james billington, the library of congress, and the staff of the library and arco's this evening, welcome to this time is -- timely discussion of the supreme court of the united states. just about this time last year, a colleague mark toregas, the executive producer of the documentary standing on -- who is here on the back roarow, rown a letter to me asking if c-span could bring cameras inside the halls of the noble court to tell the story that happened just a block away from here. we have previously done so with the white house and the capital. the chief said yes and we began by bringing our cameras, disturbing the many times in the day and night over the next couple of months. it seemed logical to us to write letters to each of the justices asking if they will participate in the project. justice stephen briar was the first to say yes, offering us a tour of his chambers. to our amazement, one by one, all of the other justices said yes. and soon we found we had the opportunity to interview all nine sitting justices and the two retired justices, the first time in history that all 11 of the

over the weekend, bp and arco kind of traded blows over who should be responsible because arco owns 25% of the wealth. -- the wealth. -- the well. >> we will make sure that all responsible parties sharing the responsibility of paying the debt. >> [inaudible] about not reinstating the supervisory tax? >> [unintelligible] >> is the president taking time to prepare for the visit? are theirs was a big issues the you want -- want to point out -- are there specific issues that you want to point out? >> this goes back a year ago when president obama was in moscow on that trip. this is a relationship on a wide variety of issues. a host of issues, not believe the least -- not the least of which is strengthening the economic ties between the two countries. we look forward to having president mcvet of here. >> -- president medvedev here. >> what will be the focus of his visit? >> to talk to the president and visit the white house. >> [unintelligible] >> i cannot understand your question. >> [unintelligible] and he was worried about the u.s. sharing intelligence. [unintelligible] >> i'm going to as

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and if you read the boor here, people like head of ceba, pacific mutual, arco chemical, schmuckers, texas instrument -- you get the idea, right? and they did all the study over a few years period of time. and i think it lasted through the reagan administration and the bush administration. they ended their studies about 1990. they came out with their finding. he wanted to deliver this to me. jim renier wanted to see me. and you know what their executive decision was. the nation must redefine education as a process that begins at birth and recognizes that the potential for learning begins even earlier and encompasses the physical, social and cognitive development of children. education begins at birth and the preparation for education begins before birth. this whole thing -- this is the hard-headed business community of america said we've got pay more attention to early childhood development. we've got to put more emphasis on early childhood learning. they went so far as to say, we need to put emphasis on maternal and infant care programs so that children are healthy. that's what this is al

james billington, the staff of the library that arco hosting us this evening. welcome to our timely discussion about the supreme court of the united states. that video was the opening of a documentary about the history of the supreme court that we released last fall. just about this time last year, a colleague wrote a letter to the chief justice asking it c- span could bring high-definition cameras inside the marble halls of the court to tell the history of the stately building just one block from here. if c-span could bring cameras inside the halls of the noble court to tell the story that happened just a block away from here. we have previously done so with the white house and the capital. the chief said yes and we began by bringing our cameras, disturbing the many times in the day and night over the next couple of months. it seemed logical to us to write letters to each of the justices asking if they will participate in the project. justice stephen briar was the first to say yes, offering us a tour of his chambers. to our amazement, one by one, all of the ot