please join me in welcoming our joseph story, distinguished l lecturer, the honorable brett cavanaugh. [ applause ] >> thank you for the kind introduction. i'm honored to be here to deliver the joseph story lecture. his story had a profound effect on the united states. and i'm proud to deliver a lecture in his name. when i look at the distinguished list of past speakers, justice kennedy, justice thomas, ray randolph, my former colleague judge janice rogers brown who i miss greatly. i will admit i've not been a regular attendee because every year it seems to fall on the same night as basketball tryouts for the cyo girl's basketball team i coach in d.c. this your, i finally pulled rank as seniority and i moved the team's tryouts a night. tonight i'm with you. last night, i was trying with limited success to get 47 fifth and sixth grade girls to listen to me. i will try not to use my coach voice with you tonight. the tryouts were good. we're going to have a good team. you're probably not here to hear about that. coaching my daughters in the fifth and sixth team girl's basketball team has

then district of columbia appeals court judge brett cavanaugh on the separation of powers in the u.s. government. later, current and former government officials from canada and mexico discuss nafta negotiations and possible changes to the three-way trade agreement. >>> american history tv is in primetime this week here on c-span3. tonight, women's history, including a talk on the 17th sentry puritan views on women. american history primetime begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and tonight on c-span, former vice president joe biden and ohio governor john case i go on how to deal with partisanship in the trump era. here's a portion where mr. biden described conversation with a prime minister in europe with trump. >> i recently spoke to a prime minister in europe. he wanted to see me. i thought it was a courtesy call. i thought it was going to last ten minutes. it lasted two and a half hours. at one point, the prime minister said did you see what he did. we were sitting as close at a conference table. he said he took the president of montenegro and stuck his chest out. and all i could think abo

rick grant, brett cavanaugh was a bush appointee in 2006 to the d.c. circuit court. kevin newsom who president trump appointed this week to atlanta's court of appeal and patrick wyrick who was an appointee to oklahoma. you're saying why is he adding to the list if there's no vacancy? the white house says after thanksgiving maybe justice kennedy could retire. now the list of nominees to replace the next nominee is up to 25 with these latest additions to the list. neil? >> neil: the president had to know he would be asked that question and people would raise their eyebrows given all the women that came out and questioned him, that it would look weird, him pointing fingers at al franken. >> right. you know, his reaction to roy moore was subdued. he didn't come out and proactively talk about roy moore. he waited until he was asked about it in a gaggle by reporters aboard air force one. but you know, barely hours after the franken stuff hit he's tweeting about it. there's a disconnect there. but the president has denied all of the allegations against him according to the