>> rbg! >> rbg! >> rbg! ms. totenberg: thank you all for coming. i think justice ginsburg and i have never, ever, appeared before an audience this large before. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i understand that normally this is, i guess, recently the worldwide wrestling entertainment -- [laughter] we are not going to wrestle each other. [laughter] we are going to try to entertain you a bit and inform you. you have heard president clinton describing why he picked justice ginsburg, but i think i should start this interview asking you about that interview. so let me set the stage. the year is 1993, the new president is flirting with all manner of potential supreme court nominations, and the names keep getting leaked to the likes of me. [laughter] and behind the scenes, martin the inimitable martin ginsberg is doing everything in his power to promote his tiny but officious wife. and finally, you get a call from the white house counsel, and it is a call that you had long hoped for, but you are in something of a fashion dilemma. tell us about how you go

so -- [cheers and applause] the notorious rbg! [cheers and applause] >> please be seated. [applause] >> and i have to tell you before i leave the stage, i want to shake her hand. [cheers and applause] >> well, i want to give her a hug, but that would be very unprofessional. so this is quite an amazing group, and i'm very admiring of all the people who have been on line for so many hours and waiting to see the justice. there's a lot to see even though she's a pretty little person. [laughter] so how about jlo? what was -- how did that happen? >> i was called about a month or so ago by jennifer lopez, and she said she would like to meet me and introduce her fiance e, alex rodriguez. [laughter] so they came to chambers, and we had a very nice visit. she mostly wanted to ask if i had any secret about a happy marriage. but now a-rod is traveling with her to concerts all over the world. [laughter] >> so what was your secret to a happy marriage? did you pass on your mother-in-law's secrets? [laughter] >> on the day i was married, my mother-in-law -- i was married at her home. she

rbg people, thank you again, carmen. [applause.] >> debbie rafael on the director of the department of environment and hello bautista is here as well. our next speaker is a woman leaving public service to retire not before she become the first ever woman sheriff to serve. vicky. (applause). >> thank you, carmen. thank you, senator, and every other person up on the stage who spoke today. malia was the first person who called to say will you run for sheriff? i said i don't know i will get back to you. you know what happens, i did. in 2016, i became the first female elected sheriff in the history of san francisco. there were 134 sheriffs before me. all of them were men, obviously. how did this happen? the first 70 years in sheriff's department women weren't allowed the right to vote. in 1975 they began accepting women as deputy that was like the rank of what the men were offered. i know. i was a member of that first recruiting list. i think of jeanine nicholson who was probably one of the first women in the san francisco fi

ginurg is revealing how she got her nickname the notorious rbg. >> she said it all started when a newersity law student posted one of her dissents online. >> she took the summary of my dissent that i read from the bench and put it on this and called it the notorious rbg after the famous rapper, the notorious b.i.g. because she knew the two of us had one thing in common. what was it? we were both born and bred in brooklyn, new york. >> ginsburg accepted an award for her fight for abortion rights and gender equality. >>> pg&e reveals its plan to ge. some people are not happy about this. >>> the new lawsuit the raiders face. >> the countdown to apple's big in the human brain, billions of nefor people with parkinson's, some neurons change their tune, causing uncontrollable tremors. now, abbott technology can target those exact neurons. restoring control and harmony, once thought to belost forever. the most personal technology is technology with the power to change your life. >>> right now at 6:30 pg&e reveals its plan to dig itself out of bankruptcy and that is sparking some outrage among

totenberg: for those of you ", or thenot seen "rbg sex,", "on the basis of i recommend both. provide a good view of you in your career for becoming judge and later supreme court justice had what used to strike me when arguments, was how you had tailored your arguments. you had an all-male supreme court, and you tailored your gender discrimination cases, the arguments in those cases, to appeal to different justices in different ways. and you often had male plaintiffs. and one of those male plaintiffs was stephen wiesenthal, whose died in childbirth, and he was denied social security benefits for his remaining child who survived, even though his wife was the principal breadwinner. won, but there are basically three arguments that succeeded. i want you to talk about how each group of justices saw it. justice ginsburg: first, let me tell the audience how stephen wiesenthal came to my attention. he had written a letter to the paper in his local edison, new jersey, and he said, i have been hearing a lot these days about women's lib. let me tell you my story. died of an embolism jus

i don't know if you guys have seen it, "rbg. >> jimmy: oh yeah, it's good "rbg." >> and it was fascinatingfor so many years in our country, for women, for minorities, for the underprivileged. and she also had this amazing marriage to marty -- >> jimmy: yeah >> who was a tax attorney. i mean -- i'm telling you the whole thing. [ light laughter ] but basically -- >> jimmy: you should watch the documentary. >> when i went on tour, and we were in washington, i was like, "i'd love to meet her. alex is like, "we should see if we can meet her. and i invited her to the concert. and she was like, "it's a little bit late for me." [ laughter ] i was like, "okay. >> jimmy: she's like, "i'm not doing the lap dance part okay?" [ talking over each other [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm not doing that part >> i was like, "is it your birthday?" so we -- she goes, "come to my chambers let's have a visit let's have a little time together." and we sat there and we talked. and -- >> jimmy: you asked her for marriage advice? >> i did you know, he told her the story that we got engaged. and that's how we, you know --

. >> know, there's a reason she's known as the notorious rbg.iation treatments for pancreatic cancer. assured everyone she's on the mend and will be ready for next supreme court session in october. >>> new details on enhanced b.a.r.t. station signs set to be unveiled today. they've been delayed. software has not been released yet. will let riders know if train is canceled and two or three-door cars. not sure when will go live. >>> b.a.r.t. trains are not running between orinda and walnut creek stations. performing maker upgrades. also closed two lanes of highway 94, so far not impacted traffic. lasting to 7:00 tuesday morning. labor day trains are on a modified schedule. 8:00, longer trains. >>> still ahead on abc7 news at 11:00, there's a burro serial killer in the southern california desert. how community is rallying to make sur alright, so this is how you are gonna say:wn. you'll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet! and you even get this. mike, you're on balloons. sarah, you're gonna high five everybody. ben, you're gonna

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she called it the notorious rbg because she had in mind a well known rapper, the notorious b.i.g.nd people ask me what in the world do you have in common with the notorious b.i.g.? [laughter] i said it's evident. [laughter]la by the way, when you and justice o'connor were on the court, even at the end of her tenure, some very seasoned supreme court advocates, not newbies but seasoned people kept confusing you and they would call you justice o'connor and her justice ginsburg and excuse me that you do not lookli anything alike. her accent was different, everything. why? >> for 12 years, sandra day o'connor was the lone woman on the supreme court. and, advocates were accustomed to their being a woman on the court. her name was sandra day o'connor. so, they heard a woman's voice, it have t had to be justice o'c. [laughter] she would sometimes say i am justice o'connor, she is justice ginsburg. dhat happened to not just occasional lawyers that showed up, but even the solicitor general. he called me justice o'connor and realized the mistake that he had made. he said he wished that there

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[laughter] >> hillary got me a book, rbg workout, and she said i bet you can't do it, i said yeah, i can, 73, i can do this, i had to work out on my weight machine and do other stuff for two months before i could complete her workout. [laughter] >> saturday night live delivering her ginsburg and you can see her quote on t-shirts, coat bags, in coffee mugs, the world over. you could become resentful of such a person but you're not. [laughter] >> we like her because she seems to totally on the level, in a world hungry for people who aren't trying to con you, who -- [cheers and applause] >> spent a lifetime trying to give other people from the get-go the opportunities she spent her early life struggling reach and one of the law review articles she wrote, the greatest figures of american judiciary have been independent thinking individuals with open but not empty minds. individuals willing to listen and learn, they have exhibited a readiness to examine their own promises liberal or conservative as thoroughly as those of others she's lived her life doing that and somehow she has found the

. >> are rowan catea -rbgs. >> i live on garry close to vanesse. i hope i will be less old than the cable car that was mentioned. but that leads me to what indianapolis said this week. some of you may have heard that a new brt line opened up in indianapolis today. it has 23 stops, more than ten miles long, which is more than n both brt projects combine. it's done. it's operational and running. we have concrete centre islands. new buses where the lug nuts don't stick out and bits of sixtsingle track and one lane we buses go both ways. indianapolis is putting us to shame. we're work on brts before, but we've also been work on v ar are spawvanesse brt. why can't we do this for the next project. let's learn some lessons from the folks in indianapolis who is clearly figured out how to do something we haven't figured out yet. >> any further speaker speaker c comment? >> none who have turned in a speaker card. >> i will close public comment on item 9. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> if i may, are mcguire, i suspect maybe there's an answer as to why there aren

. >>> rbg gets personal. the supreme court justice delivering an update on her health. >> well, first, this audience can see that i am alive. >> plus, her words of wisdom to jlo who asked for marriage advice. >>> and a lesson in sportsmanship. >> there it is! >> naomi osaka defeating 15-year-old phenom coco gauff. consoling her opponent just minutes after the match. the tennis champ's class move on center court. >> absolutely dominant. >>> and good sunday morning, >>> and good sunday morning, everybody. we have a lot to cover this morning. hurricane dorian packing 150-mile-per-hour wi landfall in the bahamas, where it's expected to have a potentially devastating impact. >> after having its way with the bahamas dorian will lumber toward the east coast of the u.s., from florida to the carolinas they're making preparations. major airports suspending operations. utility trucks being pre-positioned. people lining up to fill sandbags. we'll have team coverage including the track of the storm coming up. >>> but we s

jlo tweeting out that individual k video and saying it was an honor to meet rbg.s a really good one. i appreciate that a lot. >> what about you? >> i say laugh as much as you possibly can. never stop laughing. >> laughter would be mine too. if you don't cry, you got to laugh. >>> finally a crossover that is straight out of our wildest dreams. keith urban performing a gorgeous cover of taylor swift's new song, "lover." take a listen. ♪ >> keith sharing that video on instagram and writing, every now and then you hear a song you love and wish you'd written. a huge thanks to my band. we didn't get to rehearse so this is fully winging it. i sound the same way when i wing it. and taylor herself couldn't calm down sharing it on her own instagram story writing, keith urban covering "lover" flawlessly. i am screaming this is so beautiful. i love a cover. >> i do too. >> i love when people swap music and it's beautiful to hear it. >> it would be great to see them together. >> right here on "gma." i'm all for it. >> would they do it? >> come to "gma." >> we'd love to have yo

jennifer lopez seeking relationship from rbg asking what's the secret to a happy marriage.g passing along the advie that she received from her mother-in-law, it happens sometimes to be a little death. >> that's not bad advice. >> they're in the public spotlight, a lot of attention. if she can help them, yeah. >> be a little death. >> good for them. happiness for everyone. >>> joe biden using a war veteran in his latest ad campaign to get votes. watch. >> vote for people who vote for veterans. in the situation we're in right now, we need a man like joe biden. >> well, as the "washington post" calls out biden for sharing a moving but untrue military story. we'll bring that to you next. . >>> veterans, you need to check out people's credentials, you need to check out their voting records. vote for people who vote for veterans. veterans, you know, especially wounded veterans should be able to get health care and the best health care. in the situation we're in right now. we need a man like joe biden. i think he can fix our problems. >> joe biden releasing a new campaign ad featu

listed people she most admired and in addition to her family members, she proudly said, and i quote, "rbg." [applause] a few months ago, i heard a 10-year-old anna lee caseberry deliver a personal and inspiring speech. in her remarks, she listed people she most admired and in addition to her family members, she proudly said, and i quote, "rbg." [applause] this evening, she is here, sitting with us. as a salute to the many young people who are also inspired by justice ginsburg. anna lee, we are glad to have you here. again, thank you all for joining us, and thank you for making all this possible. [applause] for making all this possible. [applause] >> good evening. i am also thrilled to be here with all of you at our largest compuris distinguished lecture ever [applause] we knew that justice ginsburg would draw a large crowd. larger than the centers great hall could hold. we were right. we have enough people here tonight to fill 40 great halls. [applause] as a young white house staffer, i had the honor of being in the rose garden on a very sunny day in june 1993. when president clinton anno