the commission is repairing to rubberstamp it.ere is a man who is 39 years old in 1963, he's about 80 today. he is in daley plaza. he gets stuck in traffic sleeping in his car received a motorcade go by. he sees kennedy murdered. while he's standing there, a bullet hits the curb next to him and to reflect a bullet bounces off and cuts his cheek. a dallas sheriff's office deputy sees this and is what happened to your face? he realizes he's bleeding. he's seen john kennedy's head explode. so he's in shock. but as they take and the police station company files a report inheres nothing more about the shot. the warren commission according to the newspapers is clear. the second shot his cobbling. the third shot his kennedy, case closed. well, we've got an extra shot. all of a sudden arlen specter has a major problem. jane mayer, writes a wire story about the uncounted shot appeared for three weeks, jay edgar herbert tries to say there was no shot. what are you talking about. the ready cut out the piece of the curve that has the evidence

in the courts.s almost all decisions in this area -- i do not want to say rubberstamp. time, in the last two months, we have seen in the 200 significantrogram a decision saying it was not constitutional. we have seen a few decisions describing how these counterterrorism programs have gone. do you think there is greater maturity on these issues? you think there has been a shift in how the government feels about this now? 9/11, i the horror of think the first action was to beef up our efforts. on, i think wee have struck up more of a balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties concerns. poll where a substantial percentage of people said they would not give up their privacy and civil liberties, and that was after a horrific event. our board sits in the middle of a debate. we are not an advocacy organization where we ignore the consequences to national security. we have to strike the balance and say, how can we protect the country and benefit privacy and civil liberties? the 9/11 commission and the president have said the same thing. if we give up one,

rubberstamp the settlements quite literally with staff.the ticket to the ninth circuit and after a year and a half we got the result that said you have to look out defense and whether the eternal czar favors of themselves. it is starting to turn the tide because before we got involved, again, you have these one-sided presentations and judges with bank, my job is to promote settlement and wouldn't necessarily look at this allocation problem. again, it is important because the latter settlement can go forward. you'll see more class-action and manages bad for everybody. is bad for kids at risk because their costs go up. it's also bad because if you're a plaintiff's attorney, do i want to bring this complex class-action or do i want to bring lots and lots of small class-action that i can quickly make a big paycheck on? the answer is your not even going after the bad guy. you are looking for ways to go after deep pocket after deep pocket, whether there is the class-action misallocation of resources to actually do some good by going out to real

. >> the bundesbank has rubberstamped this.ahead. >> believe me, later on when mario draghi gives the press conference, if they have not started the sterilization, if they don't give a sign of that, you will be pressed so hard on that issue. >> will there be an interest-rate cut, some other kind of measure that smells like quantitative easing? or the deposit rate could go negative. >> let's being talked about, jonathan, thank you. >> be sure to watch the ecb decision later this afternoon. 12:45 the rate decision, 1:30 the news conference. latestier we had the earnings from sony. it forecast a lost for the year and said it will sell its pc business as sales decline. h=p and dell saw a drop in pc sales last year. but get more about the business from a partner who joins us now. something bloomberg has been reporting now 24 hours or so, selling the pc business, how significant is this to your world? from theat significant venture world, from the early start up world, and not unexpected either. the manufacturing base is going to the

retroactively rubberstamped to that.newhe made that vote, i the fix was in. >> go back to the original reason we asked you to come talk about the book. did you get much reaction out of the column? >> i got a fair amount of reaction. virtually all of it was positive in that as we have discussed, there are certain gaps in recollection were things he says in one place that don't square with things he says somewhere else. again, it is not so much about gates, other than he was a very important person in this drama , afghanistan, the war on terror and associated issues that have had a profound .ffect on the american psyche people don't want to realize that there is a less attractive id underneath our bravado about how good we are. we practice things like torture and try tonation sweep them under the carpet. the book was leaked out to the washington post and the new york times and the wall street journal and then it started interviews on television. it to thethe view of point where it became a number one bestseller. what do yo

the cases are still getting rubberstamped. for the first 15 years after the class-action acts, courts were not enforcing this. part of that was when there was a coupon settlement, the parties would not say, this is a coupon settlement. it was rebates, gift cards, vouchers. you would have these coupon settlements, but nobody would ever call it a coupon settlement. and judges would just be ok with that. or at least until the center for class-action fairness came in. and in all six of these cases and even without going in and pointing out 1712 and saying, you have to treat this as a coupon case, only half of the courts actually did anything. and in one case it was because we took it up on appeal. it was the very first appellate decision, reported appellate decision actually addressing how you treat coupon settlements. and in that very first case, inkjet, the ninth circuit said, no you have to follow what the law says. people ask me whether we need legislative change. how do you we write the statute so that the judges follow it? d

the case are still getting rubberstamped.or the first 15 years after the class-action acts, courts were not enforcing this. part of that was when there was a coupon settlement, the parties this is a coupon settlement. it was rebates, gift cards, vouchers. these coupone settlement, but nobody would ever call it a coupon settlement. and judges would just be ok with that. or at least until the senate for class-action fairness came in. and in all six of these cases and even without going in and pointing out 1712 and saying, you have to treat this as a coupon case, only half of the court actually did anything. and in one case it was because we took it up on appeal. it was the very first appellate decision, reported appellate decision actually addressing how you treat coupon settlements. and in that very first case, inkjet, the ninth circuit's -- the ninth circuit said, no you have to follow what the law says. we needsk me whether legislative change. how do you we write the statute so that the judges follow it? answer is, how do yo

almost all decisions in this area -- i do not want to say rubberstamp. 99% of the time, in the last two months, we have seen in the 215 program a significant decision saying it was not constitutional. we have seen a few decisions describing how these counterterrorism programs have gone. do you think there is greater maturity on these issues? you think there has been a shift in how the government feels about this now? >> after the horror of 9/11, i think the first action was to beef up our efforts. as time has gone on, i think we have struck up more of a balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties concerns. there was a poll where a substantial percentage of people said they would not give up their privacy and civil liberties, and that was after a horrific event, boston marathon bombing. our board sits in the middle of a debate. we are not an advocacy organization where we ignore the consequences to national security. we have to strike the balance and say, how can we protect the country and benefit privacy and civil liberties? the 9/11 commission and the president ha

who is more likely to have this the rubberstamp? the germans or the eu?ays that this reduces the risk. this is euro-positive. it helped politicize the response of the ecb to the crisis across the eurozone. on top of that, how constrained the ecb are to respond to any potential financial crisis? q.e. started in the u.s.. when did it start in the uk? they question the legality of a bond buying plan in the eurozone. >> the german top court can say, we do not agree with that but it depends on what the european high court says. >> details expressed doubts about legality from a measure of 6-2. they are doubting the legality of it, but look, it has to be said on the other side of things as well -- this is a big tom a big decision. -- big decision. >> i'm not sure this. ago,u said that 18 months this would have been huge. but if something happens with greece, a political crisis coming up in the next 12 months and the omt has this massive question over its bill, that is not a good place to be. >> 18 months ago this would have caused, this would have been enormous

is even as a nonprofit when we bring pretty modest fee requests, judges that are very happy to rubberstamp multimillion dollar fee requests come in and start asking about every little piece of our request. they knocked one down to $10,000. it has gotten to the point where i said, we are not wasting time on them anymore. it is snapping too much of our resources. we will do it in one big case a year, where we won millions of dollars and it is unambiguous we're entitled to fees. without creating that incentive structure, there'll always be a problem. the class action fairness act, section 715, congress thought they were doing something. before they have a class-action settlement, they have to notify all states attorneys generals that a class action settlement -- give them a chance to reject. that has done absolutely nothing. you see the state attorneys general coming in, maybe one or two cases a year. even then, judges ignore them and the state attorneys general has no standing to appeal. there is no incentive for the state attorneys general to get involved. who will watch the watchmen watchi

and i want to see if you are going to show any independence or if you are just going to rubberstamp the white house and the president. and i will give you an example of what i'm talking about. when the president makes a statement in the sea for targeting situation comedy party situation targeting that there is not even a smidgen of corruption in a situation. after you testified to us and confirm to the american public that there are six open investigations that have not been completed yet. is that a responsible statement from our commander-in-chief to draw a conclusion on national tv, talking to millions of americans that you can trust me, there isn't a smidgen of corruption in the party targeting situation? .. today that the investigations are nowhere complete. so, is that a responsible statement or is that something that may be a little irresponsible? >> i don't want to get into a big argument here. a lot of statements have been made in the face of an open investigation that would be drawing conclusions prior to the conclusion of that investigation. so, i don't think that there is a s