the president told the story about how ginsburg's first week at harvard law school they summoned the women and asked them to justify their place at harvard law school. how can you justify taking the place of a man? that same became the general of the united states and was her opponent in that case of susan struct, the woman woman who did not want to have an abortion. so he pops up again and again in the book to mess up her life. he convinced military to change the policy. so the case of susan struct was accepted by the supreme court but it was never heard. >> of the guy break, that's not a bad thing. they change the policy. >> because -- >> but it's not so bad. >> she wanted susan struct have the right to keep her pregnancy she wanted to. the plan did not evolve what happened to wesley was that roe v wade struck down all bands on abortion in the country all at once. she is someone who likes to go slow. she did not like that it happened all at once. she thought there's a lot of respect to people who disagree with her. she believed that created the antiabortion by giving them a single t

ruth left harvard law school for third-year. that's why she transferred to columbia. >> and in keeping with the theme of the diversity while he is law school. >> that's right. and she typed up his notes, she would type up his papers for them all while doing her work and taking care of chain who is just a toddler the time. >> her daughter. >> her daughter. she moved to new york because of him and did not want to separate the family and harbor would not let her obtain a harvard degree as part of that. they would not let her spend your third-year -- >> said the wife of mr. ginsberg is a federal judge and was a professor at columbia law school. imagine school. imagine what she could accomplish if she had gone to harvard. [laughter] >> that's pretty good. all right. they moved to new york and she starts her career. what is her career? >> something that is so fascinating. you asked the question, looking at the early part of her life you see somebody who experienced diversity, she had a lot of doors slammed in her face. the woman, mothe

were two different findings at harvard. >> i don't agree with you because the appeal process is a normal process in schools and i don't think you can criticize the harvard lawch is a very ethical, honorable group of people, the best law school in america, probably -- >> i want too ask you about something you wrote in your press release. you said the accuser, camilla, quote, capitalized on her accusations to become a celebrity end quote. mr. zalkind, do you believe this is the kind of notoriety or celebrity that camilla would have wanted this kind of public scrutiny, this kind of embarrassment, to have to talk about what happened in her sex life? >> it sure seems that way. i've seen videos of her in presentations, she's becoming a spokesman for -- for victims went she's not a victim. yeah, i believe she's cap toolizing on this, i believe she's making a career on this. she looks much happier when on tv than she was in the courtroom. she was not credible. >> mr. zalkind, i met her as well, i've seen her crying, look sensitive, i've seen her look distraught. that is your interpretation. and it's an awfully cynical one that she would want to go through, again, t

was actually left harvard law school for her third year. that's why she transferred to columbia because marty got a job in downtown new york. >> and again in keeping with the theme of adversity, while his in law school he gets cancer. >> that's right. he actually typed up his notes. she would type up his papers for them, all while doing her work and taking care of jane, just a toddler at the time. her daughter. and she moved to newark because of him and she did want to separate the family coming harvard actually would not let her of being a harvard degree as result of that. they wouldn't let her spend her third year in colombia's osha to transfer. she did okay. >> it worked out okay for her. [laughter] .. the editors of the harvard law record said the wife of mrs. ginsberg is a federal judge and a professor at colby a law school. imagine what she could have accomplished if she had gotten a harvard degree. [laughter] >> that's pretty good. so they moved to new york, she starts her career. what is her career? >> it is something so fascinating.

he is a former student at harvard law school and he is a rule guy.k you need a statute out of limitations. they want him to be at the game and the world series. they don't wouldn't tay live in -- they don't want to live in the front door. >> you don't have to -- it is not a fall of fame decision. they are not lifting the ban. that's what they had to do. that's the first step. we will close things out with a bedtime story. >>> no "red eye" tomorrow. we will be back on wednesday. >> elon-musk says they must colonize mars. his company space x will announce plans 20* carry humans to red planet, possibly the next 10 to 15 years. and musk believes a mars colony can survive the calamity on earth. he told "esquire" if you back up your hard drive maybe we should back up life too. wow. that seems extreme. >> he is -- he sees the future. and we are going to be super men on mars. i am completely with him. >> mars is very, very uninhabitable. >> if we have noal turn five. did you see "the martian." >> you can grow stuff. >> you an grow potatoes. >> i don't want t

. >> my attitude towards that was before he became the justice used to teach at harvard law school and would tell us in class but you want to know what the common man thinks that i asked myself what i think. [laughter] and that is how i feel about brandeis. [laughter] >> say a little more you gave a beautiful speech how he influenced you. >> in part because he did strongly believe to look into the circumstances of a particular case. what the values will grow out of and understand swiping it is important to look. he felt this about federal and state government we know the phrase of the laboratories of experiments in the same thing with the problems that are facing us. and with respect to the combat -- constitution there is a great deal of rewrite federal legislature should. but there comes a point now we can go through all kinds of reasoning to discuss that point. he explains it very eloquently. and in my own experience with the court that didn't sound very articulate but it does ring true and how do you know, ? i being brandeis had a way to approach that but i do require him. >> host:

he will be joined by jacob gerson, professor of law at harvard law school. the director and founder of the food law lab at harvard law school and is working on a book called from court to table. i'm telling you we could not have done better than seek and jacob. this conversation will be moderated by michael gerhardt. michael is our new visiting scholar here at the national constitution center. he is a super presidential historian. you may seem last year discussing his great book on the forgotten presidents, their untold constitutional legacy. is one of the most thoughtful constitutional commentators in the country and i am so thrilled to have him at my side to oversee all of this great constitutional content that we are hosting. so ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please join me in welcoming our great guests, and enjoy the show. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. we really appreciate it. it's a great honor to be here tonight and went to extraordinary people and scholars share with us their expertise and insights into what's cooking. i have to

although leaving harvard law school. but again in keeping with that theme then he gets cancer. >> and schaede netted the toddler at the time. and she moved to new york and harvard would not let her get the degree as a result. they would not let her year at columbia but she did okay >> it worked out okay. [laughter] of the harvard has regretted a great deal. >> battle think she would never let them forget it. they would even protest the fact they have a column she was on the d.c. circuit to say she spent two years there it was the discretionary policy. and then but then she was accepted. [laughter] >> so they moved to new york. what is her career? so you ask who is ruth bader ginsburg? o she has had a lot of doors slammed in her face. it was not until the late '60s and it took her students question been to say it is not okay. that is the enter generational phenomenon. that is the emergence of rations. >> that between law school and when she starts litigating human-rights it is more than a decade where she doesn't do anyth

from overseas, that got him credit for graduating from various schools up to and including harvard law schoolthough no one, trump assures us, at any of those schools can remember obama. this is trump's trump card. it's his ethnic taunt to the worst of the obama haters. his willingness to argue that the president's not really one of us, that he is on the contrary a mysterious interloper who snuck into our country, assumed an identity that wasn't his, and smuggled himself all the way to the american presidency, never once being the person he claims to be. well, this is the original trump sin back again. this is the trumped-up libel, that our front-running candidate is willing to sell whenever he finds an audience, as he did today, willing to swallow it, if only because they hate obama personally. hate his progressive politics. hate most of all his open, tolerant world view. i have from the beginning seen trump as a mixed bag, but this birtherism which he resumed today is the bad he carries with him, refuses to dump and is so willing to sell. and for those who applauded him today, cheered at his

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible] for the harvard law school library i would like to welcome you to read series of book talks i direct though library here and a current colleague in a spiritual sense a student of his thought it isn't just a book talk but it is the republic lost 2.go. [laughter] still in t

he went to northeast high school harvard college and harvard law school. >>> for a third day in a row philadelphia has broken the record fore for lives and today's mark stood since 1881. meteorologist cecily tynan is live at the "action news" big board. cecily, no real sun today but that didn't keep us from setting a new record. >> that's exactly right jim. we've had three days in a row of record warmth. it doesn't feel like the middle of december. it feels like early may. saturday's high 69 degrees. a new record. yesterday 71. a new record and today 70 degrees. that's 25 degrees above normal and records were shattered really across our viewing area. allentown the old record 60. beat it by 8 degrees. reading a record high of 67. wilmington 69. trenton 68. dover reached 72 degrees. atlantic city tying record high of 65 and mount pocono not making snow in the poconos with a record tying high of 58 degrees today. i am tracking some changes. part of the stepdown in temperatures will come with a cold front. double scan live showing it's pushing some showers into our region, some light show

talks a lot about how she worked hard to get good grades, she say graduate of princeton and harvard law school> stepping live outdoors, sky 6 hd showing you a big beautiful bright center city skyline. david murphy has your update from accuweather when "action news" comes right back. kind of medicine that lowers blood sugar. imagine what it would be like to love your numbers. discover once-daily invokana®. it's the #1 prescribed in the newest class of medicines that work with the kidneys to lower a1c. invokana® is used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. it's a once-daily pill that works around the clock. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar allowed back in and sends some sugar out through the process of urination. and while it's not for weight loss, it may help you lose weight. invokana® can cause important side effects, including dehydration, which may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, lightheaded, or weak especially when you stand up. other side effects may includ

he is the director of the food law lab at harvard law school. we could not have done better than zeke and jacob. this conversation will be moderated by michael gerhardt. he is our new visiting scholar here at the national constitution center. he is a superb presidential scholar. he is one of the most thoughtful constitutional commentators in the country, and i am so thrilled to have him at my side to oversee all of this great constitutional content that we are hosting here. so ladies and gentlemen, without further a do, please join me in welcoming our great guests, and enjoy the show. [applause] michael: thank you all for coming. it is a great honor to be here tonight and to have two extraordinary scholar share their expertise and i have to confess to the outside we will be able to talk about the quality of food and particularly the reasons why the government regulates food and some of the major issues arising right now with respect to food regulation, so i want to jump right to jacob and have him talk to us about why the federal government is i

we meet robert anderson, visiting professor at harvard law school. and from the "native report" archives, we take a look back at a story about the federal recognition process. we also learned something new about indian country and hear from our elders on this native report. announcer: production for "native report" is made possible by grants from the shakopee mdewakanton sioux community and the blandin foundation. [music playing]

he grew up on his family's cattle farm, graduated from hartnell high school harvard and the harvard lawschool. after his federal clerkship in pratt -- practicing private practice he left the law because the terrorist attacks on a country that he served 55 years of active-duty united states army in the infantry. he served in iraq with the hundred and first airborne and afghanistan with provincial construction team. between his two combat tours he served the old guard at arlington national cemetery. his military decorations include the bronze star medal, come come.infantry badge. between the army and the senate he worked for mckinsey company and served one term in the united states house of representatives and he and his bride and i have a 7-month-old newborn named gabrielle. i am particularly drawn to a series of speeches and lectures and articles that the senator has written and i would commend them to your attention. all our national security including one in foreign affairs on proxy wars at the interfaith prayer breakfast where he gave a wonderful speech and "politico". he wrote a pie

immigrated in 1983 and is harvard law school graduate. >> the eagles see-saw season continues, another keeps their playoff hopes alive and the birds also spoiled mccoy's homecoming in the process. now, before the game, shady showed his love for philly. he kissed the eagle at mid field and he gave an owner jeff lure a hug. but, still no warm feelings for chip kelly. after the game the eagles held on for the win picking up tame or, birds win this 123-20. players say, they didn't let the shady show get to them. >> i think been in the league long time, especially being in philly for awhile, you realize the media is pretty strong, stuff circulating at all times. i don't think anybody really thought too much about it. i mean, you study lesean, you know he is a great back. >> mccoy not happy after the game. ran off the field without shaking anyone's hands and caught throwing his helmet on the way into the lockerroom before leaving without talking to reporters there. is the throw. chip kelly spoke this morning on our sister station 94wip and said his focus was on the game not shady. >> we're j

that particular incident probably made her a more... even attractive to, uh, harvard law school, where she became the first african-american woman who was tenured at the law school. and it also, i think, had something to do, in the long run, with me getting to the kennedy school. so it wound up being serendipitous. >> hinojosa: so... but i guess, you know, again, as high-profile african-american academics, um... you know, and sure, now we have a president who is african american, but... but we are far from being that advanced, inclusive country that i guess many of us still imagine that we are. i mean, you are highly critical of the state of things in the united states of america, not only in terms of media and access to media, but in terms of race relations, too. >> yes, well, there's good reason to be so, and i think, also, every nation needs its critics. if everyone were to sing to the choir, that would not be democracy and there would be no push for any kind of improvement. you can't be satisfied with mediocrity or a compromise of core values. in terms of opportunities for meaningf

she is a lecturer at harvard law school. and cyrus, the district attorney for new york county. top district attorney in manhattan. two of our prosecutors, both are prosecutors actually come to us with an interesting history. both, i believe, were defenders at one point. briefly, for adam. ask, what treat to the dark side? all-star with you, adam. >> a nice easy one to start off with. i wanted to be a defender for all the reasons that we are sitting here today talking about. i knew that joe was not working. i knew the people in their looked a lot like me. i thought that the way that i was going to help that situation was becoming defender. i learned two things. while having those chances and working for a defense attorney author law school and being a certified defender in law school as a student. one, two things were that, you have the least amount of power in the courtroom and the prosecutor has the most. in sit of asking for things all the time i wanted to be able to help people with things. that was the one thing i learned. was not really i fixing any of the ales that brough

me.ver my >> harvey: unfortunately, we only hire from harvard, and you, not only did not go to harvard law schoolhaven't even gone to any law school. >> mike: what if i told you that i consume knowledge like no one you've ever met, and i've actually passed the bar. >> harvey: i'd say you're full of crap. >> mike: that's a barbri legal handbook right there, right? open it up. read me something. anything. >> harvey: civil liability associated with agency is based on several factors including-- >> mike: including the dev of the agent from his path, the reasonable inference of agency on behalf of the plaintiff, and the nature of the damages themselves. >> harvey: how did yiationw that? >> mike: i learned it...when i studied...for the bar. >> shad: what aspect of his character do you connect withouo most? >> patrick: i think his, uh--his passion and his desire for--for family and for community. uh, mike is a character who, um--who lost his family, uh, early on and, uh--and he doesn't really have many people in his life, and so going to the office and going to work, they become his family. know that's

that was thurgood marshall who graduated number one harvard university law school. so marshall was the right man, in the right moment, at the right time in this country's history. >> what was the final vote?, any democrats voted for and against, republicans won against? >> republicans won against? >> the final vote was 69-11. that seems wide but it is not. if the southerners had a stop, the white house at 60 votes or less than they could have filibustered the nomination and marshall, or the white house could not have withstood a filibuster. so in reality, the white house got its nomination through with only nine votes to spare. on the second of the hearing president johnson was so nervous because he thought it would be over with on the first day. like all of the previous hearings had been. but president johnson was so nervous he summoned william coleman, he was a celebrated african-american attorney from philadelphia. he told william coleman secretly, if my man thurgood marshall doesn't make it, then, then i'm going to nominate you for the supreme court because i am

for the harvard law school library i would like to welcome you to read series of book talks i direct though library here and a current colleague in a spiritual sense a student of his thought it isn't just a book talk but it is the republic lost 2.go. [laughter] still in the desert but in between there was a very intriguing thing that happened. my colleague ran for president of the united states of america. [applause] >> between this group and the listeners of c-span you may have the majority of americans already on board. anything you say or do will be broadcast. but it is amazing that you ran for president. so the way to think what you thinking but how did you come to the place that says it being i will run for president? >> you are responsible for that decision. [laughter] what i laid out to jonathan was we're at a point in the ark of the history of our democracy where we have to recognize a fundamental flaw has emerged. i talked about it called congress. it is a failed institution. that has crippled and corrupted no way in which we did night representation through gerrymandering a

and from there i went to city college and harvard law school. i majored in sociology. i was alwaysed in crime prevention. maybe that related to my early recollections in a highly dense crime area, hell's kitchen, if you looked at a map of crimes in the united states it was black, because there were more crimes committed there than any place else, and that may have stimulated my interest in crime prevention. because there but for the grace of might have gone i. >> were of an only child? >> no, i had an older sister who was 18 months older than i. >> and did you both live with this aunt. >> yes, when the parents were divorced they had to find their on way, and we all lived happily ever after. my mother and father were related, second cousins who were assigned to marriage at birth but didn't work out. but subsequent marriages worked out well and we became good friends >> what made you go to law school? >> i always wanted to be a lawy

she followed bonnie to harvard and when he went to practice law she left harvard law school and followed him to columbia. when her high school classmates from flatbush, many of whom were in that class at columbia law school found out that that kiki bader, that was was coming to their law school they heaved a collective sigh. they knew that each one of their class ranks would now go down by one. [laughter] and, they did. she graduated first in her class at columbia. her teachers tried to get a supreme court -- she's one of the smartest person who ever sat there. there is not a supreme court justice who would take woman at his chambers know what the court of appeals, take her into their chambers. no women, too wound up as a district court clerk and that she ultimately started her real career as a professor at rutgers. her great point came when some of her women students came to her and asked her to check course on women in the law. she did a typical ginsburg things she went to the library and thought she should look things up and she found things about treating women badly and started taki

she is a lecturer at harvard law school. and cyrus, the district attorney for new york county.he top district attorney in manhattan. two of our prosecutors, both are prosecutors actually come to us with an interesting history. both, i believe, were defenders at one point. briefly, for adam. ask, what treat to the dark side? all-star with you, adam. >> a nice easy one to start off with. i wanted to be a defender for all the reasons that we are sitting here today talking about. i knew that joe was not working. i knew the people in their looked a lot like me. i thought that the way that i was going to help that situation was becoming defender. i learned two things. while having those chances and working for a defense attorney author law school and being a certified defender in law school as a student. one, two things were that, you have the least amount of power in the courtroom and the prosecutor has the most. in sit of asking for things all the time i wanted to be able to help people with things. that was the one thing i learned. was not really i fixing any of the ales that brou

that colby became a big man on campus at williams college, but the phi beta kappa keep an harvard law school open to them if you wanted it. colby instead chose journalism. he hope to publish a newspaper one day. he signed on with the united press, and by 1935 he became one of the news agency's correspondent in berlin or adolf hitler was widely popular. his prized assignment came in september 1936 when he covered the annual nazi party congress in nuremberg. after the rally hitler invited helms at a half dozen other foreign correspondents to a lunch at nuremberg castle. helms was surprised to unremarkable the future looked to him. his eyes, edwin claimed, were hypnotic, were actually a dull slate blue pro-consumer from his head in helms that they were ordinary. his pace the white face was tensed slightly pink, gold filled his teeth, and when he talked to reporters his knees rocked back and forth, which helms thought was odd. but it was clear to helms after his lunch and conversation with hitler that the dictator was intent on going to war. after pearl harbor, helms joined the navy i was perfec

then she went to the harvard law school and became an environmental lawyer and now is the waldorf teachers he has an -- we are still very friendly. c-span: did you actually get thrown out of uc berkeley? >> guest: yeah. c-span: what happened then? >> guest: i became unemployed and in some ways unemployable which i remain. actually i think it was rather lucky because i didn't have a career which meant that when i happened to turn up in silicon valley or san francisco in 1995 because my ex-wife would move from cambridge to san francisco i really didn't have much. i was sort of a part-time music journalist, part-time this, part-time that. in reality it was doing very little trying to be a journalist and do different things. i was very lucky to turn up in san francisco in 1995. i have the eclectic skills, the ability to talk and sell and think and write which allowed me to be that first wave of internet entrepreneurs. it was a great time to be in san francisco. they were there people like me sort of layabouts without any clear skills who try their hand in some of them succeeded. and still very

back home he game a big man on campus at williams college with the identify beta kappa key and harvard law school open to him. coalbin stead chose journalism. he hoped to publish a newspaper one day. he signed on with the united press, and by 1935, he became one of the news agency's correspondents in berlin, where adolph hitler was wildly popular. his prize assignment came in september 1936 when he covered the annual nazi party congress in nuremberg. after the rally hitler invited helm and half dozen other foreign correspondents to a lunch at nuremberg castle. helms was surprised how unremarkable their furor looked to him. his eyes, everyone claimed were hypnotic. were actually a dull slate blue, protruding somewhat from his head, and helm thought they were quite ordinary. his pasty white face was tinged slightly pink, gold filled his teeth, and when he talked to the reporters his knees rocked back and forth, which he naught was outside. ... in his way to to talking to talking to a pittsburgh steel plant and others congress documents on the types of goods manufactured. now, two weeks wasn't enoug

with us on the phone is rick, visiting expert on sports business at harvard law school. istmas. >> merry christmas. happy new year. everybody go shopping, okay? let's make this quick. >> it's been said that new york state law sets some kind of precedent for state ag's around the country. is this going to snowball? >> it's snowballing now, by the way. the fantasy sports industry expanding 2006 unlawful internet gambling act changed the game, defining fantasy sports as a game of skill outlawing things like poker, but you could play for fantasy and financial gain. yet, illinois, massachusetts is looking at it. new york. fantasy is not going away, and so depending on state law, what needs to happen in the future, is the traditional way of playing social season-long fantasy that needs to evolve and daily fantasy may evolve as well. people have short attention spans. they live on their mobile phones, or social groups associated with. the game changers, the newer companies need to find ways to play into the future user. originally you need games prayed in groups or leagues. that

professor ron sullivan, harvard law school, is the next featured speaker. but as i will mention, this program, professor sullivan's flights got mixed up, connections and things like that. he will be here, if possible after lunch. so we will probably be shifting some of the panels and speakers up a bit. and we will get to him. but professor sullivan is a leading theorist in aereas of trial practice, legal acts ethics, and race theory. he is the leader of the harvard trial advocacy workshop. without meaning to slight anyone, but running out of time i record you to look at everyone's bios on the website. i will add just a brief mention to some of the -- certain not all of the -- regionall authorities in medicine. you will also hear from the resident of the american college of physicians. the president for the american academy of physicians. they are helping to lead to renewed effort of the medical community in seeking to curb gun violence and try to get something done about that. i speak to those two organizations in particular, we are fortunate to have their

he graduated with honors from princeton university and high honors from harvard law school and work for chief justice william rehnquist on the u.s. supreme court. please join me in welcoming senator cruz. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you ever one for coming out this morning. it's great to be with so many good friends at heritage. heritage is such a jewel in this country such a font of ideas and creative thinking and energy, energy that i believe will change the direction of this country. it's also particularly fitting that we are here today and in just a few months we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of ronald reagan's most important speeches , a speech that he gave right here at this institution. initiating an endowment that led to so much good in reagan's times and our own. at that speech reagan discussed the present challenges including the threat of terrorist and in particular he talked about the dash that the u.s. air force had just sent colonel gadhafi and libya encouraging him to give up terrorism. the corrective came in the form of a military check on

randy: a former harvard law school librarian was arrested in colorado charged with attempting to sexually assault an underage girl. the librarian, who used to work at the islamic law center, was caught in a sting operation. police say yahya melhem sent sexually graphic messages to an undercover officer posing as an underage girl. he was driving to meet the officer. emily: a new report says the "t" should have foreseen massive problems with the green line consultants hired to investigate the ballooning cost say the "t" should have known early on that its first estimate of $2 billion was too low. they say the new estimate of $3 billion may also fall short. not assigning enough personnel to the project which extends the line into somerville and medford. randy: this morning we'll show you the challenge facing a gold star mom used to supporting others. emily: the help she's now changes to the boston public library. the chairman just selected. randy: and ahead in news to go, the city of boston wants you to snap a selfie. the idea looking at the city's future. to challenge yourself, at xfinity.

professor ron sullivan of harvard law school is the next featured speaker, although as i will mention, this program -- professor sullivan's flights got mixed up. he will be here. it is possible after lunch. so we will be shifting some of the panels and speakers up a bit, and we will get to him. but professor sullivan is a leading theorist and criminal law, criminal procedure, trial techniques, trial practice, legal ethics, and race theory. he is the faculty director of the harvard criminal justice institute and the harvard trial advocacy workshop. without meaning to slight anyone, but running out of time, i encourage you to look at everyone's bios on the website. i will add just a brief mention to some of the regional authorities and public health and medicine. youwill also hear from president of the american college of physicians, the president of the american academy of family physicians, and i might mention these groups in particular are helping lead the effort, the renewed effort of the medical community in seeking to curb gun violence and try to get something done about that. i w

professor ron sullivan, harvard law school, is the next featured speaker. but as i will mention, this program, professor sullivan's flights got mixed up, connections and things like that. he will be here, if possible, after lunch. so we will probably be shifting some of the panels and speakers up a bit. and we will get to him. but professor sullivan is a leading theorist in areas of trial practice, legal acts ethics, and race theory. he is the leader of the harvard trial advocacy workshop. without meaning to slight anyone, but running out of time, i record you to look at everyone's bios on the website. i will add just a brief mention to some of the -- certain not all of the -- regional authorities in medicine. you will also hear from the resident of the american college of physicians. americandent for the academy of physicians. they are helping to lead to renewed effort of the medical community in seeking to curb gun violence and try to get something done about that. i speak to those two organizations in particular, we are fortunate to have their presence h

he grew up on his family's , he graduated from darnell high school and harvard law school. practicelerkship and -- private she served nearly five years on active duty in the united states army as an infantry officer. he served in iraq and afghanistan with a provincial reconstruction team. he served with the old guard at the arlington national cemetery. as a military decorations include the bronze star medal, combat infantry -- for mckenzie company and served for the united states of representatives and has a seventh month old newborn named gabrielle. i am particularly drawn to a series of lectures that the onator has written, all national security, including foreign affairs on proxy wars. , heave a wonderful speech wrote a piece called "what i learned at war." and my favorite is the barbara k memorial lecture at the national lawyers convention. 2006 and 2007 when i had the pleasure of serving in the 400 administration, we had something detainees at -- today we have none in iraq and afghanistan and differentfrom seven countries. as a recall, president bush said he wanted to

that was thurgood marshall who graduated number one at harvard university law school. marshall was the right man, in the right moment, at the the right time, in this country's history. >> host: what was the final vote? , and he democrats of vote for and against the republicans warn against? >> guest: the final vote was 69 - 11 which seems wide but it is really not. if the southerners had to stop the white house at 60 votes or less than they could have filibustered the nomination and marshall or the white house could not have withstood a filibuster. in reality, the white house got its nomination through with only nine votes to spare. on the second day of the hearing, president johnson was so nervous because he thought it would be over with on the first day like all of the previous hearings had been. president johnson was so nervous he summoned william coleman who is a celebrated african-american attorney from philadelphia, he told william secretly, if my man thurgood marshall does not make it then i am going going to nominate you for the supreme court. i am hell-bent on

he graduated with honors from princeton university and high honors from harvard law school and work forhief justice william rehnquist on the u.s. supreme court. please join me in welcoming senator cruz. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you ever one for coming out this morning. it's great to be with so many good friends at heritage. heritage is such a jewel in this country such a font of ideas and creative thinking and energy, energy that i believe will change the direction of this country. it's also particularly fitting that we are here today and in just a few months we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of ronald reagan's most important speeches , a speech that he gave right here at this institution. initiating an endowment that led to so much good in reagan's times and our own. at that speech reagan discussed the present challenges including the threat of terrorist and in particular he talked about the dash that the u.s. air force had just sent colonel gadhafi and libya encouraging him to give up terrorism. the corrective came in the form of a military check