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you are not the arbiter. you cannot protect bad cops. they will ruin you. if there are 100 cops and three of them are bad, we look at these videos and say, you are all bad. how do we get that the community's faith? it cannot be done by one person. i think we start teaching young policeman -- if you like, if you teach -- if you cheat, you are going to get fired. you are going to get prosecuted. that is the message to come out of these cases. if they commit perjury, they have to go. we have to teach young officers and older officers, you cannot do this. you should never have started. breaking the rules because you think you have to do it to get a bad guy, breaking the rules because you do not trust defense lawyers because we are going to let these scumbags off. i trust the attempts to be done bechief suhr, but it is a long- range process. i am not an apologist for greg suhr or the district attorney, but they have to find a solution. without the state, law enforcement does not work. [applause] >> so, chief suhr -- [laughter] what do you do about this problem o

and they are the ash tr b arbit. the mass belongs to the church.nd i am call today be an official representative of the church. it's not for me to change. it's for me to do it as effectively as well as possible. >> in a statement, the u.s. bishops said there is "an openness and readiness to receive the new text." some priests clearly aren't ready yet. >> at some point, i will be required to teach the congregation about what is coming. and i cannot lie to the people. i cannot pretend to be enthusiastic about a translation that i don't believe in. i will say what needs to be said, but i will have to say to those people whom i love that my heart isn't in it. and i dread saying that. >> but, for now it seems, catholics will have to learn to live with the changes whether they like them or not. >> this past year, there was a wave of new books examining age old questions about the afterlife. do heaven and held really exist? what are they like and who goes where. one of the best selling of these books was pastor robb bell. it ignited a fierce debate. >> i

you are not the arbiter. you cannot protect bad cops. they will ruin you. if there are 100 cops and three of them are bad, we look at these videos and say, you are all bad. how do we get that the community's faith? it cannot be done by one person. i think we start teaching young policeman -- if you like, if you teach -- if you cheat, you are going to get fired. you are going to get prosecuted. that is the message to come out of these cases. if ey

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when cbo was really, became sort of the crucial arbiter of whether the health care reform would actually add to the deficit or subtract from the deficit. >> professor joyce, you might in your book that because of cbo they put off action on the health care bill for your? >> that's correct. if the health care reform had not been viewed as something that had to at least be deficit neutral, and i think cbo would not necessarily have had as important a role as it had. but what you say that one of the things you are concerned about him and really president obama himself elevated cbo to this stature by saying that he would not sign a bill that added to the deficit, that really meant that it was a much higher hurdle for bills to get over if that had not been true. and certainly there were delays at various stages of the process because the congress was waiting to find out whether, whatever their latest version was, could sort of pass the cbo test spin and doug elmendorf used to work for dick gephardt, didn't he? >> i'm not sure of that. it's possible. >> is there a professional staff as well as

when the cbo became the crucial arbiter of whether the health care reform or support from the deficit. >> you write in your book because of c.o.d. put off action on the health care bill. if the health care reform hadn't been viewed as something that had to at least be deficit neutral, then i think cbo wouldn't necessarily have had as important a role as it had but once you see one of the things you are concerned about and really president obama himself a will dated to the stature that he wouldn't sign a bill that added to the deficit that really meant it was a much higher hurdle for the bills to get over and that hadn't been true and certainly there were delays at various stages in the process because congress was waiting to find out whether whatever the latest version was the sort of pass the test. >> he used to work for gephardt, didn't he? >> it is possible. >> now, is there a professional staff as well that goes through administrations? >> yes but it is not a professional stuff like you'd find in most federal agencies in two respects i suppose the first is that it is dominated by

the royals stepped out together in london last nichlt. >> royal contributor victoria arbiter is here is the first time all four of them have been at an engagement together. >> they do spend a lot of time together. this is a tight-knit family, however, was the first night they have been out in an official capacity and raising money for both prince's charities. the prince's trust was a key benefactor last night's was the benefit of william and harry. both charities are aim to go help disadvantaged young people. >> how did it go? >> it went very well, i would say. yes, everyone seemed to have a great night out. no dancing in the royal box but certainly a lot of fun being had and william said to gary before the concert the louder, the better. >> judging by the crowd, a lot of dauncing going on. how do you avoid not dancing? >> tapping your toes? >> one of the royal commentators said they are were jingle jiangling their jewelry. >> very common folkish. >> i love that. so you mentioned gary barlow which people in the states may not be as familiar with. this is apparently someone that kate

donald trump is trying to make a move and to say that he is the arbiter of a lot of things in the republican party. some republicans really love donald trump and he wants to make sure that republican insiders are aware of that thememitt romney says like he is not playing that game. thank you so much. >>> take a look at the day ahead -- a fairfax county man is expected -- is suspected of being a pakistani spy. prosecutors say he receive millions of dollars from the pakistan intelligence agency when he ran a d.c.-based lobbying firm that did not reported. >>> two former virginia governors will hold their first debate today. george allen and democrat tim kaine will face off this afternoon at the state capitol in richmond >>> air hearing will begin today on whether virginia tech should pay fines related to the 2007 shooting that killed 33 people. the u.s. education department fined the school $55,000 to be too slow in notifying the campus about the shooting. they are denying any wrongdoing. >>> the tree lighting on capitol hill did not exactly go off without a hitch. >> , 2, 1. >>> that was hous

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justices should have the power to strike down laws you seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions of very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy the constitution has erected no such single tribunals i know of no a safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves so the question is what do we do about a two powerful judiciary well new proposal something radical arresting judges. one of the things you say is that if you don't like what a court has done that congress should subpoena the judge and brain him before congress him and hold a congressional hearing some people say that's unconstitutional but i'll let that go for a minute i just want to ask you promote practical standpoint how would you do in force that would use in the capitol police now to arrest him if you had to or you have or you'd instruct the. justice department to send the u.s. marshal a listing here and who goes a little over the top his promise is still right we don't need to be sunny u.s. marshals after f

have failed to take their authority, because now we've gotten to the point where we think the final arbiter of law is the court system. it isn't. >> i want to be clear here, would a president bachmann ignore decisions that you disagreed with that were issued by the supreme court? >> no. we don't ignore those decisions. but, again, we need to remember that the united states congress and the president of the united states have the power and authority to pass law. we have the idea that laws are ultimately made by courts today. but that isn't true. the supreme -- the congress, together with the president, can pass law, and change what the supreme court says. they also have -- >> that's a point of fact. but that's not in dispute, congresswoman. that's never been in dispute. of course congress can pass laws. the issue here is sort of an attack on the judiciary, do you believe that supreme court justices should be elected. were that solve the problem? >> no. no. the -- the constitution is set up the way that it should be. the problem is, the supreme court, or other members of the court, have passe

and build on victor's very apt description as robert as the arbiter of the moral of the universe. it may be an interesting question why a journalism organization based at a journalism school is sponsoring its talk with a psychiatrist. i have to say when i read the book, one of the things i learned, robert, you were briefly a journalist in college, though, you violated the ethical code from changing to covering the tennis team to playing on the tennis team. >> that was my advocacy. [laughter] >> the end of a promising career in journalism. but also and really because of so much what we chart as journalists in the world today, whether it is war or terrorism, perpetration of violence or survivors of violence, torture all of these actions, are on terrain that robert j. lifton was there first on. at the dart center i spent a lot of time talking with friends and colleagues, journalists, clinicians, researchers who have dealt with these issues. and one issue after another you trip over and counter face down or in dialog with the work of robert j. lifton who has enables us to understand t

then they're going to be tar th arbiters.ister to vote and -- >> the people they're trying to help can't wait until november 2012. we're talking about serious action right now. >> is this going to really bring it about? [ overlapping speakers ] >> we're talking about it now, right. >> we're talking about it. i'm not stopping someone from being homeless. >> let's stop and mention here that we have someone running for president in the republican party who is near the top of the ticket that's mitt romney who said only a few weeks ago, let's actually go to the sound. i'll let him speak for himself. mitt romney. >> don't try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up. >> this is a legitimate argument to make. all the band-aid efforts to try to keep people in the homes are prolonging the process of letting house prices hit bottom and go back up. i think you need to make the distinction between

i'm going to keep going back to that arbiter of finance and economic plans.he "wall street journal" says if you want somebody to do something effective regard to the economy, look at jon huntsman's economic plans. at the end of the day, if you think about it being eight or ten states instead of 50, you have to be looking at governor huntsman. >> i'm going to lose you in just a minute. does he need to win new hampshire or have a strong showing? >> a strong showing. several people have said a second or third, all of a sudden gets him in the limelight where he needs to gone. there's been all these other candidates. at the end of the day it could end up being governor romney, speaker gingrich and jon huntsman after new hampshire. >> thanks for your work on the flight 93 memorial. merry christmas. thanks for being on "hardball." >> i was going to thank you for your work on flight 93 memorial. >>> their opposition to everything president obama does is finally catching up with them. >>> when the editorial page of the "wall street journal" takes a shot at house repub

. >> are the courts the only arbiter of the constitution. >> i think i answered that, absolutely not.e only one in this field who's actually done something about t only one and called for the abolishment of the 9th circuit and done so. >> mike: senator. >> because the court we have the power to do so, i'm out of time. i appreciate it, mike. >> mike: thank you very much. thank you very much for come ogg of the campaign trail being here tonight and be with these attorneys. great to be with you. >> mike: thank you. we'll see senator santorum also at theened of the forum. coming up, texas governor rick perry, michele bachmann, ron paul and former massachusetts governor mitt romney. stay with us. ♪ >> mike: welcome back to huckabee and >> welcome back to huckabee and our special, republican presidential forum. joining us now is texas governor rick perry and the first question from ken cuccinelli. >> good morning, good to see you. >> yes. >> and you said if you were president, would you block the health care law, what is your authority to unvalidate a law passed by congress and-- >> in the

world we're ignoring now in both a touch and sensible kind of way i'm going to keep going babb to the arbiteronomic plans, the "wall street journal" says if you really want somebody 20 do something effective, look at jon huntsman's plan. if you think about it being eight or ten states instead of 50, you have to be looking at governor huntsman. >> i'm going to lose you in a minute, does he need to win new mexico or a strong showing? >> i think a strong. several people have said second or third gets him in the limelight. there's been a winnowing of other candidates, and at the end of the day it could be governor romney, speaker gingrich and jon huntsman. >> merry christmas, governor ridge. thank you for your work on the flight 93 memorial. >> i was going to thank you for your work. thank you, michael. >>> when we return, let me finish with how the republican party's opposition is finally catching up to them. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people came to louisiana... they came to see us in florida... make that alaba

because now we have gotten to the point where we think the final arbiter of law is the court system.t. the intention of the founders was that the courts would be the least powerful system of government. and if we give to the courts the right to make law, then the people will have lost their representation. they need to hold on to their representation. that is why i commend iowans because they chose not to retain three judges that decided that marriage would be in their residence -- [ applause ] iowans decided to take their constitution back. that is what the american people need to do. take the constitution back. and as president of the united states, i would only appoint judges to the supreme court who believe in the original intent of the constitution. >> megyn: congressman paul, let me ask you. do you believe what the two candidates have said, that it would be okay to abolish courts like the ninth circuit court of appeals entirely or judges, impeach them if congressmen don't decide they like the ruling? >> the congress can get rid of the courts say if a judge misbehaves or is unet

have failed to take their authority, because now we've gotten to the point where we think the final arbiterhe court system. it isn't. >> i want to be clear here, would a president bachmann ignore decisions that you disagreed with that were issued by the supreme court? >> no. we don't ignore those decisions. but, again, we need to remember that the united states congress and the president of the united states have the power and authority to pass law. we have the idea that laws are ultimately made by courts today. but that isn't true. the supreme -- the congress, together with the president, can pass law, and change what the supreme court says. they also have -- >> that's a point of fact. but that's not in dispute, congresswoman. that's never been in dispute. of course congress can pass laws. the issue here is sort of an attack on the judiciary, do you believe that supreme court justices should be elected. were that solve the problem? >> no. no. the -- the constitution is set up the way that it should be. the problem is, the supreme court, or other members of the court, have passed decisions

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