. >> to my immediate left is just as alayna kagan. >> 87. >> 87, seems like yesterday. all of our panelists this evening clerk for one judge or another in the d.c. circuit. >> it is a good court. >> it was a great court. it was in the white house counsel's office and the clinton administration and policy council as deputy director. she settled at harvard not long after that and became the dean. became associate justice of the supreme court. .udge paul engle meyer you came on the court in 2011 in the southern district. harvardto harvard and for law school as well. he had private practice before going on the bench. professor randall kennedy. he was a road scholar, a graduate of yale law school. he clerked for judge scully right on the d.c. circuit. he joined in 1984 and has been a very productive and electric author of books. remarkably, while other colleagues write articles, he is writing books. is the most grandiose number of the american academy of arts and sciences and the american association of philosophical ideas. we have four marshall clark's including myself. all

you have spent time, you cochlear with justice alayna kagan. what did you make of the events today? >> it was a hot bench. i agree with your observation that justice kennedy was going to vote to uphold the ban and possibly even a couple more, might be as much a 7-to but the real sort of 900 pound gorilla in the room, former comments of the pres. while he was campaigning gave the government attorney some trouble but with the attorney said his even if in his heart of hearts donald trump was motivated by animus against muslims you should still uphold the ban out of deference to the executive and my best guess is that principle is going to prevail. >> whether there is religious discrimination a foot in putting together this been critics say it is aimed at muslims and the current ban has north korea and venezuela, not majority muslim nations. this is what justice alito had to say, nice to have same-day video. here is his take on whether this is a muslim man. >> an observer reading this proclamation without taking into account statements think this was a muslim been? i think there are 50

. >> to my immediate left is just as alayna kagan.