[laughter] john paul stevens attended jakarta -- college in chicago, law school in chicago, practiced in chicago and served for five years, on the senate. even after he was dragged off to washington in 1975, he remained our circuit justice. this year, he became the second justice to reach the age of 90 while in active service. the other was oliver wendell holmes. [applause] his predecessors in his seat on the supreme court were louis brandeis and william o. douglas. for 16 years, he has been a senior associate justice. you may have read about him during the last few weeks. [laughter] i give you, justice stevens. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. fellow judges, friends, members of the seventh circuit breakebrd friends again, i am going to play my normal role tonight and talk to you very briefly while you are waiting to hear the principal speaker, and i want to say that on her behalf, she very friendly offer to let me go last tonight and i pulled rank on her and said no, i'm going to basically do what i have done for many, many years, just have a few

and then this challenge in chicago. what other background do we need to know to understand how this came to the court? >> jeff, this case came to the court because of a challenge brought by a group of residents of chicago and its suburb, oak park, illinois, as well as local and national chapters of the national rifle association. these suits were ready to go really after the supreme court ruled two years ago that the second amendment protects a right to keep a gun in the home for self-defense. >> brown: what was the key issue in this case? and what did the majority decide? >> well, justice alito pointeded out in his opinion today that the bill of rights was originally viewed by the framers to protect us against actions by the federal government. but after the civil war and with the adoption of post civil war amendments, the court began to look at the 14th amendment's due process clause and found that it actually prevented states from infringing certain rights protected by the bill of rights. so the question was what abo

chicago is red and black all over.the hawks dominated because of their perseverance, hard work and dedication to the sport. it was once said, what destiny spins bear, whoever preserves will be crowned. the blackhawks have preserved and have been rightly croined -- crowned. i congratulate the blackhawks' head coach forgiving his team direction and instilling the determination necessary to achieve this well-deserved victory. and while handing out congratulations, let us not forget the blackhawks' team captain, jonathan towes. he possesses superior leadership skills and ability and was able to guide his team through to victory. and so i thank again the gentlewoman from the district of columbia for yielding. i was rushing hard to try and get here before this ended because i am indeed proud to represent the world famous world known, world renowned chicago blackhawks who make up a part of the heart and the spirit of the congressional district that i have the good fortune to represent. so i thank you, mr. speaker, and yield b

anyone in chicago can have a handgun. the vote was 5-4. what do you think? >> a huge win for second amendment rights but i'm disturbed by the fact it was only 5-4. it should have been 9-0. it's fantastic. the second amendment is quite clear and it's interesting unlike the heller case this really shows the fact that, yes, firearms second amendment is for self-defense and individual possession as well. i think that's so often kicked aside in these arguments. in fact, i think a lot of people try to pretend that's really not what one of the focuses of the second amendment is. >> larry: it's been debated for years, stephanie, the second amendment back to the original minutes in the actual congress. >> it seems like there's no reason anymore in these arguments. there are states that it's okay to have guns in bars. it's okay to bring a baby in a bar. it's like, what's next? it's okay to arm babies in bars? is there no common sense? guns and alcohol, that's historically been a great combination. you can bring guns in church in some places. what do you need to make t

john paul stevens attended college in chicago, law school in chicago, practiced in chicago, and served for five years on the the seventh circuit. even after he was dragged off to washington in 1935, -- in 1975, he remained in service to chicago. this year, he read -- this year, he became the first justice to turn and 90 while in service. the other was oliver wendell holmes. [applause] his predecessor's aura louis brandeis and william o. douglas -- were louis brandeis and william o. douglas. you may have read about him in the past couple of weeks. i give you justice stevens. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applaase] >> thank you very much. fellow judges, friends, members of the bar, and friends again, i am going to play my normal role tonight and talk to you very briefly what you are waiting to hear the principal speaker. i want to say, on her behalf, as she very kindly offered to let me go last. i said no, i will basically do what i have done for many, many years, which is open with comments that are not very profound. it occurs to me out of the blue that it was the 100th anniversa

then you can get grandfathered in in chicago. a couple of big donors to mayor daley had been exempted from the regulations after 1982. for the vast majority of people in chicago, it was impossible to get a handgun after 1982. caller: good morning. i have a couple of comments about this topic. the main thing is guns art second amendments. there is a reason why we were given those, to protect the first amendment. you look at australia many years ago and the outright sale and ownership of all guns. you can get permits and do all the rigmarole to own hunting rifles. home invasions went up 900%. they don't tell you about those facts. november 9 -- november 5 in montana, a couple of illegal immigrants broke into a girl's house as her father left. these illegal immigrants -- we can assume with a came from -- they did note that this girl was a shooting champion. she went upstairs, grabbed her father's shotgun, and protected herself with the second amendment right. they had a .45 on them that they had stolen from the previous crime quest

in the chicago case, the bonafides were litigated. the test was determined to be not only racially discriminatory, with a disparate impact, but that was -- that it was arbitrary and unrelated to job selection or job performance. unrelated in any way. that finding was not appealed or contested after the trial court by chicago. we have a circumstance where the court is faced with a conceited concededly discriminatory practice. is it a violation every time it is used? in that circumstance, there was not the stame hostility. i do not want to overplay what that meant. we got unanimous opinion that i think is pretty good. the hostility that was present in the distrust of new haven acting in an area of sort of unknown behavior really ate up what happened there. the threat last year from justice scalia and his concurrents is that he threatened to set a disparate impact was itself unconstitutional -- to say that disparate impact was itself unconstitutional and to give congress no role in fixing that. those concerns are not present this year at

host: john, our last caller, in chicago. john, if you are on. caller: i worked as a teacher in chicago public schools briefly, so i had some experience. my main problem with the teaching environment is the union mentality of teachers. but in your time and wages keep increasing regardless up -- put in your time and wages keep increasing regardless of results. there is no accountability, and we see this in the chicago public school system. guest: i like the union culture. my organization started three years ago and now is really in full swing -- priorities schools. some people call these high- need, we call them priority. reaching out to parents in the community in collaboration with management and school board, saying that we need to be different. i believe that is the responsibility of the unions, and we are doing it. i can show you examples all over this country in every single state where collaboration with unions and management and school board is changing schools around. that is the responsibility of the unions. when it comes to accountabili

since chicago is the transportation hub for the nation, what is good for chicago is good for the nation. i believe that this merger will benefit the chicago region. in addition, it has the potential to be good for the o'hare airport in the o'hare modernization program. it is definitely good for our nation's air traffic. however, there are a number of critical issues that need to be examined. we would see how the impact wouldn't affect service. we have gone through the issue and i am sure that we will hear more about that and we have spoken about that in your testimony. we also need to look at the impact that the merger would have on jobs, especially with respect to job loss. finally, we also need to make sure that there is a commitment by at the new united airlines to increase capacity. right now, it would most critically provide runaways and reduce by 75% at o'hare. two runways have already been completed and one run the project is currently being worked on and there are more projects that remain to be done. i want to ask mr. tilton, are you committed if this goes through, or are you c

what about the ruling of the court the other day throwing out the chicago law about guns?old -- you can have a gun in chicago. >> well, i mean, again, the republican party some times seem these he do nothing but think of new places where you can have a gun, churches, bars. in arizona -- arizona, my favorite state, should rename itself whiteyville. in arizona, you know, guns in a bar, i can't even begin to formulate a comedic routine, too easy. >> larry: the second amendment. the right to bear -- >> the second amendment talks about militias, doesn't say anything about individuals. but okay, we have sort of lost that battle a long time ago. and ever since al gore they say lost the 2000 election because of his stance on gun control, lost his home state of tennessee, no democrat has had the guts to come out. again, another issue, larry, where we do not have two policies, we have two parties and one policy. we love guns, we can't get enough guns. lart question is why do we love guns? >> yes, having said that i have a gun and i'm not going to give up my gun. >> larry: why do we

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we will go next to chicago. this is impacting your city with your mayor angry at the supreme court decision. caller: good morning. i have been here all my life. in 51 years old. -- i am 51 years old. to me, the ban was stupid. criminals will always find ways to get handguns. all he did was take handguns away from hard-working taxpayers. that is all they did was to take it away from the. i remember i went to florida with my kids to disney world. we flew down and rented a car from the airport. at the same time, if you recall, they were having a bump thing if they knew you had out of state tax -- and if you would get out, they would rob you. that is because florida has the conceal/carry law, so there would not take a chance on robbing someone with a fourth attack, because they don't know if that person would have a gun or not. i'm glad for the ruling, but do believe the mayor of chicago, which i did not vote for, is going to make it so hard and financially difficult that many people are going to give up on the idea

she even read something in the "chicago tribune" she said. and i wonder why is she reading the damn "chicago tribune"? knowing what chuchi does -- but she did, she was sweeping all this in. and i was really stunned and later we described it as this capacity to manage mind on, hands off. intellectually involved in what we are doing but not telling us how to report or bradley how to edit. and then at the end she had the killer question. which was when is the whole story going to come out? when are we going to find out the whole truth? and i said to carl, and i felt very strongly because the burglars were being paid for their silence, clearly criminal conspiracy, they compartmentalized information. people were frightened, trule fearful to talk to us about -- truly fearful to talk p to us about this. nigh answer when is all this going to come out is never. and she had this really awful -- >> probably never. you said never? >> i said never. when does the truth come out? rarely. so i said never. so she looked at me, wounded pain look on her face, s

. >> larry: you can have again in chicago. >> the republican party sometimes it seems they do nothingof new places where you can have a gun. churches, bars, and in arizona. arizona, mike ferris state. should remit self. in arizona, guns in a bar. i cannot begin to formulate a routine because it is too easy. >> translator: the right to bear. >> the second amendment does not talk about individuals. we lost that battle a long time ago. ever since al gore, they say lost the 2000 election because of his stance on gun control, lost his home state of tennessee, no democrat has had the guts to come out. another issue where we do not have to back policies. two parties and one policies. we loved guns. >> larry: why do we love guns? >> having said that, i have again and i am not giving up. there are too many other nuts out there with guns. that is the thing. that is understandable. is a case of no going back. we are such a gun culture and so many people already have guns that you do not want to be in your home if somebody breaks and then they have guns. >> larry: i interviewed an inspector once

i wder what she was reading the damn "chicago tribune." nobody does and wash -- nobody does in chicago. she was sweeping all of this in. i waseally stunned and later we described it as this capacity to manage mind on, hands off. intellectually involved but not telling us how to report or at it. at the end, she had the killer question. like a good ceo, which is when is the whole story goingo come out? when do we find out the whole truth? i said that we felt very strongly that the burglars were being paid, criminal conspiracy, they come are -- the compartmentalized information people were frightened, truly fearful to talk to us about this. my answer was never. she had this really awful to go probably never. >> i said never. she looked at me with a pained look on her face and said never? do not tell me never. i left lunch in motivated employees. [laughter] it was not a threat. it was a statement of purpose. what she said is used all of your resources. or have an obligation to journalism, to ourselves, but it goes beyond that. if we have a tru

eastern. >> this weekend, the chicago track -- l trackithe chicago tribune lit fest. get the entire schedule at book- tv.org. we have three new cspan books for you. >. . cuts the president is set to make a statement shortly here and we will have live coverage -- >> the president is set to make a statement shortly and will have live coverage when it gets under way. while we wait, this segment of this morning's "washington journal." journal." that is "the new york times" editorial, their sikh -- bear take of the message from arkansas. "the wall street journal" has this to say >> part of this morning's "washington journal" which you can watch online at c-span.org. we believe this now to take you to the rose garden for live comments from president obama. >> good morning, everybody. i just finished a meeting with the small business owners and a few of their workers' and we talked about some of the economic challenges facing these folks. we talked about ways that our government can make it easier for smaller firms to hire and to grow. thess men and women know how important

in the chicago case, the bonafides were litigated. the test was determined to be not only racially discriminatory, with a disparate impact, but that was -- that it was arbitrary and unrelated to job selection or job performance. unrelated in any way. that finding was not appealed or contested after therial court by chicago. we have a circumstance where the court is faced with a conceited concededly discriminatory practice. is it a violation every time it is used? in that circumstance, there was not the stame hostility. i do not want to overplay what that meant. we got unanimo opinion that i think is pretty good. the hostility that was present in the distrust of new haven acting in an area of sort of unknown behavior really ate up what happened there. the threat last year from justice scalia and his concurrents is that he threatened to set a disparate impact was itself unconstitutional -- to say that disparate impact was itself unconstutional and to give congress no role in fixing that. those concerns are not present this year at all.

as "the washington post," the chicago tribune and," and "the wall street journal," are saying that this is a bad idea. we are driving the kind of gdp growth that the nation needs, and we now have the fcc coming forward with a proposal to create such uncertainty, that it throws a chill over a lot of economic activity. >> the comcast case ruled that the fcc approach to enforcing policy does not fly from a legal standpoint. we are in a situation now where consumers are without recourse if their internet access provider should slow, block or degrade their service or intrude on their privacy, or charged double what their neighbor pays for the same service, even cuts of their service entirely. they are without any basic rules of the road over provisioning that telecommunications link on a nondiscriminatory basis. internet users have no with title i, and part of tttled ii, so the consumers have some reassurance that they can continue their online activity without regard to the preferencee of their provider. >> does your association think that broadband services should be priced reeulated? >> a

the severe weather also hit chicago and hit it hard.ine of strong storms knocked out power to more than 400,000 people, and blew out windows in the city's willis tower, the former sears tower. >>> former pro basketball star bold died saturday at a virginia hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble and a rare skin disease. bol was drafted by the washington bullets in 1985. and played for three other teams. at 7'7", he was one of the tallest players ever in the nba. after his basketball career, he devoted his time to helping the people in his native sudan. bol was 47 years old. >>> those are your headlines this hour. i'm don lemon keeping you informed. cnn, the most trusted name in news. to work better on pain than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. cone on, kiddo, let's go. hold on a second... come on up here, where your brothers sit. wow! chevy traverse. a consumers digest best buy, with a 100,000 mile, powertrain warranty.

the chicago blackhawks downed the philadelphia flyers four to three in overtime last night to win the best-of-seven title series, four games to two. also today, the n.c.a.a.banned the university of southern california from postseason play for two years. an investigation found former runningback reggie bush received improper benefits. a number of victories involving bush will be wiped out, including a national title win over oklahoma in 2005. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jim. >> lehrer: next, the world cup of soccer in south africa. a star-studded cast took the stage at the orlando stadium in soweto tonight. tens of thousands sang, danced and waved flags at the opening concert. the month-long tournament begins tomorrow on a continent and in a country that will be playing host for the first time to the world's biggest sport event. in south africa's capital, fans are streaming in, including vice president and mrs. biden, brazilian soccer legend pele and fans and journalists from around the world. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro begins our coverage with

at her home in chicago, she is becoming more independent and making friends.r father hung one of her paintings above his desk at the white house after he moved to washington last year. how torn do you feel having lauren here? >> david axelrod: it's been hard to explain to her. she doesn't understand why. she asks all the time, "why does barack obama need so much help?" >> couric: he recently surprised her with an unplanned visit. while the axelrods are grateful for how far their daughter has come, they're committed to helping other families intervene sooner than they could for lauren. do you ever look at her and kind of think, "gee, what if? what would she be doing now?" >> susan axelrod: too often. and this is what happens. yeah, it's painful. >> david axelrod: god knows what she could've been. but that's a... that's a treacherous place to go. you know, there was a time when we would have given our right arm for just a... a week of good days. and now, she has them consistently. so, you know, that's a big victory. >> couric: since we first broadcast this story

this chicago study is one study that suggested that perhaps people aren't siloing themselves. there have been others that suggested that maybe the ... maybe people who read blogs are siloing themselves. there was a study about four years ago, three or four years ago that suggested that blogs on the right were linking mainly to other right wing blogs and vice versa with the left. even if people aren't siloing themselvess on line, what we're seeing more and more is that the extreme points of views that we're getting from... that couldn't have been introduced in to national discussion in the past are being introduced now by this sort of entry mechanism. people put it on blogs and then it gets picked up by cable news and then it becomes a national discussion. >> one of the reasons they're coming together online is precisely they turn on the television and they see, wow there's an idiot screaming at another idiot. i don't care. it's time to go actually understand the issue. i think all of these things are really important. of course i think we can't neglect that there are bad thing

he joins us from chicago. dr. sledge let's begin with lung cancer. a big killer.and investigations into the effectiveness of a drug called crsatanid, what do the results show? >> this is a fascinating result. in the past we have treated patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer with kbijss of chemotherapy and these combinations benefit some patients but not most. now investigators have been able to detect a gene mutation for what's called a fusion gene in a fairly small number of lung cancer patients, about five percent. that when you treat the patients with a drug that blocks this particular gene product, you get stupendous results. somewhere around 70% of patients will have an active response to the drug and we know that these responses last for prolonged periods of time. this is a real sea change for this type of lung cancer. >> suarez: so you mentioned it is true of a small number of patients. how would you figure out who to treat in this way before commencing with that treatment? >> well, you can take a piece of the patient's tumor tissue and do specific testin

brings me to the question for you where you have been very explicit in the now famous university of chicago "law review" article about dealing with substantive issues. we had the standard for determining constitutionality under the commerce clause from maryland versus wertz, 1968. justice harlan who acquired the standard where they have a chosen regulatory scheme necessary to the protection of commerce, our investigation is at an end. in the city of bernie case, 1997, the court pulled out of thin air a new test, and the test is whether the legislation is pportiona and congruent, and that is the test which justice scalia so roundly criticized saying it was flabby and it was an excuse for a judicial legislation. now, would you take harlas test as opposed to the congruence and proportionality test. >> senator specter, justice scalia is not the only person who has been critical of the test. a number of people have noted that the test, which is, of course, a test relating to congress' power to legislate under section 5 of the 14th amendment, that the test has led to some apparently inconsistent

where the president, barack obama, made his reputation for organizing communities and politics in chicago. project vote is part and parcel of acorn. the novet united states is acorn. he's identified with acorn he made his reputation with acorn. he's worked for and with acorn. he's trained acorn workers. now when he said during the campaign to his supporters, get in their face, pretty consistent with the message they train acorn activists, get in their face. intimidate bankers, see if you can get them to make more bad loans in bad neighborhoods. let acorn be the judge of if they're making enough bad loans in bad neighborhoods which -- is a big part of why the economy is in this downward spiral. the pressdent was complicit in that which brought about the problems in america by working with and for and representing acorn. then, when he was elected novet united states, he sought to pove the united states census from the commerce department into the white house where he could manage the census of counting the people, real or imagined, in the white house. and the public uproar over acorn caused

they can take their carbon credits and they can sell them, through an exchange, on the board in chicago, two exchanges that exist, as far as i know right now, any organization that has any hint that any utility that has to burn more coal or natural gas or more diesel fuel and emit more co-2 wouud have to buy the carbon credits from the entity that had created them by replacing the co-- emissions with, say, nuclear, or wind, or solar or some other source. so these exchanges go on. carbon credits are expensive when they start and as they dial this down, the idea is to reduce the co-2 emissions from the standard, the cap, ast the cap at 2005 emissions levels, and trade these co -- trade the carbon credits, dial them down by 17% by a certain year, which seems to me is 2013, way too soon. and then from whatever that year is, the 17% reduction, out to 25050, re-- out to 2050, down to -- reduce them. the vision is we'd be emitting 17% of the co-2 we are doing today. i expect we'll use the same amount of energy. do you expect, mr. speaker, that these carbon credits are going to be worth more or

host: next is sharon from evanston, illinois, outside of chicago. democrats' line. good morning. caller: i recently filed for chapter 13, and i am still having problems, because my mortgage company refuses to give me a loan modification. guest: yes, well, actually, this is a great time for this call. today, as a matter of fact, june 1, a new treasury department rule goes into effect which requires mortgage lenders and servicers to expand the enhanced protection, the home affordable mortgage program, to individuals who are in chapter 13. formerly, the ability to expand coverage was discretionary. to often a lenders did not extend the program to those who are in bankruptcy. but now, june 1, the program is mandatory, and that allows the individual to essentially right- size their income for their mortgage to 31% of their growth income. it will allow the individual to scale down when they go on the mortgage down to the 31% figure and paid out over a period of time. again, this is day one of the program. we don't yet know how effective it will be until this point, the government progr

host: that call is from chicago. here is the front page of "the chicago sun-times." marked kirk, not -- mark kirk, as he tries to explain mistakes on his resume. he blamed several of the inaccuracies on his attempt to translate pentagonese for voters or inattention in his campaign to the fine points of his 21- year military career. in an effort to stem the damage he also released his military personnel evaluations and promised to fix any errors found by anyone in the media to his political opponents. atlanta, steve, independent line. what do you think about drilling in the gulf? caller: we don't have any choice. the oil problem we got here, besides this idea of maybe not having two blow out protectors, it is the total and complete absolute response from the federal government on a backup plan to clean up the oil. the president of shell oil has written a book about it. you ought to have him on as a guest. why they are not cleaning the oil up, why they are not putting tankers him, why they are not putting barges in to clean the oil up is just a complete, total failure

i do not know whether to blame los angeles or chicago for that. they are both distancing themselves from phil jackson. there are mobilizations on the campuses of california against cutbacks. they made marches in the number of cities, including new york, wall street. the near victory of our own mayor in cleveland -- it is a sign of the times. would you stand? [applause] the anti-nuclear conference and rally at the un in early may struck a much needed note for peace. one of those or meters is here with us. would you stand? -- one of those coordinatorr is here with us. would you stand? [applause] not least, the struggle over health care reform signifies this action. everybody stand and give themselves ar round of applause. [applause] the bill's passage was not only a hard-earned victory, but it also broke a republican- engineered logjam in congress and gave a fresh push to change. social progress is a fight, much like our red sox-yankees game -- a red sox-yankees game. if there is no struggle, there is no progress. so then, so today. as for communist

she even read something in the "chicago tribune."mn "chicago tribune." nobody does and wash -- nobody does in chicago. she was sweeping all of this in. i was really stunned and later we described it as this capacity to manage mind on, hands off. intellectually involved but not telling us how to report or at it. at the end, she had the killer question. like a good ceo, which is when is the whole story going to come out? when do we find out the whole truth? i said that we felt very strongly that the burglars were being paid, criminal conspiracy, they come are -- the compartmentalized information. people were frightened, truly fearful to talk to us about this. my answer was never. she had this really awful to go probably never. >> i said never. she looked at me with a pained look on her face and said never? do not tell me never. i left lunch in motivated employees. [laughter] it was not a threat. it was a statement of purpose. what she said is used all of your resources. or have an obligation to journalism, to ourselves, but it goes bey

from the president of the united states who taught constitutional law at the stellar university of chicago school of law to think that that's the case, that he doesn't understand any better and thinks he can get awwy with it, no, we can read our history and our constitution and we have access, coupled with the people wwo have enough self-confidence to be in a full threated way to defend our freedom. that's who wer mr. speaker. that's who we must remain. that's the character that we must maintain and we cannot allow ourselves to be diminished to define ourselves within this government that don't understand our values as a nation or our constttution. mr. speaker, your timing is great. i couldn't have picked a better moment to yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa seek recognition. mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. ism the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those >> the house took up two bills. more were expected on those bills tomorrow. also of bill honoring their role of father

in the chicago firefighter's case, some members of the team were here, but in the chicago case there were litigated. the test was determined to be nottonly racially discriminatory but was unrelated to to job performance in any way. that finding was not appeal the contested in chicago. we have a circumstance where the court is faced with a discriminatory employment practice not job-related and the only question is, is it a violation of every time it is used? in that circumstance there was the same hostility. again, i do not want to overplay what that means, but we got a unanimous opinion that i think is a pretty good opinion. the hostility that was present and the distrust of new haven acting in an area of unknown behavior, the threats from justice scalia and its occurrence was that he threatened to say that it was unconstitutional and to give congress no role in fixing them. the opinion this year, those concerns are not present at all. it may be that ledbetter played a clear role, but we have a congressional at this year. the idea that congress can step in and change things, i do not

that will probably be a good thing in the current administration, to be from chicago. frankly, i cannot think of a more difficult topic for either the private sector or law- enforcement in general then to consider these three elements. that is, organized crime, terrorism, and intellectual property crimes. all of these areas, whether it is the organization or the crime itself, it is generally cloaked in secrecy. to further complicate the mix, i want to spend a couple more minutes to talk about a fourth area, which is white collar crime. i want to do that to highlight some of the distinctions and some of the differences that we know based on studies of organized crime, terrorism, and white-collar crime. with the specific regard to the u.s., organized crime and white- collar crime are two major concerns to law enforcement. unlike ordinary street crime, these activities are vast amounts of illegal proceeds for the criminal organizations involved. in comparison to organized crime, white-collar crime generally involves an enterprise. that is, there's a business entity and a

i think the gentleman from chicago talked about it. it's not just those who are unemployed now. it's those that are chronically unemployed. those that don't really believe that america's going to give them another chance, and those that are holding on now by their fingernails and hope that somebody somewhere would allow them to exist. some lines cannot be restored. you can't get back that house, you can't get back your credit, you can't get back your kid in college, you can't get back your reputation of being a hardworking person that takes care of their family. and these are personal crises that most people overcome, but can our country overcome it? can we tell a person that's worked all his life and his father and grandfather, can we say that we have found billions of dollars for the bankers but somehow we are concerned about the deficit when it comes to americans? the one quality that we have as is we believe in this country, we believe in hard work, and we believe that our country supports that type of thing. we can't talk about the other house. we can't talk about this even

>> after today, the bus will head to chicago for the chicago tribune literary festival and from there it will go to denver for an education conference. >> what locations would be visiting? >> the last four or five years, as a mentioned earlier, we had education outreach initiative, that was our focus. the last four or five years we branched out and we go to universities, six organizations, large book festivals, large education conferences. really needing a lot of people, whether it is students, teachers, people who might not be familiar with c-span, and branching out and letting them know about resources on board. >> how long will the bus be on the road? >> roughly 10 months out of the year. in between -- and between the large anchor events like book festivals, political events, we work with our cable affiliate's to go to high schools, universities, libraries, and six clubs. p> that was our c-span marketing supervisor. at around 8:30 this morning, we will take a look at the local content vehicle, and later on in the program we will go inside the digital bus for a glimpse of what visit

e even read something the "chicago tribune."der what she was reading the damn hicago tribune." nobody does and wash -- nobody does in chicago. she was sweeping all of this in. i was really stunn and later we described it as this capacity to manage mind on, hands off. intellectually involved but not telling us how to report or at it. at the end, she had the killer question. like a good ceo, which is when is the whole story going to come ou when do we find out the whole truth? i said that we felt very strongly that the burglars were being paid, criminal conspiracy, they come are -- the compartmentalized information. people were frightened, truly fearful to talk to us about this. answer was never. she had this really awful to go probably never. >> i said never. she looked at me with a pained look on her face and said never? do not tell me never. i left lunch in motivated employees. [laughter] it was not a threat. it was a statement of purpose. what she saids used all of your resources. or have an obligation to journalism, to oursel

you see the results we get in the chicago public school system. guest: from my perspective, i like the union culture. my organization, the national education association, we started three years ago, and now it is in full swing, priorities for schools. we call them priority schools. some people call them high need for low performing. we worked in collaboration with management and the school board, saying what do we need to do to do differently? i believe that is the responsibility of the union. we are turning schools around and changing what is happening to kids. that is the responsibility of the union. we comes to accountability, i believe it needs to be a shared accountability. we have to believe that teachers have what they -- we have to ensure that teachers have what they need. we have to make sure policymakers' provide the necessary programs. it is a collaborative effort. the idea only one group can do at is wrong. it is wrong to blame one group when it does not happen. we all have to come together. and we can do it. host: i found the facts. i

i am going to trade 80 degrees and trade winds for chicago winter?t she was always very proud and insistent. until the end of sher life she insisted on making sure -- until the end of her life she insisted on making sure she live in her apartment. there are given options for different people. the key is we want to give choice to seniors, what's best for them. some people love living in a retirement facility. some people want to stay in their own house. some people want a mix of options. so if they can get help that comes in, you know, that may be the best option. what we tried to do, not just in this law but what we're trying to do generally, and i want secretary sebelius to fill in on the specifics on this, is to increase the number of options that are available for people. and make sure that we are reimbursing through medicare, not just for the traditional choices of, you know, if you're in a nursing home then you're going to do it one way or another, but, you know, are there other ways that people can get maybe a nurse that comes in or maybe someb

native of chicago, i should say. it captures the possibilities of this moment. an astonnishing increase along traditions springing back to life. a people united shall never be defeated. >> now a look at race relations. talking about his experience in sell vision as a latino in the u.s. this is close to an hour. bounce off events and talking to me to make sense of it. it's one especially handy. i can't tell you the number of times people felt remarkable by comfortable about saying things about black people to me. similarly, black people feel comfortable with me as well. i have had had unusual front seat working as a journalist in new york, los angeles, chicago and washington. four cities with difficult race relations unable to express their numbers in political muscle because so many are not necessary naturalized. i washed as the commounity was split over washington. many mexicans and mexico americans siding with the reegs and opposing the first black mayor. pharmacy written in little english ones and vailed women are wielding strollers down the street. or new op

chicago, david, republican line. you are on "washington journal." caller: thank god every day for c-span. you guys are great. i'm a paraplegic disabled vietnam veteran. maybeot two ideas -- and i'm just a crazy that -- vet. the first ibm -- idea is, we tried to refinance to lower our mortgage. we could not because the appraisal came back lower than our existing balance. however, when we got our tax bill, our tax bill was increased several thousand dollars. and the fair cash value of the tax bill exceeds our mortgage balance. to stimulate the housing market, make banks utilize the fair cash value on property tax bills instead of having them appraised. because the market is so skewed now with the short sales and foreclosures. the second question -- with trying to extend the unemployment and the welfare checks and everything, why don't they attach an amendmenn to that that says, everybody has to reapply this time to make certain they weed out any fraud and anything else going on. that's all i have to say. thank you. host: david -- do you live in chicag

host: chicago, doris on the democratic line. you are on with john mercurio. caller: one of the problems i have with the media only one, with your guest, the same thing. he zeroed in on the amount of money that the unions put into the campaign. it didn't even mention the amount of corporate money that blanche lincoln got. and from the lead coming from of the clinton people the white house, i'm a liberal democrat and i feel just like a moderate democrats did before, the democratic party has no room for an african-american liberal democrat. have to look at other options like the green party. i voted for two green party candidates in the primary and one of them won. host: corporate money and blanche lincoln donations. guest: i think your caller makes an interesting point. she was backed strongly by a lot of corporate interest in washington, but if you look at bill halter's campaign reports, he also received corporate might as well. despite the fact that he was running with the strong backing of organized labor, the issue of corporate interests and where they were

host: in chicago, a tweet.ny particular reason why males aren't performing, pursuing education at the same rate as women? guest: there are so many here's the. to be perfectly honest i have not, myself, concluded which ones i find the most convincing. there's many here's the having to do with brain chemistry. another theory having to do with the college preparatory problem that boys mature at a different rate than girls and that there's a lot of emphasize on -- emphasis on achieving early in schools and boys are not quite ready so they start to think of themselves as academically incompetent and that repation sticks with them and it'sen only those boys that wait. i have not yet made up my mind as to what the cause is. caller: hi. you talked about birth control, but i think birth control is so much bigger than the little piece you spoke on it. to control reproduction, -- i want to up to on the fact that in the world women are doing quite poorly, so it's really the opportunity being born here in the united states.

the five justices who voted to apply the second amendment to the chicago gun ordinance relied on history and precedent. on the other handing the four justices who voted not to apply the second amendment instead relied heavily on public policy argument, the kind that you would find debated in the halls of congress. the question raised by every supreme court nomination, i believeis whether the nominee believe notice traditional role or the activist vision. does a nominee believe that the courts should make policy, like congress, even though they are not accountable to the people for their actions, via elections? will the nominee enforce the written constitution and not invent are new rights or will the nominee see it as his or her job to change the constitution to align itself one their policy preferences? solicitor general kagan, as i have a heard and as you know, because you've never been a judge what we do know about you begins and largely ends with your impressive resume, although one that does not have judicial experience. we know that you were a law clerk for two federal judges, sign