if she is confirmed to have sat through the h

kennedy, one of my heroes who headed the department of justice. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. sensenbrenner: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i insert into the record at this time a statement by the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, the running backing member of the committee -- the ranking member of the committee. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sensenbrenner: i yield myself off time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i rise today to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the department of justice. the judiciary act of 1789 which was passed by the first congress and signed into law by president george washington created the office of attorney general which eventually became the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. the department of justice began its work on july 1, 1870, through an act of congress with the attorney general at its head. since then the department has evolved into the world's largest law office and the central agency fo

i was a boston globe reporter in the washington bureau and ken was working for senator edward kennedyand his legislative staff in the 1970's. can is here for a very different reason. his career in the last two decades really this bruce the -- disproves the assumption that lawyers go into law because they cannot do math. in fact, it can has done the -- can has done the doneken -- ken has done the opposite and made a career out of working with a rather important numbers. most visibly, i think the administration of the september 11 claims fund, but he has had numerous other experiences with similar kinds of funds. he was the administrator for the virginia tech fund and even before september 11, have been involved in other funds. he was able to figure route how to take a complex litigation and compensation money and figure out how to administer all of that in a fair handed an even- handed way. that has led to his two most recent assignments. one prior to a couple weeks ago, he came to be known as the executive pay is our -- czar. he was the secretary for special compensation in which he w

i recall, as i know all of you do, john kennedy's observation that we must never fear to negotiate, bute must never negotiate out of fear. you will regard that james baker met with saddam hussein's days before we went into iraq in 1991. whenever the character rears its head, i look at the president's strong record in think, what president are they talking about? our founders spoke deliberately of the common defense, because the threats we face make no%% partisan distinctions. they are common to us all. secondly, the force is at times clearly necessary, and i have supported that use. we learned from the cold war that force alone does not win ideological struggles. then it was the promise of a better life that led some need to abandon ccmmunism and its faulse promise of progress. today, there is the hatred of a modern world that seems to have left too many behind. chronic oppression of women and girls condemns nations to poverty and abandons young men to extremist ideologies. and the failure of institutions in distant states, as we have seen from somalia to afghanistan, is a direct threat

kennedy. he addressed the american university law school commencement in 1963.upon that occasion i received my law degree and had the great honor of receiving it from him. >> so you have to have a law degree to serve in 1989? >> no, as a matter of fact there were a lot of pretenders who were not lawyers, but most members of the body have been lawyers. i learned years ago when i was starting out, in both houses of the west virginia legislature, that the lawyers seem to be the movers and shakers. they knew more about parliamentary procedure, and i decided i should try to get lawyerly. i just wanted to be a better servant. i wanted to make myself more able. >> do you recognize this picture? >> that picture, yes. i believe that is -- toch i scheck. that is senator dirksen to the left, and then i believe senator spark man is on the other side. >> let's see what we have here on the next page. >> that is a picture of president eisenhower having a little fun with the late speaker rayburn. i believe that is senator russell mom there in the center. i do not recognize the

part six through and part 7 in which kennedy, souter, and breyer joined. in which souter, ginsburg, and breyer joined. kennedy filed an opinion concurring part in which souter, ginsburg, and breyer justices joined. scalia filed an opinion. there was a dissenting opinion in which sculley joined and alito joined as to all the parts 3b2. there was a consenting opinion. roberts, the chief justice, took no part of the case. i think the one thing you can be clear about is that roberts took no part in the decision of the case. if we are trying to say that the rule of law provides a set of boundaries in which people can make decisions with confidence and in the defense of the united states of america come we need for the objective branch to have a set of rules in which they cannot operate confidently. if we cannot operate constantly, what does it give to our enemy? it says that we are morally ambiguous and that we don't know how we're operating and what we can do. the defense of freedom requires the rule of law, and the rule of what is one of the greatest supporte

joan and bill both took part in the kennedy center honors of george carlin. we've been talking about, why do you think joan is not -- why not when they talk about great comics, why don't they list her? >> who's they? who are you -- >> larry: i don't know who they are, but she's not invited to parties, she's not on -- >> i'm not on the radar. >> larry: when people name a great comic, they don't name joan rivers, but she's a great comic. >> well, you know what, first of all, don't go by they. we've all had our slights from they. i could read chapter and verse -- i could do an hour show on that with you, larry. they don't know what they're talking about. joan rivers is, you know, ask any comic. it's like, who votes for the all-star team? it's the fans, they get it wrong, but the players, when they get it right, they know. ask the comics. joan rivers is one of the great comics. i love joan rivers. i don't agree with what she said about getting the jews out of palestine, but i don't think she should have got fired about it. >> what did i say? >> larry: you got the

in the past you had john kennedy announcing a quarantine of cuba. and last night, the president seemed much more passive, much more input-oriented, he announced a czar. he announced a commission. when i was -- you know in the white house, we viewed these things as fairly weak policy inputs. you always want to push back, do something more active, more executive oriented as far as action are concerned. i thought proot had a pretty bad day yesterday, although actually a pretty good day today. i think the b.p. announcement was a good follow-up to the speech, but the speech itself was quite weak. >> when you were working for president bush you were the author of the speech delivered during katrina which was also widely-- how shall i say-- not embraced? how do the two compare from the inside and the outside? >> well, they compare-- i think in a lot of ways. the reality is, during that process, for example, we had people within the bureaucracy proposing a commission to study the problem. i pushed back hard against that. presidents don't go on national tele

nevertheless, kennedy did so. according to president had help. lyndon johnson looked to sitting justices to confirm hiss appointments. his long time friend did not want to ascend the bench, preferring his own lucrative practice as well as his continued partisan support for his friend. johnson, however, twisted the arms of to reluctant men, sending justice goldberg to the u. n. lbj had enlisted in hugo black. be jewish seat remains in act. chief justice earl warren the chief remained on the bench until the new republican president, richard jensen, named warren burger to replace them. he would rival chief justice taft for the -- burger received an inquiry from the nixon administration. could the president discuss supreme court appointments with him? the chief said it was entirely appropriate. ,fter nixon's first appointees the frustraaed president had another nominee. he was a strict constructionist. eight u.s. circuit judge harry blackmun, by all accounts, -padvocated his fellow minnesota and he would refer to himself as old no. 3 to indicate that

to establish a lasting and true friendship with senator ted kennedy from massachusetts, as we all know, who passed shortly before senator byrd and for whom senator byrd had nothing but the utmost and kindest words of praise and truly defined a friendship that perhaps has not been in american politics for sometime. this was a defining quality and a well-spring of immeasurable joy for senator byrd. for setting records and breaking his own was the inevitable result, but ultimately we are the ones who reaped the greatest benefit. in his later years when anyone questioned age as somehow detrimental to service, senator byrd reveled in picking off the names and ages of the ancients in the old testament and their continued service to the lord. moses was 120, senator byrd would say. noah was 960. he would call out, while i am but a spry 85. at 92, senator byrd work the longest record of service in congress well established, senator byrd enjoyed public service so much it's possible he also had the longest happy life on record. if only we could have captured the energies produced by his immense j

kennedy's number 10. as far as foreign law is concerned, kennedy is one of the ones who most often sites foreign law. host: ok. barbra, where did you get that listing? caller: i don't remember. i pulled it up some time ago. the ones that we have on there who are liberals aren't the most liberal. guest: there's severalays to respond to that. first of all, theeamerican people don't think that. several recent polls have said do you think the court is too liberal or about right or conservative? and the plurality says too liberal. secondly, there have been really thoughtful commentators who have just recently analyzed this. stuart taylor who is as down the middle as it gets wrote a column and said no, this is not an extremely conservative court. that on legal issue after legal issue, it is moderate to at times leaning slightly left. bause kennedy on some very important issues, the swing justice kennedy actually tends to come down on the liberal side. so i'll go with stuart taylor's analysis, and again, stuart

>> justice scalia, kennedy, and thomas would have struck down the entire law as unconstitutional. justice scalia said the majority here was basically writing the terms of a new federal crime and it should not that. >> brown: so what happens next in these convictions? >> well, the court made it... the majority made it very clear that mr. skilling was improperly convicted of honest services fraud so his case will go back to the lower court. he was convicted of, i believe, 19 other counts, so the lower court will have to decide if this count, honest services fraud, the error, infected all those other counts and charges. mr. black's case also goes back because, as the court... since the court found that the honest services fraud here only applies to bribery and kickbacks it infected the jury instructions in his case and he... the low -r court will have l also have to decide whether it can go forward there. and mr. weyhrauch is probably the luckiest of the three. i don't think his case will go forward unless the prosecution has other cases to charge him. >> brown: what are the wider im

. >> pelley: matthew bunn, of harvard's kennedy school of government, has studied the attack, and has classified report for the government on atomic security. bunn says highly enriched uranium is extremely difficult to make, and would be worth millions of dollars on the black market. and if terrorists get a hold of it, it would not be hard to build a crude atomic bomb. >> bunn: making a nuclear bomb with highly enriched uranium basically involves slamming two pieces together at high speed. that's really all there is to it. >> pelley: how much highly enriched uranium would a terrorist group need to build a weapon? >> bunn: just over a six pack's worth. >> pelley: what do you mean? >> bunn: the amount of highly enriched uranium metal would basically fit into the cans of a six pack. >> pelley: but isn't this highly radioactive? isn't it a problem handling this stuff? >> bunn: no, unfortunately not. highly enriched uranium is only very weakly radioactive. you can handle it with your hands. >> pelley: pelindaba holds more than a thousand pounds of h.e.u., and it uses some of it to make med

court of appeals level which seeks to employ a three-prong test from the bumadi; n case in which kennedy expressed himself rather assertively regarding these elements, there could be even a majority decision. the best i believe we can hope for in the defense of freedom is to have a majority decision that clarifies and brings certainty to the arena so when the military of the united states encounters and seeks to detain individuals, last matrix in which decision making can be made with confidence and which does not in some way undermine either the moral high ground the united states deserves or the decision making capacity that the united states must have in order to defend itself. as i indicated earlier, freedom is the value worth defending. it deserves an aggressive defense. its defense must be undertaken not only aggressively but in accordance with the law and principles. i believe there's an opportunity in the case which will now appear before the united states supreme court which was only announced by the court of appeals on may 21 of this last couple of weeks there will be an opport

kennedy in world war ii. but the one that made him famous was the "titanic."or 73 years, the massive ocean liner sat more than two miles down, more than 12,000 feet of pitch black water, eluding the world's top undersea explorers, until 1985, when bob ballard came along. >> ballard: that's the captain's bathtub. >> logan: that's his bathtub? >> ballard: yeah, isn't that amazing? >> logan: the images we're watching are from ballard's personal library, which he opened for us. he told us what it's like to come face to face with the world's best known shipwreck. >> ballard: we turned the corner and there it was right in front of us. >> logan: right there? >> ballard: right there. the bow was 60 feet into the bottom. >> logan: 60 feet. >> ballard: up at the very edge, because it hit with such power and it bulldozed so much. we rose along the side of the ship, and our lights were hitting the portholes and they looked like eyes. a hundred eyes, like the people who died-- it looked like people looking at us. >> logan: the fascinating thing about how you found the "tit

i've worked in every democratic administration since the kennedy administration, and i know dysfunctionality when i see it. we have really good civilian military relations in this government. my counter-part, until yesterday was david petraeus, when he got confirmed for another job. we have the clofs relationship we've ever had with a senior military official and i'm proud to have worked so closely with him, and i think we're now sending our top military command tort most difficult area. as far as u.s. relations in washington go, i've worked in everyity raise of white house state relationships and defense relationships over the last 40 years. this is one which is absent of any ideological differences, as occurred in the last administration, and several i served in. we worked closely together. there are always personal differences and ambitions, but this is just not true. it's not a dysfunctional relationship. >> ifill: the personal differences which people have focused on involve you and ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal-- he is now gone. general petraeus , as you pointed out, a g