university law professor randy barnett about his book "restoring the lost constitution" in which he argues that for many decades u.s. courts have failed to uphold the parts of the constitution to protect our liberties. >> randy barnett is now joining: us on booktv.us on ellis about yourself. >> i'm a professor of legal lite er georgetown law school were ih also direct georgetown center for the constitution and i'm a former criminalfo prosecutor inr cook county illinois in chicago but i argued the medical marijuana case in the supreme court and i was one of the lawyers for the national federation of independent business when the challenge the affordable care act all the way up to the t supreme court. >> given all that experience, what you think o of the constitution? >> i'd like to constitutional law. i think i like it a lot more than those who want to change it. by having created judicial interpretations of what it'scr supposed to mean and eliminatin large part of the constitution. >> so when we have that argument come and hoosier book by the way, showing "restoring the lost constitution:

he said to one of his constituents, arguing with you is like arguing with my dining room table. rand paul gets into trouble often. whether or not we like them personally, we have to ask why we stifle people who seem to peek outside the mainstream contours of normal political rhetoric. why do we do that? why do we continue to do it? let's talk about humanity. this is the most interesting part of democracy, this is what the founders talked about. what does it mean to be human? what does it mean to govern ourselves if we are human and our leaders are human. we will make mistakes, recognize our mistakes. in the federalist papers, the founders say this is natural. it might be in our interest to accommodate it and turn a vice into a virtue by anticipating it and structuring conflict and istakes into government. it is worth quoting. i want you to think about forgiving yourself for being human. unless it is the case that you are perfect and everybody else is off. imagine a society that nature had organized in a way to bear the transient effects of bad laws. a society that without perish

he said to one of his constituents, arguing with you is like arguing with my dining room table. rand paul gets into trouble often. whether or not we like them personally, we have to ask why we stifle people who seem to peek outside the mainstream contours of normal political rhetoric. why do we do that? why do we continue to do it? let's talk about humanity. this is the most interesting part of democracy, this is what the founders talked about. what does it mean to be human? what does it mean to govern ourselves if we are human and our leaders are human. we will make mistakes, recognize our mistakes. in the federalist papers, the founders say this is natural. it might be in our interest to accommodate it and turn a vice into a virtue by anticipating it and structuring conflict and mistakes into government. it is worth quoting. i want you to think about forgiving yourself for being human. unless it is the case that you are perfect and everybody else is off. imagine a society that nature had organized in a way to bear the transient effects of bad laws. a society that without peris

questions, and i even joined an amicus brief with jim harper arguing it was unconstitutional. >> host: i think i read that texas has passed a law making e-mail, giving e-mail fourth amendment protections. >> guest: um, i'm -- i haven't heard about that one. >> host: right. but if that's the case, i mean, with the commerce clause and the interstate commerce clause, how would that play out? >> guest: well, all texas could do is protect e-mail from their own law enforcement officers in the state of texas, which is what they ought to do. they can't really have any effect on what the federal government does when they pass a law like that. >> host: in your view, is e-mail due fourth amendment protection? >> guest: absolutely. i do think they claim to give can it fourth amendment protection when they say they can't read your e-mail, they can only survey the headers, information as to who you send it to and who you got it from, and they're claiming not to be able to read your e-mail, so they're sort of admitting that e-mail is protected already. but be i think metadata which is what they call

he said to one of his constituents but arguing with you is like arguing with my dining room table. rand paul gets into trouble often. like them not we personally, we have to ask why we stifle people who seem to peek outside the mainstream contours of normal political rhetoric. why do we do that? why do we continue to do it? let's talk about humanity. this is the most interesting part of democracy, this is what the founders talked about. what does it mean to be human? what does it mean to govern human andif we are our leaders are human. we will make mistakes, recognize our mistakes. thehe federalist ebbers, founders say this is natural. it might be in our interest to accommodate it and turn a vice into a virtue by anticipating it and structuring conflict and mistakes into government. it is worth quoting. i want you to think about forgiving yourself for being human. unless it is the case that you are perfect and everybody else is off. that natureciety had organized in a way to bear the transient effects of bad laws. a society that without perishing await the tendencies of the law. th

the point of robert yates himself a former dci he argued that the 9/11 commission's dni would create essentially someone who would be unable to effectuate his will. indeed this was the view of almost all but one of the former directors of central intelligence who argued that the only way to increase centralized power in the intelligence community would be to give him more authority and more bureaucracies to directly control and not to subtract from this authority by separating these community management functions, these core dating functions from the cia, from langley virginia. finally another camp and this is interesting because of the two people were and the issues they would come to hold. they argued without the knowledge of secretary rumsfeld ironically enough that the national security agency and the national geospatial agency at the very least these two factors of intelligence now we know very well through the constant revelations in the newspaper, they argued that the dni would be indeed feckless unless they had authority, direction and control over these massive intelligence

we are not arguing to have the fence lowered. we are arguing for the requirements of a fence for a greater height have not been met. i just want to share something that appeared in the new yorker last week. president obama was quoted making an observation that i find particularly relevant here tonight. at the end of the day we are part of a long running story and we are just trying to get our paragraph right. that's really all we are asking for here. mount olympus monument park has a history that extends over 125 years and a part of the long running story of san francisco. i'm just asking, let's just try to get our paragraph right. thank you very much. >> thank you. please come forward. >> thanks, everyone. the appellant and everyone else. my name is neal, i'm one of the property owners. the appellant has not demonstrated that the zoning administrator has errored or abused his judgment. if anything, the picture that i can show you here has maintained what everybody has called a sacred space. this view is still available. if anyth

or we're arguing about welfare reform and eliminating forms of welfare. you know something? i know that if i pay a guy working a counter at a fast food place $10 or $12 or $15, i know if i give a welfare check to a mother of two in west baltimore -- i know that all of that money's actually going back into the american economy. i know that every single dollar has a multiplier factor. nobody's saving money on $12 an hour in america. they're living hand to mouth. and i know that every single dollar is going to be multiplied through the economy. you give me a tax break, you know, working as i do in the entertainment industry and at the level of a tv producer and i can't figure out how to spend enough of it, you know. i might -- you know, i might have a little conscience. i might throw some of it to charity and try to feel better about myself. but i can't possibly -- how many yachts can i water ski behind in baltimore harbor? and yet that's the kind of argument that supply side economics is. give us the job makers, the money and we'll make jobs. not with all of it you won't. a lo

it's said that at one point, morgan locked them in while they argued over which firms to save.n played solitaire at his desk until they made their decision. morgan had saved the day, as a grateful nation acknowledged, but the panic's costs were high. it affected banks, businesses, and personal lives, including that of a disgraced, distraught charles barney, who killed himself. ironically, the knickerbocker trust was not a bad bank. it reopened five months later. the people who frantically lined up here got most of their money back. the nation's bankers faced two important realities. could they allow the power to save the banking system to remain in the hands of a j.p. morgan? the bankers turned to the federal government. they accepted the need for a central bank. the other important reality was that despite all its inherent instability, the bankers wouldn't give up fractional-reserve banking. economic analyst richard gill explains why. why bankers wouldn't want to give up a fractional-reserve system is pretty obvious. they make money by lending. is this somehow sinful? hardly.

we argue no. even if you cannot get the legal architecture together for un security council resolutions, there is a higher principle of state here and that assad should not be allowed -- and for that matter any rebel militia to stop the convoy. you're arguing for the use of force. the mere threat of force could be enough to make assad back off . the proposed strike set in motion a process so much he's travel very quickly. all two the year when the russians proposed a deal to hand over the chemical weapons to just claim to did not have. add on haven't, but do they are. >> i no there are a lot of questions. >> cure is and know that something will happen and how great that syrian song. not an irony to see a chemical weapon. it is the power. so really that is what he would tell them because we don't want to do anything. >> let me ask you to get to the question. >> the question is assad is the man who is doing of the killing. and behind it assad is russia and the united nations. we don't -- you don't w

about the right to vote, arguing about the, you know, access to schools. all of the things that we think about when we think about group rights. the idea was that we're not going to prevail using violence on those sorts of questions. on the other hand, self-defense is this individual response to a threat that occurs within that window of imminence; that is, the place where it is impossible for the state even if the state turns out to be not a malevolent state, even if the state turns out to be operating, motivated by goodwill, you still have to recognize there's a place just as a matter of physics where the state can't respond. and on those sorts of fundamental, in those self-defense scenarios that are really just baseline fundamental, there's in this long embrace of the importance of firearms and armed self-defense as a private resource for black folk. and that's the dichotomy that runs really throughout the book. >> host: so is this, is this more like a spectrum that people have kind of floated back and forth? because i'm thinking of the case of william

and we're arguing for the idea that campuses create pathways to particular types of conservatism.this is important in a couple of ways. for one, the project helps us understand more about the lives of these students. how they think themselves and how they conduct their activities an also about the variety of styles an dispositions among conservative students which we wouldn't know with more generallyized media accounts or from critique emanating from conservatives. organizations -- second, the project also helps us understand more about how college campuses act as incubators for certain kinds of political styles and not others. you have that thus far, a political style are not just a reflection of individual choices, and they are developed, they're shared cultural in interaction with others in local settings as well as in dialogue with broader cultural politics. and styles -- we also learned from this research that political mobilization is closely connected to the long-term professional project that these students envision themselves having. the jobs they want, where they see the

the feds argue: >> reaction to the decision is mixed. the mother of a victim was opposed to the death penalty and is reconsidering her position. a poll found 57% of those surveyed favoured a sentence of life in prison. what is the community saying? >> we have a comment from henry who says: we put out the question whether families of victims should have a say and they say: >> if you have a family that essentially has lost someone to some vicious crime, whether there was sexual abuse or torture, before death, and they tell you that they cannot find peace unless the person who committed the crime is no more, how do you argue back with that? what do you say with them? >> sure. i think taking into consideration the family of the victims feelings is important. we have a process to do that in court called victim impact. at the end of the day we don't have vig lanty justice. there's a number of factors that contribute to a killing. societal factors, vulnerability factors. human error, prejudice, all kinds of things. part of the aim of the justic

which we argue lodge lates -- modulates the feeling to go rogue. i could go on about class size, registration procedures that are much more tailored to the individual student and other academic features like students' more personal relationships with faculty, but you probably get the picture that organizationally eastern looks different than western. and that as a consequence of all of these cull curl meanings and organization -- cultural meanings, eastern conservative students even while they say they suffer from marginalization still feel that they're part of the university's deep and manufactured community. such a sense of community rules out, for most conservatives, the activist provocative style. despite it being a style that's been vigorously promoted in go to p politics and used -- gop politics and used on other campuses. i want to emphasize that students at western and eastern from their self-reports were more similar in their styles at the time that they entered college than at the time that we interviewed them two, three, four and more ye

i argue to have robust private industry or free-market you have to have both. i begin each chapter with a quotation starting now looking at the conventional view with regulation and less interference in as $169 billion in tax. this comes from the cato institute that has a sleek but obviously. if you think about it the industry with 2.$7 trillion that is a low rate of taxation but i would argue it is more in the nature of the investment of the attack it is what makes it possible. but this view has been pervasive if you look historically teddy roosevelt first raised the issue of the universal national coverage plan to did not succeed. then someone else picked up the call it is hard to read but from the left is the push back to talk about the social attempt to take over our health care system. so familiar 100 years later. in the 40's truman proposed a similar plan. that was called socialized medicine and if you can see the beer unit -- the puppeteer is described as, biggest tuned in the '60s with medicare was proposed the actor at the time who may look familiar pr

. >> reporter: his lawyer argued he's not a flight risk and his daughter says reeves' health is failing. >> he has high blood pressure that he takes medication for. he has high cholesterol that he takes medication for. >> reporter: also in court, nicole olson who was sitting with her husband chad at the theatre when he was killed and she was injured. >> good girl. >> reporter: she says chad was just checking his phone for messages about their teething nearly 2-year-old daughter. a deputy who was in the theatre recalls the escalating argument. >> he is yelling, i am trying to text, pardon the language, i am trying to text my [ bleep ] daughter if you don't mind. >> so what turned a dispute over e-mailing into a deadly altercation? according to witnesses, thrown popcorn. >> he threw some popcorn and almost immediately the gun comes out and the shots fire. >> i'll show you to throw popcorn at me. i then saw the flash from the muzzle of the gun. >> and then 0 to 60, my whole world just shattered. >> today, a heart broken nicole olson describe what is she says set reeves off. >> he's a gentl

in 1996, virginia was arguing to do the same thing to women. justice ginsburg wrote the opinion deeming this arrangement unconstitutional. the opinion professed classifications based on sex could be upheld only if they had a persuasive justification. gender distinctions justified by broad generalizations about women were benign efforts to help women could not stand. applying these principles, she rejected virginia's rationalizations that its system of single-sex schools was intended to provide a diversity of educational opportunities or to maintain the rigorous physical regiment. drawing on a wealth historical and sociological knowledge, she compared those explanations to reasons that bar associations once gave to exclude women from the practice of law or police departments once offered to exclude women from their ranks. she refused to accept any explanation based on what women would prefer. most men would also prefer not to be subjected to the physical rigors of vmi. a point on which even our dissenting colleagues might agree. the opinion is a

down as well as cover other global operations, but a large chunk of that is what most people would arguease budget. they belong in the budget itself. to o shifthate now into the base budget, and there are folks who s that numbmber could be 5 billion, for exampl that has to move into the base budget. what's the best way to do that? are folks paying enough attention from your standpoint, both up here in the pentagon for what that's going to mean when you ship that kind ofoney out from the supplemental budget into the base budget? >> people are not paying enough attention to it. part of the problem is some programs have moved around between that supplemental and the base budget and back and forth, so it's a little bit confusing. i think we have to ve towards moving those thinginto the base budget, and we have to increase the defense topline in der to do that, but i agree with you there's not really a good understanding of how much we havgrown to depend on th overseas contingency account. >> up >> china has been using is gring economy to methodically build a growing military and improve its

the prosecutor argued a stir can convict him on a lesser charge of second degree murder.et's listen to what was said today. >> sending nine bullets into a cal full of unarmed teenagers. >> that's second degree murder, no doubt. it is reasonably certain an occupant of that vehicle could suffer death or great bodily harm. that act, itself, shows an indifference for human life. >> interesting. what is it, do you make of it that she is suggesting the jury can convict him on a lesser charge >> she would be correct because the law in florida is the charge is first degree murder in this case. then the jury is going to be instructed and has been that there are lesser included crimes that they can consider. second degree murder and man sla slaughter are lesser included crimes of first degree murder. the evidence in this case is for a very, very strong second degree murder case. there is evidence that shows pre-medtati pre-medtation. it will be up to the jury. it's a stronger, second degree murder case in my opinion after looking at the evidence that i see in this case. >> all righ

the airlines argue thousands of pets are safely shipped every year. and the usda urges if anything happens that they should report it directly to them. we set up a link on our website so people can do that. >> troubling for us pet owners. thank you, elise. >> if you have a tip, give us a call or you can always send us an e-mail. >>> should we track down janell wang? back to our olympic coverage. it's not just about the athletes, but also about mom and dad. there's a special place for them in sochi. >> janell wang joins us from olympic park. hi, janell. >> reporter: hi. some of the athletes are here from nearly a month and their families want to be here to support them. that includes parents, sometimes even children. the athletes are busy, which is most of the time, but the families have a little getaway, called the proctor and gamble house. it had its opening party thursday night and we were invited to check it out. the house is open to all athletes and family from every country. it looks like a winter lodge in the middle of winter park and provides f

certainly get variation in liberalism and conservatism within countries and those two facets will argue with one another as to who. scott the better perspective on things it seems reasonable to allow them to do that likewise you've got differences across nations and there is no harm in the debate going on between nations as to who is organizing things in a better and fairer way i think that's inevitable attacking another country because they have a different religion or view point on things is a step one that i would argue for well professor wilson unfortunately this is all we have time for i really appreciate your appearing on the show and so our viewers if you like the show please join us again same place same time here and while the party. but they are. there to look at you should always still remember. how to do it well as of the night ted said you would stop this storm we might or might people . like you. it was. a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm wrong research of. the g twenty four team promises we call timid and exhilarated winter was an insult to me and it is

certainly get very ocean in liberalism and conservatism within countries and those two facets will argue with one another as to who. scott the better perspective on things it seems reasonable to allow them to do that likewise you've got differences across nations and there is no debate going on between nations as to who is organizing things in a better and fairer way i think that's inevitable attacking another country because they have a different religion or viewpoint on things it's a step one that i would argue for well professor wilson unfortunately this is all we have time for i really appreciate your appearing on the show and so our viewers if you like the shell please join us again same place same time here in a while but find. there's a city when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's not simple little. and full of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a single complex expedition to the arctic can be conducted with the russian nuc

they believe that the west is all out on russia because of all all all those concerns and i would argue that it's not making the lives of algae pretty community here any easier i was born gay you know when i was growing up when i was a child i didn't put sexuality to you know my you know my identity i mean that's where i'll ask my straight friends you know well when did you choose to be straight. it's not a choice we're born this way it's a human right it's a birthright to love and be loved. and you know that's that's just my feeling what i've been saying all along is there is a gay child born in russia every day and who's protecting that child these anti propaganda laws were passed to uproot to quote unquote protect children from the propaganda i don't i don't see it as propaganda it's all we're trying to do is live our lives you know if you know if you're up in arms about me holding hands with my husband walking down the street. and you call that flaunting well you know when you have a married straight couple and they're holding hands in their. arms around each other making out i mean

normal live but you cannot argue that homosexuality is still a minority behavior i don't wonder. you know it used to be a pathologist even in your country i don't want to subscribe to that for you but you have to take into account the fact that homosexuals only account for five to seven let's say or eight percent of the population and that means that this is a minority behavior and ok so what so what blacks were a minority and the united states and they didn't have the right to vote you know women were not did not have the right to vote but they're human beings you know take you know take the labels away and they're human beings and it's and it's a birthright to be to love and be loved. however we express that is really our business and the government shouldn't tell me how to how to act i'm not saying that you have to do this i'm not telling anybody that they have to do anything all i'm doing is expressing myself and have the freedom and liberty to express who i am but mr le guin is on the other hand you know there is a this expression in rome do as romans do but unfortunately we

i would argue that farmers are consistently hit with that argument and we cannot see more profits in agriculture and really it is if you have fair returns for farmers to have more time and resources to the vote. regulations gets dumped down to the bottom and they hit the hardest on the bottom. so i think that we should be arguing for fair wages, minimum wage so people actually have the resource to pay for food. we should be arguing for jobs that have some level of permanence where you're not looking to be a part-time worker but rather to go back to encourage full-time employment for most people in the workforce. they are much more complicated issues and i think the food pricing often times is dumped on farmers and the cost of the regulations if they get dumped on farmers, the impact will be huge. we need to consider carefully what we are targeting. the healthy system that we are shooting for that we understand is much larger community. and that we actually need to pay attention to that because we don't want to create rules that run counter to that new emerging knowledge about how the

for shutting down international adoption what i'm arguing for is a more critical and more scientific approach and more systematic approach to taking care of those children and again going back to the reuter's investigation i think they cultivated. on the community board alone more than somewhere around two hundred children for all four of them they also found the child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids through these whole recalling phenomena and so in the. but he's arguing here that me should you know change those children to institutions but sometimes i think we need to take a bit more critical approach rather than promoting these rosy picture of international adoption and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up in untroubled biological families in the united states there is less maltreatment in all the studies that in which people keep track of maltreatment statistics so i'm not going to talk more about really days you can conduct the rest

the point of robert yates himself a former dci he argued that the 9/11 commission's dni would create essentially someone who would be unable to effectuate his will. indeed this was the view of almost all but one of the former directors of central intelligence who argued that the only way to increase centralized power in the intelligence community would be to give him more authority and more bureaucracies to directly control and not to subtract from this authority by separating these community management functions, these core dating functions from the cia, from langley virginia. finally another camp and this is interesting because of the two people were and the issues they would come to hold. they argued without the knowledge of secretary rumsfeld ironically enough that the national security agency and the national geospatial agency at the very least these two factors of intelligence now we know very well through the constant revelations in the newspaper, they argued that the dni would be indeed feckless unless they had authority, direction and control over these massive intelligence

that point i would like to ask a question on the style of l g b t advocacy because many people would argue that this very persistent somewhat aggressive style of. advocacy is actually hurting gay people in russia because many russians when they hear you hear those calls to boycott the olympics they actually have pro gay and lesbians ascii because they believe that the west is all out on russia because of all all those concerns and i would argue that it's not making the lives of algebra to community here any easier i was born gay you know when i was growing up when i was a child i didn't put sexuality to you know my you know my identity i mean that's where i'll ask my straight friends you know well when did you choose to be straight. it's not a choice we're born this way it's a human right it's a birthright to love and be loved. and you know that's that's just my feeling what i've been saying all along is there is a gay child born in russia every day and who's protecting that child these injury propaganda laws were passed to chew quote unquote protect children from the propaganda i don't i

they'll argue for lower points on the scale of the federal sentencing guidelines and they may argue forpping the points, i would be surprised if he had less than 15 years, possibly 20. >> thank you very much for rejoining us. coming up on "america tonight." >> i know what violence does. i know the consequences of violence. i see what women do through, and how long it takes to recover from one incident of violence. >> seeing red - a call to rise for justice. a powerful valentine's day movement next. >> every sunday night, join us for excusive... revealing... and surprising talks, with the most interesting people of our time. hip hop pioneer russell simmons talks with soledad o'brien >> i make mistakes everyday, i don't try to count them... >> about his music.... >> the artist should say what's on people's minds. >> his cause... dominion over the animals does not mean abuse... >> and his future... >> i wanna make movies and tv shows that reflect the new america. >> russell simmons up close and personal... talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera you know her as the author ever "the vagina mo

one of these distinctions that then personal and collective was eradicated so i think what you're arguing for it comes from a totally different add these this american notion that you know nothing personal just business but i think blending the two would be just as difficult as blending any all there it's your extremes but i think it's. it's interesting that we're getting away from that notion of phrases such as it's not personal it's just business to me business is the most intensely human activity you know it impacts people's lives not only their livelihood but it impacts their state of mind their state of being their sense of satisfaction so i think the fact that there is a predisposition in this culture to connect personal and professional i think actually plays in favor of of of this in society being more receptive to a conscious business because those businesses very much care about the whole person . well you're not alone there are certain areas i think for businesses caring about those people are as individuals it simply makes it easier for some of the employees to put personal in

you said you want to argue both sides. i'll argue both sides. is a culture out there that has grown up with this and feel like guns are part of their heritage. not part of my background, but i understand that. what we're talks about is what's the common sense here that you can't operate a deli meat slicer, can't buy a lottery ticket, but why is it you're willing to allow these kids to operate guns? >> there are places in the country where car culture is an incredibly powerful thing and everyone gets their driver's license at 16 and everyone has an old beat up car they get and they're comparing their cars and all go hang out. we also recognize a car is a dangerous thing and don't give them out willy-nilly to children. >> interestingly enough, andy fink who i interview in the piece, he has a sports shooting team in boise, idaho. he said, i didn't even set the trap for him, he said on his own accord, i wouldn't get in the car with my own 7-year-old. >> right. >> well, okay. that begs the question then, why would you let the 7-year-old have the gun?

we're not going to argue that point. but you say there is just no chance.that this -- could there have been a chance it was rigged and he didn't know about it? >> no. because he was beating sunny liston and he knew his talent. you could say, well, the evidence -- but the empirical evidence was that he was beating this man, and he continued to beat everyone, even including george foreman. >> which you happened to be a part. >> yes, i happened to be part of that. but that was a strong man. george foreman was a phenomenal fighter. so liston was a hard punch, er. you've got to understand. at that time, all due respect. people of color were always going to be investigated. you didn't have to worry about that. civil rights movement -- >> there is all kinds of evidence that j. edgar hoover investigated all kind -- >> anything. that's why -- he had a book. he had a book, john. >> let me talk to you about the second fight, though. because this idea that fights can be rigged, even fights with ali and liston, that's nothing new. the second match a year later, there wa

so it's quite possible these were provocateurs well i mean you can argue are about who actually did that but one thing for sure is that in many of these municipalities protestors are now in control so they're calling the shots or if a synagogue is attacked once they arrive in power then maybe they have something to do with that oh i think you're stretching you're stretching for a reason to target to try the protesters are so unfortunate maybe i am indeed stretching but i would like to draw want to be sorich parallel ukraine have previous strong used to have pretty strong ties with libya under the again after regime in ukraine in nurses ukrainian doctors used to worry there and i remember when the events in libya were unfolding there was the narrative was pretty much the same that it's a genuine democratic uprising sure there were some radical forces within the opposition but once they get alfie is ousted those militia will laid down arms they will no longer be part of conventional politics and that obviously didn't happen how can you be sure that those some of those radicals some of thos

yes it is certainly complex and the key psychological difference between the west and russia i would argue is that the west as usual hopes for the best and russia as usual fears the worst and probably there are in democratically inspired protesters and i think we can also agree that there are some radical forces the question is of course. you know what is the share percentage of of each of the group and what i would like to ask is if russia is proven wrong and this revolution this uprising is all about democracy then i guess maybe we'll all benefit but what if the west is proven wrong and those ultra nationalist and to semitic forces prevail would that be to the detriment of all the parties involved have you ever heard of george orwell absolutely one hundred eighty four yes george orwell said. totalitarian politics or characterized by the use of smear words like if you semitic and extreme ultra nationalist we have not seen actions of an ultra nationalist or for that matter of an anti semitic could well enjoy jazz if they as a synagogue was attacked in the ukraine it is part of public recor

brings me back to the idea of communism and comparing it with capitalism because you know you could argue that one of the main reasons why communism failed is because it ultimately refused to recognize the complexity of human nature and the underlying promise of communism was that if you serve others that will improve your own wellbeing now capitalism stars from an opposite and that if you serve yourself that will also improve society even without any deliberate efforts and. i wonder if. something like this what you are proposing. could only be implemented in a country with a fairly strong legal system with a low crime rate and ultimately more or less harmonious society because if you live in their dog you don't you know people will inevitably take advantage of your i think there may well be some some truth to that i think definitely when you have high social capital in the society which means people have trust in institutions they trust in the laws they can believe in contracts this property rights all those kinds of things then it enables this form of transacting of this form of commerc

>> lawyers representing the state, they argued this morning that children are better off with hetero sexual parents and they strongly believe that the 2004 ban on gay marriage here supports that motion. now this is a case that centers on a lesbian couple p. they filed this lawsuit after learning they couldn't jointly adopt their three children. this is an issue that has brute out people from both sides you can see some of the protestors still here behind me, joining me now is pastor rex evans with first free will baptist church. and this is a case that you have been following for quite some time. >> that's correct. yes, we became aware of this about the time they decided to take it to court in the summertime. >> what is your position on this. seven well, we are for traditional marriage. and we are taking the stand that the state of michigan is taking, and that the bible speaks of. and the bible clearly says marriage is between one man and one woman. there's a very good chance that michigan could be the next state. >> yes. >> your take on all the attention this case has gotten so far?

i would argue there was a change in the legislation as to how these permits got issued because there was a contentious issue. every permit should be looked at and scrutinized carefully. if it was not approved for any reason, i would argue that that location shouldn't be approved under the spirit of mobile food trucks parking in front of existing brick and mortar restaurants. there is harvey's is literally across the street from it, there is a pizza place in one corner. it's a mideastern place and taco place. all of these places are paying property taxes and payroll taxes and the mobile food trucks they pull up during prime times and skim the profits and skim the customers and they are not paying taxes and not paying for anything. i would argue that any permit there should be denied and if it's just the letter of the law to do this, i think we need to protect businesses. >> have you filed objections with regard to this particular site? >> this particular site i wasn't aware of until the last meeting. my partners and i have been in action to discuss what these are as far as the plan of

. >> and the lawyer who argued roe v. wade 41 years ago is here with an update on some of the challenges of that landmark case she won. >>> brand new security measures are also now in effect for those traveling to russia for the olympic games. the tsa is banning liquids in flights to russia. the ban is going to last for the next 30 days and includes most aeros aerosols, gels, powders, and liquids. meanwhile, president obama just weighed in on these ongoing terror threats in sochi. it's an exclusive interview with nbc's bob costas and the president stresses the u.s.'s coordination with russia. >> i think the russians have an enormous stake, obviously, in preventing any kind of a terrorist act or violence at these venues, and they have put a lot of resources into it. we're in constant communications with them, both at the law enforcement level, at the military level, at the intelligence levels. >> all of this, of course, is happening on the backdrop of the opening ceremony, set to begin in less than an hour. our own chris j