the high court ruled ashcroft did not violate kidd's constitutional rights.bama nominated john bryson to be secretary of commerce today. bryson is a former chairman and c.e.o. of edison international, an energy firm based in california. he also co-founded the natural resources defense council. the current commerce secretary, gary locke, has been tapped to become ambassador to china. wall street finished the month on a high note amid talk of a new financial bailout for greece. the dow jones industrial average gained 128 points to close at 12,569. the nasdaq rose 38 points to close at 2,835. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy >> woodruff: house republicans have staged a largely symbolic vote this evening on a bill ostensibly aimed at raising the nation's debt limit by an additional $2.4 trillion. the measure has no spending cuts attached to it and is, therefore, all but certain to fail. earlier today at a white house news briefing, press secretary jay carney said that deficit reduction talks between the administration and congress are

lightsource slowly resuming from suffolk street in airports and ashcroft much involved came sure the country's largest airports have suffered two days of cancellations as a result of the eruption cloud is expected to move to new zealand next apply to city disrupting the volcano in chile which had been dormant for decades not just in the fourth of june. hundreds of rioters have clashed with police and. a second glance of sectarian violence crowds hurled stones fireworks and actual bombs at police water cannons to men which comes from. watching season rhetoric or tensions between this traffic police and community is. argentina's president has announced he will stand for reelection and months of speculation over the future. cristina fernandez. succeeding her husband died of a heart attack last october often described. how gentle it was a couple of polls show the leader lacks majority support in the country but when the first round don't against a divided opposition. just a few minutes we have from the defenders of the breast fortress the soviet union's western right place to world war t

embreakaged and she has come from a fairly recent tradition in american public life and in john ashcroft this is the highest of someone from that background has reached in american power. >> is sarah palin still a factor in republican politics? >> absolutely. and i make the point that in ronald reagan years, since still 1957 and 23 years of reaching where he reached his moment of maximum impact so i think -- my hunch is that she will run but if she's well-advised she will spend a lot of time really preparing to lead a movement and that's what i think will happen in the years ahead. it could go another way but that's my best guess. >> did you spend time at the wasilla church that she extends? >> i did not but i did meet her one time. there are other books out there of people who spend a lot of time with her and have emails. i think i have the advantage of stepping back and certainly i've spoken to people in the campaign that have worked we are but i've written it from afar and researched from afar. >> what is bully pulpit books? >> we publish books on politics, pop culture, religion. we h

he has shown ashcroft -- ashcroft for yummy who had this up precisely so that we don't create that unsustainable wartime economy. i understand usaid and other donors have very taken steps, for example, to ensure they are not inflating salaries. i think that would be very important. you know, for example, the worst thing we can do in competing with the afghan government for talent. it meets all it can get in a lot more to function as a government. so that would be another key part of it. it is their country and how it goes forward is ultimately the responsibility and i want to establish myself as a reliable partner, but keeping the emphasis on sustainable development and transition, you know, which is what they themselves seek. and thirdly, i would say i can this last consultation with ambassador grossman and others -- where the light of international part nurse engaged in afghanistan. nato and non-nato united nations plays an important role in special representative of the secretary general performed the role in iraq cooperated closely with the name look forward to doing the same in afghanistan.

ashcroft was entitled to a qualified immunity from suit.hat is open code york times calls " on the supreme court decision. another story. the obama administration is expanding a program created by the new health care law, moved tuesday to make health care insurance more important -- affordable and a sensible. also out of libya, it says that colonel gaddafi is not backing down. he has refused to step down despite the protest against him in tripoli. his government was running out of food. the south african president after talks with the libyan leader. jamie, ato california, democratic caller. what did you make a last night's vote? caller: i wanted to comment. i believe that the republican party is absolutely sabotaging everything that the president is doing to get us back. our feet in the united states. i think that it is the selfish greed, and they should really pulled back and allow him to do the things and complete the accomplishments that he started. we need to get our economy back on track. host: what about spending cuts? would you agree

two years ago many asserted ashcroft against the oil above the standard for determining whether a complaint is sufficient to go forward with access to the courts and action needed. judicial sumner released a decision that in those two years there hasn't been an increase in general and solar right and employment discrimination cases, which were particular focus. we don't really know what these decisions are going to mean. thank you. >> thank you very much. the next witness is professor melissa hart at the university of colorado school of law. she specializes in employment discrimination and supreme court decision-making after graduating from harvard law school, justice jon paul stevens on the united states supreme court. and professor hart, good to have you here. >> chairman leahy, thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to talk today. i've been asked to focus on two cases, wal-mart against dukes in at&t against transfix and impacts on both access to justice and consequently on corporate accountability and corporate behavior. these cases are different in the context in which they arrived. tr

two years ago the ruling in ashcroft against it while commotion about the standard for whether a complaint is sufficient to let to go forward in federal court was claimed to dramatically restrict access to the courts and congressional action was needed to overturn the decision within analysis are meant to go, impact of those two years i had been increase in the rates of motion and generally especially employment discrimination cases which are a particular focus has a concern. this is just cautionary word you regard to what these decisions are going to need until we see a lower courts will interpret them. thank you. >> thank you very much. the next witness is professor melissa hart, teaches at the university of colorado school of law. she specializes in employment discrimination comes supreme court decision making. after from harvard law school, she played for justice jon paul stevens on the united states supreme court. professor hart, good to be here. >> chairman leahy, members of the committee can appreciate the opportunity to speak today. i've been asked to focus on two cases, wal-mart a

when john ashcroft said one day you're going to jail, there's ten million people out of status, that's not the answer. if you want to have this debate about immigration in the country, we should have it, but we can't keep kicking the can down the road. the 10 million number, and now is 12 million, and soon when my kids are my age, it's 50 million if we don't do something about it. the irish and british stood up and said enough is enough. 30,000 deaths is enough, stop it. you're not getting anywhere on that side of the issue. i think on the immigration that's where we are. if it's too hard, it's just going to get worse. do something about it. i take your point and you're right on a spectrum of those people. you are absolutely right, and others i have a little bit different thought. >> i just want to make two points, but one is what you're talking about what law enforcement does when there's an emergency a and the heat of passion, and a lot of people are going to get hurt from it. what we're talking about is a more strategic intelligent policing strategy informed by the community and bec