along with chief justice ren quist and justice scalia and judge bourque and judge silverman and many others in the 1970s and 80s, general meese laid the ground work for a rule of law as a law of rules. for the notion of judges as umpires and not as policy makers. for the notion as he put rule of what you. for the notion as he put it in 1985, the judges should not be roaming at large in the constitutional forest. a few months ago, i told john malcolm, i would talk about the separation of powers. you would hear me often saying to my clerks, every case is a separation of powers case. the bread and butter of our docket on the d.c. circuit is interpretation of statutes. usually deciding when an agency exceeded its statutory limits. that balance constitutes one of the most critical separation of law. if you sat in our courtroom for a week or two and listened to case after case after case. and i do not advise that for anyone who wants to remain sane, if you did that, you would hear judge after judge from across the spectrum. ask council about the precise wording of the statute or regulation

udge robert bourque, judge ray randolph. judge alice, judge janice rogers rown and judge carlos bea. as our guests this evening joining this distinguished group of judges and professors, is of course the honorable brett cavanagh. as you all know, he is a judge of the united states court of acourt of appeals for the districtor colombia circuit appointed by george w. bush and took office on may 30, 2006. before his appointment to the court, he served for more than five years in a white house in various capacities. he began as an associate council and was assistant to the president and staff secretary up until the time later on of his appointment. during his career, the judge has been a partner in private practice with the firm of kirkland and ellis in washington, d.c.. he has been an attorney in the office of the solicitor general of the united states and clerked for a number of distinguished judges, justice kennedy of the judge to have ninth circuit and the judge walter stapleton of the third circuit. he is a graduate of yale

of a house on fire east of glen he will general a little further north, deputies tell us homes are bourque crest ridge place. illustrated by sky ridge 7. showing the streets where the smoke is and fires are burning and mandatory evacuations have been ordered. >> we have live team coverage. we want to tell you the sons of an elderly couple who died spent part of day going through the ruins of their parents' hole. >> mike and charles tried to make sense of what happened. their mom and dad died. they were 100 and 98 years old respectively. they've been married 75 years. >> everything, the accumulation of a lifetime. fire doesn't care. >> wow! >> charles told us at least his parents' deaths were quick and they died together. he says that's what they would have wanted. >>> the sonoma county sheriff's office announced it has located 57 of the 240 people missing and say communication breakdowns are hampering their efforts. the sheriff's deputies are urging people to call if someone is missing and also if someone is found so they can take them off the list. the biggest problem is communication. >>

they talked about going back to the 80s with the bourque hearings, which some people say this is theenesis of what's happened. people say we have to talk to each other to get things done or the party's going to get blown up. if they're not able to talk to each other, that's going to be a problem. if the republican party which is the ruling coalition right now, i think they can get democrats to come together on some of these issues, but they've got to paint a picture of why people's lives are going to get better. but democrats have to come on board and that's what republicans have not been able to do yet. >> governor kasich talked a little bit about health care and that impact. let's look at that and then again we'll chat about it. >> why did democrats go out of the window on health care? well, because if you don't stand behind obamacare, bernie and the boys will come and get you. and if you're a republican and you try to cross the base of the republican party, they come get you in a primary. see, the whole system is po polaizing and a manifestation of what happens over time. >> he di

and then paul vinva ch, joe, jim, steve robinson, greg deanglo, tom bourque, richard berger, jeremy delrimple, allison, will morris, sue towson, well , kelsey and our i, katherine and jake and max. quite a team that have been doing a lot of work both daytime and night and while the senate has been out of session. so i'd also like to offer a special thank you, though, to eric euland who previously served as my staff director and he's been nominated for a post in the administration. he's still kind of waiting for his vote here which we're delaying a lot, not on his but apparently on all of them. eric has played an important role in this committee and throughout his time in the senate. two years ago eric was instrumental in helping congress approved its first balanced budget since 2001 which represented an important step toward putting our country on not just another course but a better course. he's careful, precise, dogged in his work. he has a tremendous history of the senate and particularly the budget process. i especially appreciate his understanding of the complex senate rules and the prec

did it start with bourque's nomination, a guy who's very controversial on college campuses, charles murraybout the decline of white culture in america. and which basically predicted the rise of somebody like donald trump. he puts the date at november 22nd, 1963, a date that mike references, maybe -- maybe we've been too short sided. maybe the world we knew and order that we knew started that thread started being polled on january 22nd 1963 and maybe it has been one continual sort of cultural decline since then. >> you know, joe, that's a very interesting thought. i think that day when president kennedy was shot was the day that america lost its innocence. and i'm not sure we have ever really regained everything. we thought of the presidency, we thought of our presidents as being invincible and the office made demand, they grew larger and then this absolute loser came along and killed the president of the united states. someone who had never accomplished anything. and i think that shattered a lot of people's feelings and i'll tell you something else, that was the first time that americans t