with us now is spokesperson clinton johnson with some better news. inton, let's talk right now about the current conditions in the bart system. >>: trains right now are moving . how everyone trying to get out of downtown san francisco or into downtown 7 cisco, you are looking of delays of about 10 minutes for most passengers. patrons on the train when the person fell onto the tracks probably experienced about a 20 minute delay. here we are trying to get all the trains in all directions back on >>: schedule> linton johnson saying they have resolved the medical emergency, the person is no longer on the track with. the proper part did occur at the powell street station. trains were being turned back for the east bay for about 20 minutes. when i spoke with clinton before this conversation he said it should take about 20 minutes-a half an hour for this to completely patrons will only experience 10-20 minute delays, and another 20 minutes, we should have no more delays. if you are trying to get to sfo you may want to the about leaving earlier than usual or

how well clinton johnson deal with the traumatized nation or robert kennedy? how wade johnson with the assumptions and a mind-set so different deal with civil rights? or the cuban missile crisis? that is one of the questions i tried to answer in the book "then everything changed" it is a trio of alternative histories that center on contemporary american politics. contemporary for some of us. they're all rooted in the common notion that the smallest west and turn of fate can produce radical consequences. it is written as a fictional narrative, not as nsa but dialogue and scenes but histories i have tried to ground and plausibility on the thought and believes it imposes and instincts of a player's has drawn from history and oral histories and several interviews with those who knew the players. and the common thread is it does not turn on a time but a nickel. there are theories that focus on geography, climate, natural resources, theology, ideolog y, a great leaders, but the smallest random access is one that we who like to see patterns are sometimes ignored. the

interesting if he could have provided -- the only other president in peach, clinton and johnson. for johnson it really was nothing to be done. if they passed a law he would veto it. finally they had enough and decided to get rid of him. they were not successful. he was in impeached but save from conviction and removal from office by one vote and he continued as a sort of lame duck as the world passed him by. people have said to me that he did bring something good. as a result of his recalcitrance we have the fourteenth amendment and that is true. that is the silver lining. but on the other hand if you think about -- i think about the missed opportunities in terms of land reform. he was against land reform. think what the lives of african-americans would have been like, how different they would have been if the freemen could have had farmers to grow their own food, to become independent, sort of delay of black advancement as far as economic prosperity. this was a result of the things he did. i want to make plain that i don't believe -- there is criticism of great man's history tha

was an act was in force then it came after vietnam when they got disgusted with lyndon johnson and nixon so yes clinton did that's exactly what happened but i think obama is in new territory since he's not going to get funding special funding approved like bill clinton did so he's well he's gone farther than clinton and of course george bush for all his failings he did get congressional authorization for afghanistan and iraq and he was the champion of executive power but obama has really gone further in this case than bush ever went couple things on that why is he getting a free pass they don't feel like we're saying that much about it or criticism and what does this say about a president that campaigned on a not getting involved militarily when you weren't attacked and in u.s. wars and following the law i mean he had a sound bite that we played at the beginning of the show where he said that we will be ruled by law we will no longer violate the constitutional law that's not who we are as a country but it seems to be who he is as a president if this is an example well he's a constitutional law professo

johnson for use them? >> they become free after the war has been a key may have read a couple. >> would you think of john sens argument? >> clinton said that. that secession was illegal and he said that because it secession is illegal, then the president exercises his power under the power to quell rebellions broke out if he it is legal and they left, then you could say they are territories and congress moves territories. it is political separation of powers, a political argument but linkdin died so we don't know. or what he really thought but he said that was the attraction. johnson took it very much to heart and was very bitter role minded on that. what i think is that buy she did said that the government. it is hard to pretend they were not real. what they had was and real and they should have been governed as territories and keep the military rule over more than they did. i understand the argument but practically and realistically they set up their own government and stopped participating and went away for a time period. >> with the base of support support, after all from the southern diehards but then for the abolitionist? >

johnson he is white house. thanks a lot, whit. also in washington is former ambassador mark ginsberg, who's lived in israel, egypt, jordan and lebanon. he served as u.s. ambassador to morocco under president clinton. ambassador, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you've been involved in a number of these high-level discussions before. i wonder what's you're watching this frosty photo-op yesterday, what do you think? >> i'm more concerned about the fact that there seems to be this theoretical discussion over borders when the peace process itself is completely stalled, and the palestinians are focused on generating a u.n. general assembly resolution calling for recognition of a palestinian state, around those '67 borders. the united states and israel have obviously some disagreement here. but at the same time, it's going to take the united states to help get the peace -- stalled peace process under way, russ. and without direct presidential involvement, the president can make all the statements that he wishes, but unless the parties sit down to actually do the negotiating, we're really talking in the clouds here. >> as whit pointed out, of course, the president made that 1967 border proposal