thanks for describing how you retraced your steps in writing the book "the brethren." i actually had a chance to read this book over the summer. i was curious, just now it sounded like you said you were actually able to interview some of the justices themselves, not only their clerks. would you be able to tell us which justices were forthcoming in your reporting of the, for the writing of "the brethren"? >> well, woodward and i have different feelings on this. woodward thinks when somebody dies, their privilege, if you will, that they attained by talking to us on deep background or off the record expires. i don't necessarily feel that way. i'll tell you what's in public. blackman acknowledged that he spent a long time with me and had some conversations, and the, there's a, the other justices, woodward had said stewart was helpful and then gets ambiguous. time periods in which i don't feel it's fair to comment. i can tell you one thing that was -- i got a call in the middle of reporting on it one morning from -- it was seeming to me as a reporter by then, and not gettin

that led to a job at the "washington post" and then later woodward and i did a book called "the brethren of the supreme court" and i continued on as a journalist. >> let me ask you about the final days. to me, it is the best record, but it's of course undocumented as is bob's style and it's held up remarkably well over the years as an account with some dispute from the nixon people about whether he was talking portraits in the final days or not as he roamed around the white house. how comfortable are you after all these years with the reporting that was done to gather that material? >> very comfortable. we did hundreds of interviews in-depth. talked to people several different times off the record, but we got as many documents as we could, and we basically reconstructed. it was much like the watergate investigation became after -- a certain point. a reconstruction of very detailed events so that we had multiple sources and multiple materials of each one. >> i happen to think the "brethren" by scott and bob woodward is one of the most remarkable pieces of journalism that goes inside the s

former populist brethren. he can't go back to the republican party because he is the enemy now. he kind of switches gears and goes more towards socialism. he ends up getting elected to the state senate where he serves until he dies. his major downfall was that he wasn't a good enough leader. i don't think he was able to be the voice of his party like he was the face of his party here in kansas. i don't think he controlled what his party did enough for him to really make some strong reforms that he had advocated for. >> i also feel like it is part of listening to the moderate voice that the extremes, no matter how passionate they may be, sometimes it is the moderate voice that wins over in the long-run. >>> this weekend, american history tv is featuring wichita, kansas. our local content vehicles recently visited wichita to learn about its rich history. learn more at c-span.o c-span.org-localcontent. >>> this week on the civil war, two historians discuss robert e. lee's leadership during the civil war. they consider his education, work as a general and his ability to maintain tro

with all due respect to our brethren in the press, it's always a good story to write about bad behavior that may happen in a city department or that a public employee may have engaged in. we are the largest employer in san francisco. it is only natural as some of that bad behavior may fall on our doorsteps. it is refreshing to see some of the wonderful work people are doing, who really personify the ethos of san francisco. i want to celebrate that. on behalf of the mayor, thank you. please do your part to extend your appreciation to those people. it was a very difficult process. the community members who are involved in the selection process, as we know, we had great nominees. we were forced to decide between a very compelling nominations. i think something they all have in common is a dedication to the city. in my work, i've spent some time occasionally looking at h.r. documents, including studies on what motivates people. i have a post-it on my computer that says "mastery, but autonomy, and purpose." what they're finding at the higher levels of employee, what motivates people is not t

i can't speak for my brethren, but i take that clause seriously and i'll vote accordingly.u want he to vote for them sheerly because they reached hall of fame numbers, then take the clause out of the ballot. both roger clemens and barry bonds are eligible for the hall of fame for the first time this december, though clemens was named 82 times in congress's mitchell report on steroid use in baseball, he never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in his career. the new york yankees hosting the braves last night. sixth inning, mark teixeira from the right side hits a solo home run, helps the yankees to their tenth consecutive win, the second longest winning streak for the yankees since the divisional era began in 1969. the mets at home facing the orioles. r.a. dickey coming off a one-hitter in his last start. maybe should have been a no-hitter. wilson betemit with the first and only hit of the game. another one-hitter for r.a. dickey. in the eighth, dickey gets nick johnson to end the frame there. chris davis getting caught looking to end the game. mets win 5-0,'s o

he's not accepted really by his former populist brethren and he can't go back to the republican party because he's the enemy now. so he kind of switches gears and goes more toward socialism and he actually ends up getting elected to the united states senate. lewellin's major downfall was the fact that he wasn't a good enough leader. i don't think he was able to be the voice of his party like he was the face of his party here in kansas. i don't think he controlled what his party did enough to really make some strong reforms that he had advocated for. >> and i also feel like it's part of listening to the moderate voice, that the extremes, no matter how passionate they may be, sometimes it's the moderate voice that wins over in the long run. >> this weekend american history tv is featuring wichita, kansas, our local content vehicles recently visited wichita to learn about its rich history. learn more about wichita on cspan's local contempt vehicle on cspan.org/localcontinue tenlt. next month we'll feature jefferson city, missouri. >>> coming up, dr. ira rutkow discusses how surgery chang

. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planningn. >>> as nick says, it took him 90 seconds to get down on the ground from the mountain. his companions took three days to walk down. thanks so much for watching. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline," of course, later, and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, goodnight.

he is not accepted really by his former populist brethren. he can't go back to the republican party because he is the enemy now. he kind of switches gears and goes more towards socialism. he ends up getting elected to the state senate where he serves until he dies.

particularly in my region, i'm dealing with a right wing evangelical movement that has bamboozled the black brethren. what's the method, what's the move to attempt to rally those that congresswoman waters have referred to who are not really concerned because there's no food on the table. there's no jobs. how do we make the connection? what's the agenda to make the connection between the political process and not being bamboozled. if that makes sense? >> we're going to go to congresswoman sheila jackson lee. >> thank you, congresswoman and let me just thank the panel. thank our co-chairs. congressman rangel and congressman cedric richmond and our chair person. let me just hold up and make two points and then spiritually go to my seat. if there are any poster children for shame, and this is a map of shame, i know that pastor freddy haynes would join me and say that texas is certainly fighting for the prize. and florida is right in the mix. the map of shame, somebody wanted to call out another state, of course is the voter i.d. if you will note, more than 75% of america is trying to do voter i.d. i cal

. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planningdon. >> as nick says, it took him 90 seconds to get down on the ground from the mountain. his companions took three days to walk down. thanks so much for watching. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline," of course, later, and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, goodnight. >>> did you lose money in the facebook ipo? a bailout for investors who fell behind from the start. >> and they lost at the ballot box. can they win in courts? police and fire unions challenged a vote on the pension reform. >> and in sacramento, could election results predict november's outcome? california voters didn't like the cigarette tax. >> and president makes a withdrawal from his bay area cash machine. money matters but doesn't always assure victory. >> take a look. here is how facebook stock is performing since the company went public, down, down. and there is some early investors can makeup for part of the loss. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> investor who's lost million

able to tell us which justices were forthcoming in your reporting of the, for the writing of "the brethren"? >> woodward thinks when somebody dies, their privileged, if you will, that they attain by talking to us on deep background or off the record expires. i don't necessarily feel that way. i'll tell you what's in public. blackman acknowledged that he spent a long time with me and had some conversations, and the, there's a, the other justices, wordward had said stewart was helpful and then gets ambiguous. time periods in which i don't feel it's fair to comment. i can tell you one thing that was -- i got a call in the middle of reporting on it one morning from -- it was seeming to me as a reporter by then, and not getting up at the crack of dawn early, and this voice, mr. armstrong -- yes? it was, this is thurgood marshall. this couldn't be thurgood marshall calling me at home, getting me out of bed. i figured it was my friend who was a good mimic. i said, mark, come on. you're not going to pull it. ah, who's mark? i said, what are you talking about, xblasmark? come on. i don't know who m

karen: brethrens, we are gathered here in the vision of jesus to say goodbye to this-- to this mouse,ts time. we have given it cheese and bread for its journey to heaven, or at least if it goes to hell, it'll have cheese on toast. next up is the pope. and they're trying to chase the man up the cliff, and the man falls down the cliff and the crocodiles get him. and you saw that on youtube? no, but i'd like to. is jane gone, then? oh, yeah. about time. it's about time we put our foot down, stopped her lumbering us with alexa with all that "boo hoo, my life's so hard" routine. yeah. well done, sweetheart. cup of tea? slice of cake? yeah. mmm. but the way, we're having alexa for the weekend. dust to dust, for richer or for poorer, in sickness or in health, may the force be with you, because you're worth it. amen and out. thank you. aaah! we let them watch tv on sundays as a special treat. we ban all tv on a sunday. ( kids shouting ) next door do it. we can't compete with that. the older they get, the more it turns into one-way traffic. i won't be having sex till i'm fourteen or fifteen...

he is not accepted really by his former populist brethren. he can't go back to the republican party because he is the enemy now. he kind of switches gears and

one thing i noticed looking at some of the material in scott's book the brethren in the last few days reading it is how -- i was telling jill this last night. how prepared and able the lawyers in the special prosecutors office are, how knowledgeable they are about, one, the criminal law, about how to take their tapes case to the supreme court, how they know how to handle the court, has sifted through the arguments that will work and those that will not. whereas the nixon people just blunder ahead and do all kinds of things that annoy the court going in. there's little reason they vote 8 di 8-0. the president has announced he wants a definitive decision. and by god, they gave him one. any questions over on this side? over here. yes. >> so i'm also very fascinated by the bipartisan nature of the whole watergate experience. the fact that republicans are well represented on the prosecution team, the fact that you broke ranks. >> it's unanimous setting up the senate watergate committee. there are only a couple republicans who were absent. but it's an overwhelming vote to set that investiga

. >> i happen to think the brethren, mark and scott woodward one of the most remarkable pieces of journalism that goes inside the supreme court like no book has ever done before or since. i happened to re-read the material on u.s. versus nixon. the case. it is a blow-by-blow description. we're going to touch on it as we get to the end of this session this morning, and scott worked on that, and it really gives an insight into how that case was evolved right from the get-go to the decision. alex what do you do after you left the government? we'll come back to how this all unfolded, but tell us a little about your postgovernment career. >> i feel like the guy that was going to the moon and he said what do you plan to do? i know he said, well, i plan to cry a lot. i cried a lot. no. i was looking for a job, and it was -- it was difficult, because i was not the most popular guy in town. >> because of your testimony before the senate? >> yeah. the watergate thing, because my other testimony before the judiciary committee during the impeachment was behind closed doors. i was the first of eight witn

and, you know, i'd like to hear, you know, the perspectives from my brethren at the state level and also at the county level about how we're affecting you all. >> let's do that. representative bernard, how are we impacting the state level? >> well, first of all, i get to see it from -- i represent district 84 in florida. and ruth jones is a city manager in one of the cities that i represent. and district 84 is kind of like one of those sprawling districts. it includes, like, rivera beach, west palm beach. if you go out to the western part of the district, it includes belle glade, poe hokie and south glade. hearing some of the unemployment is 6%, if i had that in my district, i would be jumping for joy. in bellglade, pohoki and south dade, the unemployment is 14%. i get to see it from a different perspective. when i go to tallahassee, there is a lot of rhetoric about what is right, what is left and everything. but me, what are we doing to create jobs, and how can i bring back jobs to my constituents. and so that's the reason why sid on the investment and banking an economic development so

thirteen there is considerably less attention paid to the relative ability of their central banking brethren to work together there is considerably less analysis of what that portends now we've heard reports about central banks around the world standing ready to act and it coordinated effort ahead of greek elections if things went really south and remember back in november to several top central bankers got on the phone and agreed to make it cheaper for financial institutions outside the u.s. to borrow dollars in case of emergency well i will leave it to my guest to explain the possible reasons for this accord but looking ahead does this mean in the face of crisis we'll see central bankers coming together to form of force bigger than the sum of their money printing parts a volt tron monster to blast massive liquidity together across the globe take a look at the poster there is ben bernanke the mervyn king of the bank of england and that little blue guy mario drug of the european central bank but they are not alone in being so chummy and here to talk about why and where this has us headed is

the nasdaq's gains today, not quite as large as the index brethren although it's the best performer of the three for the year in 2012. all right. well, as we head to what we're calling g-day, the big greek vote on sunday, there's a lot going on. so let's take a pause and reset the scene for just a second and give you some of the big headlines today overseas. this is all happening really in the last 24 hours, folks. moody's cutting spain's credit rating three notches to one level above junk. you heard earlier today on cnbc bond yields hitting 7%. the big thing in greece, michelle is there. we'll talk to her in a second. sunday elections. in trade, the last time i showed showing a 31% chance only that the far left party wins the biggest percent part of the vote. the banks today up on the hopes that the pro-bailout party does win. by the way, in greece, the unemployment rate today came out. it is jumped to a record 22.6%. germany in the middle of this chart for a reason. they are the stalwart in europe. the question around germany, will they budge from a hardline stance? there are reports

i ask that question, because our brethren at wnyc, the public radio station here in new york, recently ran a series in which they reported that one in five people stopped last year by new york city police were teenagers 14 to 18 years old. 86% of those teenagers stopped were either black or latino, ost of them boys. last year, more than 120,000 stops of black and latino, the total number of black and latino boys that age in new york city isn't much more than that. 177,000 or so, which suggests that every teenage boy who's black and latino in this city of new york is likely before he graduates to have been stopped and frisked by the police. so you're a historian. what does history have to tell me about stop and frisk? >> it tells us that it's an old and enduring form of surveillance and racial control. so if we think about the moment immediately following the civil war, there was the invention of something called the black codes in every southern state. and those codes were intended to use the criminal justice system to restrict the freedom and mobility of black people. and if you cross

paid for that for over a decade so it's hard to know whether the germans having done it with the brethrenl be willing to do it with everybody else on the continent. >> thanks so much, ron. >> thanks. >>> in an hour, president obama meeting face to face with russian president vladimir putin. ahead of the g-20 summit. this is for the first time that they'll come face to face since putin regained the presidency. at issue, rush why's role in the ongoing crisis in syria. nbc chief white house correspondent and host chuck todd live for us in mexico. we have seen the reports of russia's military preparing to send its marines to syria. on that news, what can president obama accomplish in this pretalk before the g-20 with vladimir putin? >> well, they have pretty low exec tpectatio expectations. they expect it to have awkward tlooers public body language and behind the scenes, the big push and trying to get the russians to agree to is to at least, you know, perhaps throw assad under the bus. if they don't want to topple the regime and may be what a lot of others that are worried about syria would

it's 29% between a greek worker and his brethren here in the european union.tough austerity when they came into the euro. so they had low interest rates in germany so they could borrow like crazy and they had a structural boom because the eu money was coming into the country leading up to the olympics so between 2000 and 2007, this economy was booming and growing 4% to 5%, but at the same time public spending was going up 40% to 45% a year. so right now the payback is very, very painful and that's what the greeks are voting for now. did they go for more austerity and did they stay in and have the confidence of the currency or not. defterios, part of the team covering those elections. coming up next, some final thoughts on the economic storm headed to the united states. ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss. [ gasps ] this fiber one 90 calorie brownie has all the moist, chewy, deliciousness you desire. mmmm. thanks. at 90 calories, the brownie of your dreams is now deliciously real. wanted to provide better employee benefits while balancing the company's bottom line, their

. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planningn. >> mm. >> more power to him. >> six days to climb it. 90 seconds to fly down. >> no, thank you. >> couldn't do it. i get scared riding the subway. i don't know how those guys do it. i'm tipping my hat. >> i am a wimp for sure. >> more from abc next. >> this is abc's "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades. w." informing inso

. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planningn. >> mm. >> more power to him. >> six days to climb it. 90 seconds to fly down. >> no, thank you. >> couldn't do it. i get scared riding the subway. i don't know how those guys do it. i'm tipping my hat. >> i am a wimp for sure. >> more from abc next. >> this is abc's "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades. w." informing insomniacs for two when sosome people struggle withheir mortgage payments, they become frozen, petrified. not knowing what to do, they do nothing,, but the people who take aion, are far more likely to get the most positive outcome. making home affordable is a free government program. call now to talk one on one with a housing expert about the options that are right for you. real help, real answers right now.

. >> reporter: and like its brethren, the bronx zoo cobra and pig, the cape cod bear has become a social media sensation. with over 1,400 people following. the bear's summer holiday may be coming to an end. officials will try to tranquilize it and bring it back to the mainland. but for residents, it's one vacation they'll never forget. they're going to try to tranquilize it? try? >> all they can do is try. >> give it their best effort and maybe get the bear off the island. >> thanks, josh. >>> let's get back out to the park and sam champion is there. we're counting down to our counting crows concert. sam? >> not only that, robin. but there's barbecue trucks in the park. i'm just saying. right there. not that i've been anywhere near them. let's get to the boards. we'll show you exactly what's going on this morning as you make your way out for your weekend. we're going to talk about the fire conditions in the west. we have 18 major fires burning right now. eight states have fire watches or warnings out. it's going to be tough to fight them. take a look at what happens with the warmer numbe

if we're not going to become victim like we are in, you see in europe, our brethren in europe, the great difficulties they are because they ran up these deficits. so i think he has to say, i have the experience. i know what we have to do to get the businesses that create jobs in this country moving forward. jon: all right. debbie, what would you like to hear president obama say? >> well, first of all i want to try to be positive, and i think that the american people want to see us start to have solutions. so i could talk about the mitt romney experience in massachusetts and how he was 49th out of 50th of john creation. 46th in economic growth. but i think what we need today, see comparison of two speeches they have very different approaches. one is approach, let's get rid of all regulation and cut taxes to let it trickle down. one is from the middle class up. how do we win vest in education, energy, innovation, infrastructure and, let's try to minimize taxes that may require, we do have to reduce the deficit to two very different approaches. jon: well, but, debbie, some observers would s

[laughter] two years later, along with the rest of the country, you paid tribute to your navy brethren who pulled off that great daring mission ridding the world of osama bin laden. [applause] having had the honor to work on that mission as directer of the cia, i'll never forget that moment coming out of the white house after the president's announcement and hearing the cheers coming from the crowds that had spontaneously gathered outside the white house. "usa, usa." and i know i heard "cia, cia" as well. you are men and women from every state in the union, from 12 foreign nations, rich and poor, secular and religious, black, white, latino, native american, asian, straight and gay. diversity of this class is a tribute to the life and service commander wesley brown, class of '49, first african-american graduate of the naval academy. [applause] wesley passed away last week at the age of 85, and today we honor his ground breaking legacy. while your class progressed from the first honor of induction day up to this moment, the world has undergone its own transformation naval academy graduat

how southern european brethren are spending it of that's the problem., that's why it's so darn difficult, plotting from crisis to crisis. to make the final hard decisions about the fiscal union they don't have it there, the consensus to do it. this the heart of it. i was just, carl, last night with a bunch of hedge fund traders discussing where the global economy was out. the key issue is commodities are the key to understanding what's going on. let met just put up what's been going on. look at brent crude here. this is why a lot of people are rather gloomy about the global economy. we're down, brent crude down 22%. the good news this is what's tied to gasoline. gasoline prices down 15% in the last several months. that's a good sign, not a good sign for global growth, nor is it copper, exact same thing. a big debate about corp. 15% in the last two and a half months to the downside. indication of slower. oil and copper down 22 and 15% respectively, that's an issue. a lot of discussions yesterday on what exactly gold has been telling us. boy, did i have s

through the levels of government and, you know, i'd like to hear, you know, the perspectives from my brethrent the state level and also at the county level about how we're affecting you all. >> let's do, that representative bernard. how are we impacting the state level? >> well, first of all, i get to see it from -- i represent district 84 in florida, and ruth jones is a city manager in one of the cities that i represent, and district 84 is kind of like one of those sprawling districts, and it includes, like, rivera beach, west palm beach, and if you go out to the western part of the district, it includes belgrade and south bay. and hearing some of the unemployment rate is, like, 16%, if i had that in my district, i would be, like, jumping for joy. i have -- in bell divide and south bay, the unemployment over there is 40%. so i get to see it from a whole different perspective where so, like, when i go to tallahassee, there's a lot of rhetoric about what's right, what's left and everything, but me it's like what are we doing to create jobs and, you know, how can i bring back jobs to my constit