does that in my way change your mind about michael boggs? >> no.osition he had all along. i don't think he's changed. i think his voice may have toned down, but the meaning of his words and his position against same-sex marriage is the same. his position cannot change on his record on a flag and his record on civil rights. he doesn't deserve to have a life-long position on the federal bench. and i'm sorry the president had appointed him. i understand his need to compromise, but i think it was a mistake and i hope -- i'm glad john made it clear of where his position was. because he was a little fuzzy from perspective of some of his colleagues. but now he's clear, all is well that ends well. and i'm grateful for his statement. >> indeed after senator diane feinstein indicated she believed congressman lewis was okay with the nomination, that he'd come to support it, his fellow member of congress tweeted in response to that story saying if lewis approved of that deal, he betrayed african-americans, women, and gays. it was a harsh response. do you think

boggs. i know, mr. boggs, you were a judge for how long? >> ten years. >> obviously there's a lot of understandable questions about the positions that he took as a candidate and in the legislature on joyce and civil rights and marriage equality. did you rule on any of those cases when you were a judge? cases involving those issues. >> as a tall court judge in georgia's highest level of trial courts, i didn't have jurisdiction to rule on constitutional questions if that's your question. as a judge on eating meat appellate court in georgia for the last two and half years with limited constitutional jurisdiction, specifically only deal with the constitution as applied and what it was applied in an unconstitutional fashion. jurisdiction in constitutional cases by side with our superior supreme court. >> could you talk about your judicial philosophy, how your personal views have shaped that philosophy? >> i don't know my personal views have shaped my philosophy. my experiential views as having been a judge for 10 years has shaped my philosophy.

thank you. >> judge boggs? >> thank you, members of the committee, for the opportunity to be here today. i would like to thank chairman lay he or arranging for this meeting. i'm very proud and appreciative to the president for nominating me. i also want to thank senator chambliss and senator isaacson for the warm introduction and for the support throughout this process. i have with me today my wife of 15 years on thursday, although i'm not sure a trip to d.c. is what she had in mind for a gift. she was the teacher of the year last year for our school district, and i get a quite a it of encouragement from her. i am honored to have two special guests from the judiciary from georgia to me. seated from behind me is hugh thompson and the chief judge of the court of appeals, the court on which i serve, and i am honored. these are both mentors of mine and very astute members of the judiciary and well-respected members of the judiciary in our state. i am honored to have two very good friends, richard hyde is here with

i do have some questions for judge boggs. i know that mainly -- the rest of you should feel good about that. that is what i am saying. you should feel very happy about that. judge boggs, i had the opportunity to meet you a couple of weeks ago. i enjoyed that meeting. i believe that judges can decide things by, you know, in the proper way even if they have had a record before of votes when they are in the legislature that are contrary to constitutional -- what has been decided constitutionally. i don't want a situation where we cannot ever have people confirmed because they had some public record on something. i think that is a bad tendency. that is a bad tendency to do that. so, i think that -- because a judge's role is to make decisions based on what the law is. not take their personal opinions, although, personal opinions or experience do shape how a judge invariably has to. experience is the law in many ways for judges. i think it is important we have to factor that in but we cannot establish a system here where just looki

we just heard it there, listening to boggs at this hearing. some of these issues, gay marriage comes to mind. a lot of people have changed the past ten years. if you are going to hold it a lot of democrats ten years ago were supporting banning gay marriage. his answer was weird. he said i may or may not have changed on that. he's leaving it out there for democrats to read the best of intentions but he's not really saying he's changed on it. there's this whole other, talk about the abortion doctors and named posted online. he says it was a mistake. he gave his answer on the battle flag. al franken was inconsistent. dianne feinstein said it's hard to see who this guy is. >> it's normal to be vague about policy positions. itis standard in judicial hearings. what's remarkable about this and why democrats are so resist tent is they feel we have a democratic senate and president, we ought to be able to get justices on the bench. i think that's the reason for the resistance. if they are angry, be angry with pat leahy. this seems dumber to me than wai

patton boggs has also agreed to pay chevron $15 million.bloomberg businessweek reports the firm's retreat is highly unusual and possibly unprecedented. it could be linked to patton boggs current effort to merge with a larger firm amidst a series of financial woes. has arrested an fbi agent on charges of trying to bring weapons onto a civilian passenger plane. joel cox reportedly tried to board a flight carrying bullets and a knife in his luggage. revived memories of raymond davis, the cia agent who shot dead two people in pakistan in 2011. davis was released after compensation was paid to the victims families. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to our viewers and listeners around the country and world. even committee on torture question the vatican this week over its handling of sexual abuse inside catholic church. the hearing came just four months after under the human body, the committee on rights of child, accused the vatican

i do have some questions for judge boggs. i know that mainly -- the rest of you should feel good about that. that is what i am saying. you should feel very happy about that. judge boggs, i had the opportunity to meet you a couple of weeks ago. i enjoyed that meeting. i believe that judges can decide things by, you know, in the proper way even if they have had a record before of votes when they are in the legislature that are contrary to constitutional -- what has been decided constitutionally. i don't want a situation where we cannot ever have people confirmed because they had some public record on something. i think that is a bad tendency. that is a bad tendency to do that. so, i think that -- because a judge's role is to make decisions based on what the law is. not take their personal opinions, although, personal opinions or experience do shape how a judge invariably has to. experience is the law in many ways for judges. i think it is important we have to factor that in but we cannot establish a system here where just looki

> based on the tenure as state trial and appellant court record, the president believes that judge boggs is qualified and should be confirmed. >> kelly o'donnell joins us, and also the president says that the nomination had to be put in context that it was part of a compromise with republicans. >> it is one of the headlines that does have an interesting back story. we have seen over the last couple years how there is tension of moving the president's nominations for a variety of positions, and judgeships in particular have been hot button and how to break through it? well, over time, you have had bargaining if you will with the senators who could support a conservative democrat like michael boggs so you have johnny issacson and saxby chambliss, and those republicans with the president at the outreach deal, and if you are nominate a pre preapproved judges who are supported by democrats and republicans, they would not use their powers as senators to block the nominations. so classic negotiation, and one that would have given the appearance of sailing through, and then john lewis who has su

i would like to begin, judge boggs, with some questions. if i look to the responses to the committee's questionnaire, i noted that there were no texts of remarks from a no speech drafts, notes, anything in writing of that kind. over the course of your very long career in public life, and you never deliver a prepared speech? did you never submit for example to the judiciary committee when you served in the state legislature in prepared remarks? >> thank you. it was not the practice of myself while i was serving for the four years in the general simply to speak regularly before committees. in fact the only occasions i had to do that were on those that i had authored. i never spoke to any committee of the house or senate on any bill that i did not offer other than a bill that meant i had to testify before the senate on a matter pretty if it is not the practice of the general assembly then and now that witnesses submit any written comments are testimony, and indeed that was not my practice. i typically spoke extraneous lee -- extemporaneously.

. >> michael boggs attacked from the left. >> when he was a state lawmaker in georgia, he was prettyonservative on gay rights and the confederate flag. part of the deal that he made with some republican senators, it has progressives up in arms for a long time who have been frustrated with the president when has to do with judicial picks. a situation where you no longer have to deal with the filibuster. a conservative judge this week, chairman of the judiciary committee, saying he has not heard from the white house. and harry reid saying he is not sure if he will bring it to the floor for the vote. >> let me ask about general shinseki. >> the allegations look pretty bad. he testified this week saying he is mad as hell. the white house chief said that there is no one angrier than the president. there are parallels here to obamacare and raises competency issues with the government there. and the administration, the white house, for the time being standing by the cabinet secretary. the allegations that veterans died while they were waiting for treatment and also allegations they were coo

would you vote against michael boggs? >> well, not at this stage. i want to meet with him, i want to talk with him. i want him to go through the committee hearings first. i did do that. i think the questions are very apparent. i know he has some very strong support, even in the african-american community in the state of georgia. i have spoken to john lewis about him in the house and i have great respect for john lewis who felt that this was a good ticket. i've got to do my own due diligence and when i'm ready, i'll vote. >> i want to move you on, lots of conversation this week about hillary clinton and her health, brought up which karl rove, top republican strategist certainly to former president bush. he talked about her, her accident when she had a blood clot and was hospitalized. even president clinton said it took six months to get over this. when you look at that argument, when you look at the benghazi argument, when you look at a number of things coming up along the way, what does it tell you about the nature of the battle coming up in 2016, s

and with good reason there is boggs doesn't exactly have a stellar track record to settle east in factas a georgia state lawmaker he voted in favor of keeping the confederate insignia on the georgia state flag lovely but even more shocking was his support of a radical amendment that would have made it easier for anti abortion activists to target abortion providers according to ny roll pro-choice advocacy group when boggs was a legislator he quote voted in favor of an anti choice amendment that would have required internet accessible profiles of doctors to include the numbers of abortion procedures the doctor provided in the previous ten years. effects of such a measure could put physicians at risk wow so why on earth would obama nominate such a backward thinking judge and first place because of a little tricky measure allowed by senate judiciary chairman patrick leahy which grants state senators the authority to veto the president's judicial nominees in their home state which would leave the position vacant this resulted in georgia senator saxby chambliss and johnny telling obama that

all but considering the nationwide attack on women and minority rights it's easy to imagine how if boggs nomination goes through is a lifetime presence on a high court will pete social progress yeah i'm pretty sure no judge at all would be a better option now let's break the set. it was a. very hard thing. to. do that had to act with the earthquake there. was. this week the fears of top climate scientists were confirmed the collapse of the western antarctic ice ice sheet is already underway and according to two separate studies conducted by the university of washington and nasa it appears unstoppable the ice sheets collapse will result in a shocking as to made a thirteen foot rise in sea levels and mount the gulf coast all regions around the world transforming the earth as we know it today and although the estimated rise is not expected to call made for centuries to come these reports arrive on the heels of a number of concern in studies about the current rate of rising sea levels and one person has been on the cusp of this research dr brenna book wise old words all i wrote that i got it

. >> [ inaudible question ] boggs. >> the sorters questions i will deal with this afternoon.ests. we need to concentrate on the relationship moving forward. those particular issues relating to my statement yesterday, i will deal with it later. >> [ inaudible question ] hob. t >> they have decided it should be mandatory and it is not mandatory, i know some airlines provide this on their own. from my position, any airline does not wait for a safety authority based. >> maybe one ordimac more questions. >> [ inaudible question ] >> the minister is going to handle the preliminary report. let me just say at the moment we should be focused totally on the search. need to continue the search. we owe it to the families, and to the public around the world that we continue this search so we can get to the bottom of what happened to mh-370. la . >> [ inaudible question ] >> first, it is not a small area. second night, we have been detecting and thirdly, these are the attempts we had. just based on moore or two pinners. other areas we are discussing. that has been consistent. get the exper

one of whom is michael boggs, conservative democrat who is opposed by pretty much every single liberalest group, for good reasons. he voted to create choose life license plates and tighten restrictions on minors seeking abortion. and to keep the confederate insignia on the georgia state flag. the other is david barren, he's being opposed by democratic senators, code pink, the aclu and senator rand paul. they're making a simple request. when barren worked in the justice department's office of legal counsel, he co-authored a legal memo that provided the basis for the u.s. government to target and kill u.s. citizen al awaki. they want that memo and others that he authored released. whether or not you agree with the memo on constitutional grounds, i can think of no reason the logic contained therein should be kept secret. senator rand paul in today's "new york times" said, legal arguments that affect the rights of every american should not have the privilege of secrecy. that may be true or not, but we don't know without seeing the memo. the request for transparency is absolutely right, and

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and i can't think of a better person to probably do that with than baseball great third baseman wade boggs doing the play -- i mean, you are doing "godzilla." the movie's there. do you have an understudy? do you have someone that's also like a great actor? it could be anyone. >> do you have an idea of who that might be? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i don't know. it could be anyone. it could be al pacino. it could be robert de niro. it could be patrick duffy. [ laughter ] [ scattered applause ] anyone at all? >> well because patrick duffy played that man-imal, right. he played in a series where he had webbed feet all the time. and he badonkadonk. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: that was -- [ cheers and applause ] that's not an indian name. that's not an indian name. >> hey, that was his name. >> jimmy: you tried to make badonkadonk into -- make it -- [ laughter ] oh my god. you know what? let's a role clip and then we'll go out and get some crab legs. [ laughter ] here we go. "godzilla" everybody. >> we're heading back. let's go. oh my god. >> no there's been a breach. we have him back to the

with two proposed nominees set to be considered tomorrow, one of whom is georgia state judge michael boggs is o'owe posed by pretty much every single liberal interest group. he voted to choose life license plates and tighten restrictions on minors seeking abortions, and to keep the confederate insignature nia on the state flag. the other judicial knock any is david baron, opposed by a coalition that includes code pink, the aclu, and senator rand paul. they're making a fairly simple request. when baron worked in thity department's office of legal council he coauthored a memo that provided a legal basebays for the u.s. government to target and kill anwar a.l. -- aulaqi. the bipartisan coalition of senators wants the memo and the other ones released. whether or not you agree with the memo on constitutional grounds i can think of no conceivable reason the logic contained thin should be kept secret from americans and yet that's exactly what this administration has done. summaries of the memo have leak and the obama administration to make only that one memo available to the senators that want to

the last thing the massachusetts republican party needs is to have their gubernatorial candidate bogg primary battle with the tea party guy, who's going to drag the whole conversation to the right and into crazytown. but the tea party will not let it go. the tea party candidate has sued the state republican party over wanting that spot on the primary ballot. his lawsuit was set to go to trial this june. and the republicans in massachusetts have been trying to work this out behind closed doors, but then yesterday, the amazing news broke that the tea party guy has offered to drop his whole lawsuit if only the state republican party will pay him $1 million. to which the lawyer for the state party responded, no. massachusetts republican party's attorney explained to the tea party guy's attorney, quote, i advised you and your client, as well as my own clients, that in layman's terms, buying people off the ballot is illegal. according to press reports, the tea party guy's attorney responded to that by essentially saying, okay, so it can't be a million bucks. how about $650,000? we will nego

. >> ed boggs is on the press this morning calling on an osborne. >> they want to use these macro financial tools. or limit loanss to income ratios on mortgage terms, nothing new. norway has done it. they limited high valued mortgages to 10% of mortgage lending. the big issue is in the u.k. we have a supply problem. a supply problem where they should be building around 200,000 houses a year and a only building 100,000 a year. the u.k. -- the microwave is on. the bank of england cannot build houses of the need to come to demand. >> thank you very much. stay with us this morning -- we will break down the u.k. unemployment report, the inflation report, and the unemployment data. all of that is coming up later on bloomberg. now, what one hand gives, the other one takes away which is what is happening in china. many analysts predict a stock market rally but it has the opposite impact. john joins us love him -- from hong kong. the market has slowed down. is that a fair assessment? >> for the time being, it certainly is the fact. the economic slowdown, the property slump, home sales are at 80% in

they had a flat last week over a federal judge in georgia by the name of michael boggs, who the presidentnominated. so that kind of through a whole deal the white house had str that through whole deal of the white house had struck through that into contention. >> host: lot to watch and we will have coverage of the white house as well. go to c-span.org for all the details. managing editor of the ill, jim kuhn in, house reporter with the associated press. thank you both. pga tour time. >> won the next washington journal we will get an update on the justice department announcement that it was indicting by chinese military officers for computer hacking. we will talk to ben fitzgerald of the center for a new american security. then, a conversation with dr. michael bell of the centers for disease control and prevention about the potential threat of some adrs virus. it will take your phone call on the prairies is and take -- join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> c-span newest book sundays at 8:00, a collection of interviews from 25 years of book notes and q&a conversations. >> at tha

72, it was a national story, obviously, when congress and baegich along with majority leader hale boggs, were lost in a small plane crash and no one has ever found the plane wreckage. 39%, only 39% of alaskans were actually born in alaska. many of them have no memory of this whatsoever. this taught an important history lesson that tied mark b egich to alaska in a way that rate was very palatable. the presentation of the in various forms and over many generations. host: this is going to be a year that citizens united will be fully in place. we will see an influx of outside groups spending money on some of the most important races in the country. guest: absolutely. they are almost all negative. there is an occasional positive spot from those groups but mainly it is negative, vicious character rending advertising, they are responsible to nobody. their job is to destroy the opposition. it is very negative. in my piece," i focus on -- mips in -- in my piece in "politico," i focus on positive advertising, this is the season for it. most of the challengers in races that have determined the par

they had a flat last week over a federal judge in georgia by the name of michael boggs, who the presidentinated. so that kind of through a whole deal the white house had struck with georgia's republican senators with questions over judges. >> we will watch this week and we will have coverage at the white house as well. bob husak, managing editor of the hill, white house reporter with the associated press. thank you both. josh, who will join us next. , who will join us next. later, your money series continues with a look at the u.s. taxpayer dollars with the international monetary fund. first am a news update from c-span radio. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> p williams of nbc news reports this hour the justice department has filed criminal charges against chinese officials. this is the first time the united states has wrought cyber espionage charges against a state actor. details on the charges will be .nnounced by eric holder you can hear it on c-span radio or watch it on c-span. the russian president, vl

michael boggs is his name.ncerns about his views on abortion, views on gray gaye rights, twice voted to keep the confederate flag on the state legislature. did the white house not do this? did they not do enough work with the white house to get the support? >> i heard from two this morning that said that he has bipartisan support. they indicated that ultimately he is going to get through but he's going to need all the republicans and two democrats on the judiciary committee. look, this is emblematic of the larger problem the president has had with progressives in the judicial nominees. they think he has been too willing to compromise. you would think he could get thoou through the progressive judges but still he's nominating conservative judges. it shows they haven't mastered the nomination process here. >> in the state of georgia in particular where they think they can pick up a senate seat, might be competitive in the judges race. this timing is bizarre. >> georgia is a tough state when you're a democrat. you

judge michael boggs was recommended to the president by senators isakson and chambliss as part of a compromisemocrat questioned his views on confederate flag, abortion right, civil rights. will the president stand by and demand this vote or pull this? i asked this in the context of this is a federal judgeship. michelle nunn could be the victim of this if african-americans in georgia are mad at the president and don't come out and turn out and vote in high numbers this year she loses. >> they're weighing both sides of this right now. this is really a fascinating insight though into how washington works. you've had the president of the united states having huge issues getting judges through capitol hill. hes goes and decides to try to work with republicans in georgia, make sure the two senators there back this nominee. and now he's having problems with democrats getting the nominee through. so they say you want us to work together, you want us to reach across the aisle and then this is the result. sometimes when you actually do that. >> think maybe they should have done this in an odd year, not

michael boggs that president obama nominated for the georgia appeals court who. is who. he voted to pass a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage he voted to keep the confederate insignia on the georgia state flag he voted to require doctors who perform abortions supports their names and the number of abortions they perform on line. these are you know just a few of these things. john lewis on the other hand the congressman from georgia. said i'm not you know this because the president put this guy up i'm not going to be a good democrat go along he said this is in direct opposition to everything i've stood for during my entire career it's very very easy as i've worked tirelessly to rid george of the south in this nation from the stain of racial discrimination in any form including the display of confederate emblem in the georgia state flag so i'm not going to change their position now so we find this really interesting we talk about schism in the republican party i mean here you've got the democratic party in the administration because obama was willing to com

we also had a bit of a flap last week over a federal judge in georgia by the name of michael boggs who the president nominated and harry reid withdrew his support of box because of comments and positions you take and when was a state representative regarding the confederate flag and abortion. so that kind come through the whole deal the white house had struck with georgia's republican senators and the question over judge. >> host: a lot to watch this week and, of course, we will have coverage of the white house as well. go to c-span.org for all the details. bob cusack, managing editor of the hill. thank you both. appreciate your time. >> guest: thank you, greta. >> live to capitol hill for missouri senator claire mccaskill holding a first of several discussions on fighting rape and sexual assault on college campuses. >> today as you know we'll focus on the clarity and save act and talk to you about the challenges that those rules and regulations present. two weeks from today we will cover title ix. and in four weeks from today we will cover both the administrator process that's been a