bork's reasons. here's another example. the year after he left the solicitor general's office, bob bork represented a credit card issuer in a suit about usury. the credit card carried a rate of interest that was legal in the state where the bank had itt headquarters, but illegal in l some states where customers used the card. the issuing bank was sued by a rival bank in a low interest state, and this rival contended that the issuer was using its location to do injury to the rival by stealing customers. the rival got the first argument, and for 30 minutes everything seemed to be going its way. the rival's lawyer got one softball question after another. then bob bork stood up. he opened not with a legal argument, but with an observation about economics. if the issuing bank really was charging excessive interest, interest high or than the rival bank was allowed to charge, it was doing a favor for the rivals. consumers should flock to the rivals and pay less. now, maybe the issuing bank was charging high

the by taking bork's part. if this assures us that things will work better this time than it did for special prosecutors in the past it would create an unacceptable conflict of interest. prosecutors usually are disinterested. it preserves the role of the president even if the president and senate have been excluded in the appointment process that is not what the constitution says. well, it wasn't our troubled history with special prosecutors. they changed my mind to the justice scalia perspective. it was a recognition that the constitution is formed but it includes about the structure that we had. that is part of today's view. leavy, bork and justice scalia can be credited with changing our jurisprudence. i cannot close out without one final vignette without one post-solicitor general yours. your member he was mocked for saying during his 1987 hearings that he wanted to be on the supreme court because it would be an intellectual feast. [inaudible] i would like to leave a reputation as a judge that understood co

so bob bork saved justice by staying. had he quit in protest, he probably would have been treated as a national hero and confirmed to the supreme court in 1987. perhaps he would have been appointed by president ford in 1976 to the seat that went to john paul stevens. he was on the list that edward levy sent to president ford of possibilities. but had he quit, the nation as a whole would have suffered. so he stayed in office, in the sg's office. he was so determined not to benefit that he turned down an opportunity to be appointed as attorney general, he turned down the chance to work from the attorney general's more elegant office, he avoided the attorney general's private dining room, and he even turned down the attorney general's chauffer and limousine during the time he was acting attorney general. i can't say much more about those times. today occupied the last six months of 1973, and i did not arrive in the solicitor general's office until mid 1974. but everything bob bork says in his book he said in 1974 too. richar

pornography and we must act to stem this growing to our right because in the words or judge robert bork it incites perverted murder i mean it it just destroys. you know what what god made as a beautiful thing and turns it into something ugly and and and. and sort of primal you don't have the right to to. my penis the first image was not there to corrupt people in america with you know productive free and and horrible violence and you know sexual violence and the things that are going on out there that's not a protected right thing. that really is that is they say well gert martin hald the author of the latest study tells us news that pornography is not as bad as the bad wolf as we thought it was and maybe we should just focus on other factors so does this big bad wolf have any teeth to speak of will help me explore this issue i was doing earlier by adult film performer tosh arraign and i asked her what she thought if there's a link between porn and a person's sexual behavior if anything i think that the person sexual behavior has a link to the pornography that they watch so i am type of

here by mr bork is what will happen in the bank we have our knives out. do you think it is this right to spend staying there together here in a situation where being i don't even talk about the surveillance we. you know. if you're going to cover seeing anything like that. pakistan's elections took place last week resulting in the water sharif of the pakistan muslim league returning to leave the country as prime minister for a third time after being exiled so now that the elections are over the world watching the sea of sharif leadership will work to cut us puppet strings in the deadly drone wars in the country here to give us some more insight on the ground in pakistan of the vote protests and u.s. pakistani relations moving forward as our teams on the. things that largely calmed down since the elections with the majority of the people here really excited about the vote turnout was at a record sixty percent and we did see people really enthusiastic about it in the streets but there was violence although in a country of one hundred eighty to one hundred ni

vile pornography and we must act to stem this going to our right because in the words are drug robert bork it incites perverted. i mean it it just destroys. you know what what god made as a beautiful thing and turns it into something ugly and and. and sort of primal you don't have the right to to. my penis the first amendment was not there to corrupt people in america with you know put our graffiti and and horrible violence and you know sexual violence and things that are going on out there that's not a protected right to martin. but is that really as bad as they say well for gert martin hall the author of the latest study she tells us news that pornography is not the big and bad wolf as we thought it was and maybe we should focus on other factors so does this big bad wolf have any teeth to speak of well to help me explore this issue i'm joined now by adult film performer touched a range. so high tashi so that report that came out of the netherlands do you think that what they said is happening in the u.s. does pornography have a link to a person's sexual behavior or do you think if anythi

circuit court being a feeder to the supreme court, remember a guy named robert bork that reagan tried to get on there and he was blocked. democrats want to preserve the ability to block something like that. >> but i don't think he was blocked by a filibuster maneuver. i think ari did they have a vote on bourke? wasn't a filibuster. >> i don't think so. >> he was just defeated. >> the audience will have it googled by the time we finish the conversation. >> it is an important court that feeds into the supreme court. the problem is even nominees that have bipartisan support, like the one most recent nominee from the obama administration that was just empanelled whose name i would butcher, he was overwhelmingly supported once he got to a vote. but you have three vacancies. and republicans are actually accusing the administration of trying to pad the court by filling the three remaining vacancies. that's insane. it is the president's prerogative to try to fill the vacancies, it is something he is supposed to try to do. >> pack the court is a phrase that republicans get very excited about b

the high level officials bork aware of this and try to change the criteria. they are being asked multiple questions by members of congress, and they don't reveal anything about the problems that are -- that were going on, and i think that's where the first serious problem is going to be. you're going to see congressional committees saying, hey, we wrote you multiple letters about this. we asked you questions about it. you wrote us back, and there's like three or four letters from the acting commissioner talking about the lengthy and painstaking process the irs uses for evaluating these sorts of applications, and there's not a whiff of a mention we've got a serious problem on our hands. >> even though those officials answering those questions, we now know, had been briefed on this problem happening at the lower level in the agency, right? >> exactly. look, you highlighted the part that the white house is certainly going to seize on which is that they did this in cincinnati on their own, but the idea that government bureaucrats operate in a vacuum without knowl

it happened to robert bork in 1987, and the threat that it was going to happen to harriet miers in 2005ent george w. bush withdraw her name from consideration. so you're looking at a qualified for the job, judicial philosophy that you agree with, age, you may also consider the diversity of the court, or some other factors like that. but always on your mind has to be can they be confirmed? and you can guess at that but it is kind of a mystery, right? you can never know if they can be confirmed unless and until you try to confirm them. as this president looks at the skofrt, he looks at the justices and their ages, you know justice age 80, justice age 77, 76, 74, the president has to be looking at the court and thinking, man, if only i could grab someone who was qualified who could do the job, whose judicial philosophy i agree with, who is young. if only i could take somebody like that and test-fire them in the senate. if only there was some way to know if advance that if i pick this kid for the supreme court the senate could confirm. only if there was a way to test that. there is a way to

when you were a kid to watch somebody get up, they complaining and grumpy and don't want to go to bork watt the do it because they have obligations. that's what you learn by having a father in the houston, and one thing i talk about it also affects the girls. a girl will immediate a map and if the man shows some sort of affection she embraces the guy and if he is a bad guy, too bad for her so it affect girls as well. >> host: larry elder worked for a laundry room and this next call froms from ohio. hi, bobby. >> caller: hi, mr. elder. i have a question for you. regards to the comments you made about rg3 and the article about him being called an uncle tom. why would you say the person saying that would be republican. wouldn't democrat says something like that? i'm a republican and i don't feel that way towards rg3. i'm curious why you said that. >> guest: you either misunderstood what i said or i said it badly. what i said was the espn guy criticized rg3 because he thought rg3 was a republican. you said there's a rumor he is a republican itch don't know about that. he was a white fiance

bob bork conducted many conferences not only to settle flights within the government but also to hear presentations by private counsel. is one of the office extraditions that anyone, litigant, potential curious i can be heard by the solicitor general personally before the united states filed a brief in the supreme court. bob prepared carefully and asked tough questions at these meetings. as he said in the book, he tried to could vance positions of the executive branch, not his own views. i never saw him favor his own position and never saw him misunderstand an argument. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. journalist charles more presents an authorized biography of the late prime minister margaret thatcher. in brotherhood, diamonds, destiny and the american dream, a professor at harvard medical school, recall the immigration to the united states from india. sociology professor at cambridge university and sam davis, assistant professor of medicine at stanford prevention research center present their res

the by taking bork's part. if this assures us that things will work better this time than it did for special prosecutors in the past it would create an unacceptable conflict of interest. prosecutors usually are disinterested. it preserves the role of the president even if the president and senate have been excluded in the appointment process that is not what the constitution says. well, it wasn't our troubled history with special prosecutors. they changed my mind to the justice scalia perspective. it was a recognition that the constitution is formed but it includes about the structure that we had. that is part of today's view. leavy, bork and justice scalia can be credited with changing our jurisprudence. i cannot close out without one final vignette without one post-solicitor general yours. your member he was mocked for saying during his 1987 hearings that he wanted to be on the supreme court because it would be an intellectual feast. [inaudible] i would like to leave a reputation as a judge that understood co