there has been a concerted effort under john brennan in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge, to use unprecedented numbers of drone attacks. and it's been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. these people were trying to keep low cover, not being -- not coming out into the open. it hampered them operationally and ultimately led to their demise. not just where we saw around the al qaeda leadership itself, but also these splinter groups. and so, you know, if you look at what the president said he would do in trying to get elected, this fits that. and people can say whether they, you know, like his policy on israel or not, they can pick holes in it, but at least he did what he said he would do when it came to al qaeda. >> thank you so much for coming on. thank you as always richard wolfe for excellent commentary on a big, good day for america. it's always better to win when you're up against bad guys. up next a new poll shows most americans still blame the bad economy on bush. that's good for president obama. but how much l

the brennan center for justice has published a comprehensive study which shows a staggering number of people may be disenfranchised by the new laws which would require voters to show photo identification at polls, cut back early voting and hinder voter registration efforts. the brennan center study shows legislatures in a total of over 40 states, have introduced new laws including seven states that have already enacted new voter i.d. laws this year. many have already enacted new voter i.d. laws this year. the new trend which may actively work to nullify the votes has a number of people worried, including president barack obama. listen to what he told me this past friday on my radio program. >> some of these moves in some of the other states that we've seen are trying to make it tougher to vote, restricting ballot access, making it hard on seniors, making it hard on young people. i think that's a big mistake and i have made sure that our justice department is taking a look at what's being done across the country to ensure that people aren't being denied access to the franchise. >> so w

according to the brennan center for justice, the states that have already placed further restrictionson voting will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012. 63% of the 270 needed to win the presidency. joining me now is msnbc contributor and tulane university professor of political science, melissa harris-perry. thanks for joining me tonight, melissa. >> absolutely. glad to be here. >> melissa, it seems clear what the intent of the designs are. you never see politicians touching anything around the rules of voting except in ways they believe will help their party. this is all taking place, almost all of it taking place in republican states with a very clear intent. >> sure. here's the point. it doesn't matter what the intent is. hopefully the involvement of the justice department and preclearance laws should get us to a good place on this. because the point here is that the impact is disparate. even if the intent is neutral, in other words, even if those who draft these laws claim that there's no partisan or racial purposes behind it, if the impact is clearly a disparate impact, one if th

i failed to hear the knock on the door, and bill brennan, on my left, bill rehnquist, on my right, got up to answer the door. made me feel that i was about two feet high. i remembered that one of the most important jjobs of the junior justice is to answer the door. >> being in a conference run by warren burger or bill rehnquist or john roberts -- can you explain the differences and how warren burger changed the procedure in the court about how you participate? >> the change i think he is responsible for -- i cannot justify from personal -- testify from personal knowledge -- but i am quite sure that it is the change in the order of voting. when i was a law clerk at under rutledge, he explained that the case would be discussed with the chief justice describing the case, and then the justice is talking about the case in order of seniority, explaining the general views of the case and so forth until it went to the end of the line. but then the voting began with the junior justice, was followed in reverse order. i know that was a practice when rutledge was on the court, when i was a law cle

brennan understand what's in the legislation? mr. graham: well, i thank the senator from arizona and all of my colleagues for working on what is a very difficult subject matter, but when 25-1 becomes the outcome, that's pretty good. and i don't know what the -- this is not -- quite frankly, i like senator reid. this goes back to the white house. this is president obama's team. this is not harry reid. this is not the senate holding up this bill. it's the white house holding up this bill because they have an irrational view of what we need to be doing with the detainees. they have lost the argument, and i tried to help, to close guantanamo bay. it's not going to close. we're not going to move those prisoners inside the united states. the congress has said no. the american people have said no. and the reason we have lost that argument is after working with the white house for about a year and a half to try to find a national security-centric detainee policy that would ensure the american people that we're not going to let these people r

i mean, let's give, you know, common cause and the public citizen. >> for sure. >> justice brennan saidere have been people who gave this a lot of thought and struggle with buckley and valero and how we deal with the constitutional issue of speech. this provided an opportunity for a member to either have things currently as they are with the status quo or go to a version that's still, us a point out, requires the ability to raise money but understanding that in this day and age, with all the money that's needed to go on tv, to get your message out and everything else, i mean, i would have a number of other reforms as it relates to campaigns, but this was a step, and we believe a step in the right direction. >> dylan -- >> congressman jones, how can people learn more? how can people get involved forcing this debate not 2012 presidential election, with this amendment or anything else that's here? >> well, thanks again for your effort. we wanted the people to know, and thank you again for this opportunity for john larson and myself to say that we are trying. we need the american people to

what the president has got in john brennan is someone with the authority and focus to follow there. there's been an effort in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge to use unprecedented drone attacks and it's been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. they were trying to keep low cover. not coming out into the open. it hampered them operationally and led them to their demise, not just around the al qaeda leadership its, but the splinter groups. look at what the president said he would do to get elected. it fits that. people can say whether they like his policy on israel or not. at least he said what he was going to do with al qaeda. >> thank you as always for excellent commentary on a big, good day for america. it's always better to win when you are against bad guys. >>> most americans blame the bad economy on bush. it's good for president obama. bush is probably not going to run next time. just kidding. this is "hardball" on msnbc. i don't want healthy skin for a day. i want healthy skin for life. [ female announcer ] do

this would also be a location with limited public access, including the brennan street wharf. this is obviously going to be a key place for event the party infrastructure to make it safe for the uses that are there. right now, it is not approved for this level of activity. with approval, it would then make this more habitable and would allow themselves to put their installations on top. as i mentioned earlier, i want to step back and take a look at the broad economic strategy. we mentioned the billion dollar number, the jobs number, over a thousand. those projections are obviously very exciting, but we need to do what we can to deliver on those promises. what we have tried to do is take a strategical, looking at the different opportunities that are going to arise, how best to access those through public policies, contracts with our partners, just general work with our city constituents. small businesses that work for us, to make sure that they are ready as they can to take advantagethis diagram is a rougt you were a -- ready way to describe what we're looking at. from the cent

brennan understand what's in the legislation? mr. graham: well, i thank the senator from arizona and all of my colleagues for working on what is a very difficult subject matter, but when 25-1 becomes the outcome, that's pretty good. and i don't know what the -- this is not -- quite frankly, i like senator reid. this goes back to the white house. this is president obama's team. this is not harry reid. this is not the senate holding up this bill. it's the white house holding up this bill because they have an irrational view of what we need to be doing with the detainees. they have lost the argument, and i tried to help, to close guantanamo bay. it's not going to close. we're not going to move those prisoners inside the united states. the congress has said no. the american people have said no. and the reason we have lost that argument is after working with the white house for about a year and a half to try to find a national security-centric detainee policy that would ensure the american people that we're not going to let these people r

our guest is -- brennan center is part of the nyu law school. guest wendy weiser is from the department of justice at this center. guest: we have seen an unfortunate increase in the politicization of the rules governing our election. it started in 2000 when the cut in fought the florida election fiasco and the way in which we conduct our elections can make a difference in the outcome of the elections. we have seen year after year and an unfortunate increase in politicization. 2010, we have not really seen any difference on the ground that changed who was in office. that is why these rules are much more successful this year. host: new haven, connecticut. caller: i am 64 and i have had politicians, pundits telling us that our most precious right is the right to vote. this is why as citizens we should vote. at 64, i remember there have been so many scandals about dead people voting and people who are not eligible to vote. perhaps illegal immigrants voting. there are some towns that have instituted giving non-citizens the right to vote in local elec

as john brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, stated in a march speech -- and i quote -- "terrorists arrested inside the united states will, as always, be processed exclusively through our criminal justice system. and they should be. the alternative would be inconsistent with our values and our adherence to the rule of law. our military does not patrol our streets or enforce our laws in this country, nor should it." end quote. i couldn't agree more. in summary, amendment 753 authored by the senator from new hampshire will severely and seriously undermine our ability to incapacitate dangerous individuals and protect the american people. i believe this is something we cannot afford, and i really hope that this body will do everything it can to present -- excuse me -- to protect executive authority, to give that executive flexibility. i would like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a summary list from march of 2010 of more than 400 terrorist convictions in article 3 courts. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. feinste

please identify yourself and ask your question. >> kate brennan. defense news.nder if you could comment on the lack of impact it would be if congress is unable to pass an authorization bill for 2012? audit any areas that are particularly complicated by that? >> yes, that is a complication for us. they are our authorities, in fact, i'm looking at right now, that expired at the end of this fiscal year. authorization, not appropriations, that expired at the end of this fiscal year. they are extremely valuable to us, and what we are doing overseas, and unless the congress acts to pass a new authorization bill, or expressly deals with something in a new appropriations bill, or c.r., we have real problems here and so, you know, it is the case that every time congress, instead of passing a full year's appropriations bill, passes a c.r., there are some authorities that get left behind and we have to scramble to figure out how to cope with. so, all of us hope that what we've seen over the last year or two does not become the norm. >> well, folks, i think we've had an exc

say anything about this killing, which is a stark contrast from when bin laden was killed and john brennan came out and told us basically everything we wanted to know about it. do you think that speaks to the legalty of the investigation or lessons learned? >> i think it's a combination of both, lessons learned. they got into hot water for saying things that turned out not quite to be true. also the fact he is an american is a sensitive issue. there was a legal battle over that earlier this year with al lackey's father had gone to a federal court saying please stop this. this is illegal. the court threw it out, by the way. gwen: it wasn't long ago the administration saying al qaeda is weakened, leon panetta said that. now he's saying they're really, really weakened. is this that significant they can stop worrying about al qaeda? >> this is huge. al qaeda central, based in afghanistan and pakistan, was severely damaged. bin laden led that group. they had been killing their leaders for quite some time. again, al qaeda in yemen, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was a group that tried again n

brennan on my left and rehnquist on my right both got up to answer the door. they made me feel like i was about two feet high. one of the most important jobs of a junior justice is to remember that you are a doorman. >> retired associate justice john paul stevens on his new memoir "five chiefs" on c-span q&a. quite similar good story has a good beginning, solid metal, and a strong ending. >> you do not need the best video equipment. cell phones and flip cams do a great job. if you do not have access to the d.r. equipment, do not lead it stop you. >> the process can be confusing, but c-span will help you stay organized. i find it helpful to make a checklist. the process becomes clear wants to get started. >> another great thing is that you can work alone or in teams. for example, if you are a good writer but not good with a camera, get a friend to help out. you'll both learn something and increase your chance of winning. >> you do not need be an expert to make this work. you can use your parents, other students, teachers, and c-span as resources. this is both o

new voter id laws that the republicans are passing in the states that they control according to the brennan center for justice just based on laws that have already passed and there's still some pending at least five million people will show up next year at the polls thinking they can vote thinking they're all registered everything's fine and if you turn away this really is a crime against democracy we really need to get everybody voting only then can america fulfill its true potential so let's hope more states follow north dakota's example and do way altogether reporter registration our next question came to us via the viewer comment line on friday's show i asked our big picture rumble analysts a very important question there are a lot. looks like the tea baggers are fading fast no more rallies the public has kind of turned against them and now the occupy wall street movement seems to be capturing the discontent america to get back in the headlines but she baggers are looking for a name change which they probably should have done one time ago so what will be a the zombie corp the force that

to think that we actually work with that with the yemeni government i should point out that john brennan who's the president's chief advisor on counterterrorism and someone who i've interviewed and i know more is really has been our liaison to president saleh all through the yemen crisis and the arab spring and before that he's worked very closely with the saudi government and with the with president saleh on issues like going after bad guys in yemen for the past three years so they're very close maria back to this issue of the significance of this fellow being a u.s. citizen during the bush administration the posse comitatus law that was passed after the civil war which said never again will american soldiers on american soil turn their guns on american citizens civilians but that is absolutely forbidden that was law from one thousand nine hundred sixty seven or whenever it was passed in the late eighteenth sixty's or early early eighteenth seventies there was basically law from then until just a few years ago during the bush administration when it got repealed and i believe in the mili

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billy brennan on my right, they both got up and answered the door.el like i was two feet high. i learned from that that one of the most important jobs of the junior justice is to remember that you are the dormant. >> john paul stevens on his new memoir,

billy brennan on my left and bill rehnquist on my right, they both got up and answer the door.made me feel two be high. one of the most important jobs of the two new justices to remember that you are the doorman. -- john paul stevens sunday night on c-span. >> some people say that to succeed in this world we need to be more like india or china or brazil. i say we need to be more like us. >> on this final sunday of a british party conferences, david cameron sets the tone and goals for his party in the upcoming year. watch his keynote address from the conservative party conference sunday at 9:00 on c- span. live wednesday, look for the return the prime minister's questions on c-span2. >> if you think that a bill of rights is what sets this apart, you're crazy. every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights. every president -- the bill of rights of the former evil empire, the u.s.s.r., was much better than ours. literally, it was much better. we guarantee freedom of speech and press, they demonstrated protests in anyone who is caught trying to suppress criticism of the go

brennan understand what's in the legislation? >> well, thank you, senator from arizona, and all my colleagues working on what is very difficult subject matter, but when 25 to 1 is the outcome, that's pretty good, and i don't know what the -- this is not harry reid quite frankly. i like him. this goes back to the white house. this is president obama's team. this is not harry reid, not the senate 408ing up this bill. it's the white house holding the bill because they are having an irrational bill of what we need to to to be doing with detainees. they lost the argument. we're not going to move prisoners inside the united states. the congress said no. the american people said no. the reason we lost that argument is because after working with the white house for about a year and a half to try to find a national security centric, detainee policy that would ensure the american people that were not going to let the people roam around the world and treat them as common criminals, they could never pull the trigger on the hard stuff. we're

brennan, has it wrong.'m not sure that he's read this legislation based on the objections that he's raised, because we are giving the president authority to detain, which is very important authority, which he can exercise based on the national security of this country, and in order to have military custody, you have to be a member of al qaeda or an affiliated force, and planning an attack against us or a coalition partner. that's where the mandatory -- where the military custody comes in place and i think that's very important because, of course, if you're a member of al qaeda and you're planning an attack against the united states of america or our coalition partners, it seems to me that's a very appropriate instance for military custody given that we remain at war with al qaeda and that the threats from al qaeda are still very grave to our country as demonstrated -- mr. had mr. mccain: i ask my colleague, so the statement mr. brennan made on his speech on september 16 at the harvard law school saying our

brennan or his deputy, which that makes as muchceps as anything else. okay.it makes sense, in other words. senator a caw caw, thank you for being here. >> thank you for for this, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today. i've long been concerned about bilogical attacks, especially against our food and agriculture service system. the difficulty in tracking this loss of recent e. coli outbreak in germany and france reenforces my concerns here. a bioterrorism attack committed anywhere in the world could easily spread to the united states. we must detect and attack early and limit its impact, which is why we need to continue to strengthen, strengthen domestic and overseas surveillance capabilities. last month, i held a area hearing on how the u.s. would respond to an attack on our food and agricultural systems, and an issue was raised at the hearing was the lack of indicators of emerging threats to food and agriculture within the intelligence community. my question is how are the bureaus' intelligence activities targeting bilogical threats and in parti

brennan light into my life right now.ce weather in terms of temperature tomorrow a shower will be spot the most hours greinke free when we turn cooler and animation from the bottles shows how scattered showers will be tomorrow sot clout makes cloudier during the afternoon and by late tomorrow night-thursday morning rainfall continues off and on thursday into friday morning and at that gusty northwest wind temperatures drop how much rainfall on the way pop through tomorrow and not very much here we are through thursday morning about speaking up after that to the west of los some earlier had an upper top inch of rainfall coming down with the building to the west huge pot of store development colors suddenly blossomed with the caustic 20-30 mi. per hour. distraught wed start delivering cool air first to deplane states to borrow how the orange and yellow areas struck wed still got it here on thursday morning during the day late in the day when it turned northwest picking up right there as we get into thursday night-friday wou

according to the brennan center for justice, 5 million eligible voters may not be able to vote in 2012ause of new laws that require photo i.d., proof of citizenship and reduced early voting periods. 19 new laws and 2 executive actions have passed in 14 republican dominated states including texas where rick perry signed a law that allows voters to show concealed handgun permits but not student i.d.s. these laws passed mostly by republicans target voters who tend to vote for democrats. the young, the poor and minorities. many of the bills are supported by the american legislative exchange council, an arm funded by the koch brothers machine. joining me now, ari berman, author of "the gop war on voting" and "rolling stone." author of "herding donkeys: the fight to rebuild the democratic party and american politics." if you want people to vote, if you want 100% turnout, we make it easier for them. we don't want that. the media doesn't want it. they want it contained in one little day where they can report it. they don't like this early voting. make it one national holiday if we want to make

big impressive comeback ad slash campaign pledge that is a little underwhelming if only, as steve brennanpoints out today because that would have him creating jobs at a slower pace than president obama has been creating jobs in this economy. but basically, the ad is a cliff's notes version of rick perry's overall jobs plan, which is a 2012 redux of drill, baby, drill. >> i'll start by opening american oil and gas fields. i'll eliminate president obama's regulations that hurt other sources of domestic energy like coal and natural gas.s arthe main point of rick perry's jobs plan. on the first page of his plan he promises that on his first day in office he'll open federal land like the alaskan national wildlife refuge and the atlantic outer continental shelf to drilling. he also says he'll okay the keystone xl pipeline, he'll immediately suss sxend reconsider clean air act regulations, he'll stop, quoting, lawsuit abuse by setting time limits on permit-related lawsuits. he will repeal the environmental protection agency's authority over greenhouse gases. he'll eliminate all current and plann

and the fact of the texas statute, protective of the flag made justice brennan explain the decision saying well the decision was viewpoint based. well there was nothing wrong with their protesting reagan, but burning the flag in order to he show their disrespect. if you say that view point discrimination, that would justify any kind of expressive nduct that disagrees with some particular statute. such as if you use a very loud sound truck to parade around the streets. you can just say that's view point discrimination because they're not only conveying the message they're inavor of whatever polital but ao they tonight believe in regulating sound tracks. they should be allowed to do it. what i'm saying is i think the decision, the opinion itself was not that wisely reaned. the reasoning was not good. and of course the main consequences of the decision is that nobody burns flags anymore. >> charlie: because of the decision. >> well i ppose that's why. but obviously, it's not an overridingly important method of communication because we've gotten along whout it for the last 25 years. >> charlie

>> he was notified early this morning by john brennan, his counterterrorism advisor, and he was briefed on it again this morning. >> woken up by a phone call? >> he was just notified. i won't get into specifically how -- >> you said this morning. can you tell us when he was -- >> early this morning. >> no, when was -- >> before the sun rose. >> when did brennan first -- what time? >> i don't have a specific time for you, but it was early. >> you said he was briefed twice. that's why i was -- >> i mean that he was notified when he was still in the residence. and then this morning, once he came to the oval, he had his normal pdb daily briefing, intel briefing, and this was obviously a subject there in that discussion. >> so going back, nobody questions that both this administration and the prior have identified aqap as a threat. other u.s. officials have said this was a u.s. drone, and we know this is an american. so don't the american people deserve to understand our government's justification for killing -- or deciding where and when an american can be killed, in this case someone who i

joining me again, george will, rum berg television's margaret brennan, laura tyson a member of the president'ss council and former clinton administration economic adviser and jon karl again. thank you for being here. margaret, you're down at wall street every single day. what are people inside the stock exchange making of what is going on outside? >> interesting, i'm inside every day and went down to talk to the protesters on friday the frustrations inside and outside are similar. 45 million americans on food stamps, 14 million americans unemployed. but inside of wall street, they're more angry at what's not happening in washington, lack of clarity and lack of momentum. outside attacking the symbol of banks,ed symbol of money and it's not quite clear what they're asking for but the frustration is something that people are definitely noticing. >> their frustration, wall street bankers frustration about washington, you're on the president's jobs council, what is going to happen? what is going to make some kind of impact in this jobs crisis right now? >> you know, the jobs act that just went down