anthony kennedy presided over the murder trial of hamlet, the prince of denmark.as a mock trial held yesterday at the university of southern california. in the shakespeare play, particular, hamlet fatally stabbed the king's advisor. they determined whether hamlet suffered from a mental diseases. jurors deliberated 20 minutes and ended in a hung jury with two finding him sane and two finding him insane. finding him insane. >> i wonder were prese >> >> today on oprah at 4:00, the vegan challenge. can you go without eating meat for a week. now learning a canal worker in the central valley found the body of a young child this morning in the canal. we're going to bring you the latest from the sheriff's news conference scheduled in the next half hour whether this discovery is connected to the giuliani cardnez kidnapping case. there is yet another delay in the independent safety tests of lead in children's products. what's the holdup this time. those stories and more later today at 5:00. >> talking about oprah's vegan challenge, we kind of have the fog challenge. >> we h

anthony kennedy presided over the murder trial of hamlet, the prince of denmark.s a mock trial held yesterday at the university of southern california. in the shakespeare play, particular, hamlet fatally stabbed the king's advisor. they determined whether hamlet suffered from a mental diseases. jurors deliberated 20 minutes and ended in a hung jury with two finding him sane and two finding him insane. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> today on oprah at 4:00, the vegan challenge. can you go without eating meat for a week. now learning a canal worker in the central valley found the body of a young child this morning in the canal. we're going to bring you the latest from the sheriff's news conference scheduled in the next half hour whether this discovery is connected to the giuliani cardnez kidnapping case. there is yet another delay in the independent safety tests of lead in children's products. what's the holdup this time. those stories and more later today at 5:00. >> talking about oprah's vegan challenge, we kind of have the fog challenge. >> we have a very sha

it will come back to justice anthony kennedy. >> he is our mubarak. >> he is . tony kennedy -- thank you, ronald reagan. >> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has written a memoir entitled "known and unknown." regrets, he said a few. he said "we know where they are" with respect to weapons of mass destruction in iraq. he has, i gather, no real regrets. "at saddam hussein remained in power, the middle east would be far more perilous than it is today." >> it is a defense of the book. what else would we expect it donald rumsfeld to write? he's being a defense of human being. he does score some points against other people. he's actually read that the whole process broke down, that condoleezza rice did not do a good job, that colin powell was not as assertive as he might have been. >> how can you blame colin powell for not being assertive enough when you just take them in the proverbial groin and nature he could not walk? -- and made sure he cannot walk? >> i am a big fan of colin powell, but i think historians will go back and see a period where they wished tha

anthony kennedy. justice kennedy has never taken the originalist approach that john has argued for today. in fact justice kennedy more than any justice in history has look at events throughout the world in interpreting the constitution. and lawrence he pointed out how western nations were prohibiting private consensual same-sex sexual activity. in a case just last year justice kennedy wrote for the court in think it is cruel and unusual punishment to impose a sentence of life without parole for crime committed by a juvenile. justice kennedy emphasized there that there is no country in the world that would do this. in 2005 justice kennedy wrote the opinion that said that the death penalty for crimes committed by juveniles is cruel and unusual punishment and only seven countries in the world would allow such punishment. justice kennedy wants to be on the right side of history, the right side of the world trend. he knows that canada has long allowed marriage equality, mexico city does, almost every nation

. >> supreme court justice anthony kennedy presided over the murder trial over hamlet, the prince ofenmark. there was a mock trial held yesterday in southern california. in the shakespeare play hamlet fatally stabbed the teen's adviser. they argued whether hamlet suffered from a mental diseases. jurors deliberated 20 minutes and ended in a hung jury with ten finding him sane and two finding him insane. i didn't know they dressed like that in those times. >> pretty fashionable. let the debate begin again. a study that could have more red light cameras showing up at your intersection. >> caps for cops. the new deal that would put more officers on oakland streets. >> a palo alto school is grieving this morning and also worried. i'm amy holyfield. i'm explain coming up. >> good morning. two dozen states in the line of fire for a historic and destructive winter storm right on through tomorrow. we've got airports closed in the state of texas right now. we'll have our own local forecast coming up. >> and heads up in san jose. hot spot getting worse on northbound 101. there is an injury acci

on the heels of justice anthony kennedy calling attention to this problem, a group of ninth circuit judges led by chief judge alec cainski urged the senators strongly to fill the vacancy and chief justice roberts highlighted this crisis in his year end state of the judiciary report. so what can can be done about this? well, today we are extremely lucky to be able to hear from someone who is so well suited to answer that question. white house counsel bob bauer will share his views on the nomination process so what he sees as the likely development in the coming year. bob was named white house counsel in november 2009. he was formerly a partner and chair of its political law group. bob was president obama's personal attorney and general counsel of obama -- of the obama for america campaign. he also served as general counsel to the dnc, as co-counsel to the new hampshire state senate in the trial of chief justice david barack. he was general counsel to bill bradley for president. and he was also counsel to the democratic leader in the trial of william jefferson clinton. bob has graciously agr

and and and scalia and anthony kennedy are 74. the best guarantee of a long life span is to be confirmed to the supreme court. [laughter] if not of them leave between , this willuary 2013 be it through the second, term. -- second, term. >> the impact of the 2004 election was to perpetuate the balance that was there. it moved it a little bit right. it is safe to say that justice alito is a little more conservative than justice o'connor. >> second thing we agree on an. >> the results of the 2008 election locked in that status quo with younger versions of the stevens and souter. we can predict with greater certainty where justice kagan will end op-ed th -- will end up than erwin said. i knew her at the university of chicago -- not her judicial philosophy, but her life philosophy, and i think she will manifest that. she and adjust the sotomayor will easily -- and justice sotomayor will easily fit into what stevens and souter vacated. >> would you have a voted to confirm alito and roberts and would you on sotomayor naand kagan? >> the

on the heels of justice anthony kennedy calling attention to this problem, a group of nine circuit judges led by chief judge alex kosinski, a reagan appointee, wrote to senators reid and mcconnell, asking them to fill the vacancies. so what can be done about this? today we are extremely lucky to be able to hear from someone who is so well suited to answer that question. white house counsel paul bauer will share his view on the nomination process and what he sees as the likely development in the coming years. bob was named white house counsel in november 2009. it was formerly a partner of the law firm and chair of its political law group. he was president obama's personal attorney. he also served as general counsel to the dnc, as co- counsel to the -- and was general counsel to bill bradley for president. he was also counsel to the democratic leader in the trial of william jefferson clinton. bob has graciously agreed to take a few minutes of questions at the conclusion of his remarks and we will then hear from an extremely distinguished panel. now what is my pleasure to turn this over to b

both anthony scalia and anthony kennedy are 74. not likely that a justice will leave before 2013. >> except for the editorialize in along the way, i agree with that. the impact of the 2004 election was to perpetuate the balance that was there. it actually moved to a little bit right. the result of the 2008 election locked in that status quo with younger versions of -- with sotomayor and elena kagan. we can predict with greater certainty where elena kagan will end up. i knew her as a professor at the university of chicago. there was no doubt where her early life philosophy was. she will manifest that. she and justice sotomayor are easily going to fit into the seats that were vacated on almost every issue. >> would you have voted to confirm roberts? john, would you have voted for sotomayor and elena kagan? >> i testified against the confirmation of samuel all legal. the reality is that these are not moderate conservatives. when you talk about roberts, they are everything that liberals fear. when you put them together, they are the fo

on the heels of justice anthony kennedy calling attention to this problem, a group of nine circuit judges led by chief judge alex kosinski, a reagan appointee, wrote to senators reid and mcconnell, asking them to fill the vacancies. so what can be done about this? today we are extremely lucky to be able to hear from someone who is so well suited to answer that question. white house counsel paul bauer will share his view on the nomination process and what he sees as the likely development in the coming years. bob was named white house counsel in november 2009. it was formerly a partner of the law firm and chair of its political law group. he was president obama's personal attorney. he also served as general counsel to the dnc, as co- counsel to the -- and was general counsel to bill bradley for president. he was also counsel to the democratic leader in the trial of william jefferson clinton. bob has graciously agreed to take a few minutes of questions at the conclusion of his remarks and we will then hear from an extremely distinguished panel. now what is my pleasure to turn this over to b

it all comes down to the opinion of one man, justice anthony kennedy, who's the swing vote on a closelyhoma city back to kansas city. blizzard concerns building into chicago where they may be buried in about one to two feet of snow just into wednesday. for the northeast, this may not turn out to be a major snow event. we actually have mild air coming out of the south. so it begins as snow in philadelphia, even new york city, and changes over more to an icy mix. the roads will be pretty slippery but looks like the worst of the snow will be heading up to the north as the storm makes an appearance in the northeast on wednesday. back to you. >>> now to the other major story we are following this morning, the crisis in egypt. cairo is gearing up for a march of a million people. overnight the army said they will not use force to stop them. the newly appointed vice president says he will begin talks with all political groups. but protesters say their chief demand is that president hosni mubarak must step down. >>> the state department plans at least nine charter flights today to evacuate some

on the heels of just as anthony kennedy, calling attention to this problem, a group of circuit judges led by chief judge alec kaczynski, a reagan appointee wrote to senators reid and mcconnell, urging them strongly to fill the vacant in chief justice robert highlighted this crisis in his year-end state of the judiciary report. so what can be done about this? while today we are extremely likely to be able to hear from someone who is so well-suited to answer that question. white house counsel, bob hour will share his views on the nominations process and what he sees as the likely developments in the coming year. bob was named white house counsel in november of 29. he was formerly a partner at perkins truly and chair of its political group. bob was president obama's personal attorney and general counsel of the obama for america campaign. he also served as general counsel to the sea, cocounsel at the new hampshire state senate in the trial of chief justice david rocker. he was general counsel to bill bradley for president and he was also counsel to the democratic leader in the trial of pr

visit gabby and to meet with some of the families to also take pride in the fact that justice anthony kennedy from the supreme court came on the trip, as well as sandra day o'connor, who is from arizona, who was there that evening as well. they were joined by other judges who served -- justice who is served with judge roll as a tribute to him personally and officially. it was wonderful to hear the beautiful statements that they made in our conversations about chief judge roll. and they all sang the praises of maureen. so i hope it is a comfort to maureen, to their three sons, and five grandchildren that so many people are saddened by their loss. and are praying for them at this very sad time and that this courthouse will long stand as a tribute and appropriate tribute to judge roll. i yield back the balance of my time. thanks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. denham: i wish to yield two minutes to the gentleman from arizona, mr. gosar. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. gosar: i ask unan

both anthony scalia and anthony kennedy are 74. it is not likely that a justice will leave before 2013. >> except for the editorialize in along the way, i agree with that. the impact of the 2004 election was to perpetuate the balance that was there. it actually moved to a little bit right. the result of the 2008 election locked in that status quo with younger versions of -- with sotomayor and elena kagan. we can predict with greater certainty where elena kagan will end up. i knew her as a professor at the university of chicago. there was no doubt where her early life philosophy was. she will manifest that. she and justice sotomayor are easily going to fit into the seats that were vacated on almost every issue. >> would you have voted to confirm roberts? john, would you have voted for sotomayor and elena kagan? >> i testified against the confirmation of suel all legal. the reality is that these are not moderate conservatives. when you talk about roberts, they are everything that liberals fear. whenou put them together, they are the

he served as all law clerk for anthony kennedy at the nine circuit before clerking for warren burgerunited states supreme court. he was nominated to the ninth circuit by president reagan in 1985 at the ripe old age of 35. i think it makes you feel a little inadequate. he served with distinction on that court before coming its 10th chief justice and chief judge in 2007. i am informed that he is a very good poker player. welcome, judge kosinski. finally, let me introduce our moderator for the evening, prof. gerald uelman, not only is he one of the foremost experts support -- studding the supreme court, but he was dean when i went here. and his name is on my diploma. based on that, i always refer to him as the team. but me turn over -- let me turn it over to you, to get the program "collegial courts in a contentious climate" under way. >> thank you. let's get right down to business. i think we should agree on what we mean by collegiality. one definition of what like to throw out to you -- i do not mean that all judges are friends, i do not mean that the members of the court never disagr

he served as a law clerk for justice anthony kennedy before then clerking ford chief justice warren burgereme court. he was nominated by president reagan in 1985. at the ripe old age of 35. it makes you feel a little inadequate, doesn't it? he served with distinction, becoming its tent chief judge in 2007. i am also informed he is a very good poker player. welcome. [applause] finally, let me introduce our moderator for this evening. not only is he one of the foremost experts studying the california supreme court, he actually was dean of the law school here when i went here. his name is on my diploma. based on that, i still refer to him as the dean. let me turn it over to you to get the program -- "maintaining collegiality in a contentious climate" under way. >> thank you. [applause] to get right down to business, we should agree on what we mean by collegiality. the late judge harry edwards offered a definition i would like to throw out to you. he said i do not mean all judges are friends. i do not mean the members of the court never disagree. collegiality is a process that helps create the