suddenly the tables turned on clarence thomas and there was a public spectacle.that to happen? >> absolutely, i expected some reaction. and i knew that there would be a lot of negative reaction. but let me just go back and correct one thing. remember, there was controversy even early on in the confirmation process. the american bar association had looked at his record and gave him one of the lowest ratings that it had ever given. there were a number of individuals from civil rights organizations who had come forward to testify that this was not a good nomination, that this was a nomination that was going to set us all back as a country. so that was there. but then, as you say, nothing really like what happened once my testimony took place. and i stand by that testimony. it was the right thing to do. and i'll tell you why. people say, well, it was a sexual harassment claim against him. but really it was testimony about the integrity of the individual who was going to be appointed for a lifetime position. >> what was interesting to me at the time was the way in whi

joining me now are clarence page and e.j. dionne. thank you both for being with me tonight. >> glad to be with you, reverend. >> clarence, a majority of americans want reform. why don't the republicans see this. >> well, the congressional republicans are being heavily pressured not only by the anti-rhino surge, the republican in name only, the appearance that former senator snow was talking about, but also they are worried about primary fights that they are going to have to fight for ballot position in the primary and that's because of gerrymandering and we've got so many red districts out there that any move towards the middle is viewed as a weakness and in the long run is hurting the party. republicans believe that. sensible republicans do. >> now, e.j., clarence mentioned the republicans in congress. but a brand-new poll shows just how bad the republican brand is doing. just 19% approve of the job congressional republicans are doing. a full 71% disapprove of these republicans in congress that clarence is referring to but at the sa

c-span: we're about out of time, but on page 144 you mention clarence thomas this way, "clarence thomas, who has since been named to succeed thurgood marshall." when was the last day you had to write something in this book? >> guest: that day. he had just been named. the galleys were open until almost the end, but if my thesis was true, there's no way that the book wasn't going to be out of date very soon because the scandals continue at a steady pace. c-span: but clarence thomas is discussed at great length in here for what reason? >> guest: he was involved in another scandal, a very different one. it had nothing to do with sex. it had to do with accusations that he had lied to congress during an investigation of the eeoc, of which he was chairman, and he came out of that pretty well. i don't think he did lie. c-span: but it involved, what, a senator -- a couple of senators? >> guest: it was a couple of senators, but the main one was melcher who said that thomas had withheld information about the eeoc's treatment of age discrimination cases. probably the opposite was true; that is, tho

clarence gideon was involved in the justice system since he was a kid. he had been getting in trouble. >> trouble seemed to find gideon. literally small change had gone miss ing from this cigarette machine, maybe $5 total. that's the pool hall there on the bottom. some wine, some beer and a few bottles of coca-cola were gone. the witnesses saw gideon that night with pockets full of change. gideon found himself facing serious time in prison. >> i have no council >> why do you not have council? >> i would like someone to represent me. >> i would have to deny you request to a point you council in this case. >> gideon,000 this was unfair. >> by asking the court to appoint a lawyer, gideon thought he had the right to counsel. >> this right is a basic right to in in in the constitution because the threat that is presented by imprisonment and even execution is a threat that the government should allow to have. >> gideon had to represent himself because the state of florida denied a lawyer. the entire trial lasted a day before he was found guilty and sentenced t

and clarence jones comes into the picture.his attorney who has been on the show it a number of times. he ends up sneaking this letter out of the jail cell, we are told. tell me about plants and dr. king and how the letter got out. >> clarence begins to smuggle .ut some of these jottings he was being asked to stuff these jottings into his pants. there is a little bit of comedic theater going on here. it out to wyatt tee walker who is really the man who supervises the production of the letter. tote walker is able decipher king's scrawl. he is making these arguments and their are at -- and there are arrows and arabesques. they're trying to figure it out. there is a 17-year-old woman from a gala, georgia who is typing it up. dr.they are saying that king can preach good, but he can't write because they can't figure out what he is saying. grandioses a document with a backstage that is a comedic and logistical nightmare in some ways. in a few days, king has access to other people than clarence jones. so they have a draft back to him

clarence, the pressure against gun reform is incredibly intense, as you know. politico reports a rand paul backed group is now attacking fellow republicans for being too weak on gun rights, including majority leader eric cantor. so no matter what the public wants, they can't give one iota or it would be political suicide just to david sirota's point. >> yeah. david is right. and the problem here for the president and for those who want a sane gun policy, in my view, is that we're in -- we're facing an off year election now, which is electorate tends to be more conservative. you've also got states like colorado, which are actually purple states. they can go either way. they went for obama this time again with a lot of hard work on his part. but part of the reason why he's making this tour around these red leaning states is to try to stiffen the spine of those who are sympathetic to the cause of background checks, which about 80% of the public now looks like are. a majority of republicans are. >> 90%. >> but the problem is that, yeah, the problem is that you've g

i'm not kidding, clarence.ion to the works of the lord. and this lord, by any chance, have an earthly physical agent? yes. and would this heavenly helper, by any chance, be the reverend orville c. tarbrush? now, look, clarence, if you don't wanna help me with this, just say so, but i don't think it's necessary to ridicule my christian beliefs. - i didn't say-- - you were going to. and mary ann is supposed to start college in the fall, right? how you plan in covering her tuition? she'll already taken care off. she's getting a scholarship. to chico state? to the tarbrush bible institute. i've changed my plans for her. [music] walter, is something wrong? what gives you that idea? i don't know. you just seem so remote. it's just the way i happen to react to great news. some people do, "wahoo." i do remote. what news? what news are you talking about? oh, it's nothing much. it's just that doreen told me about that little change in your educational plans. about how your dad nuked the whole idea of sending you to chico

he said no and clarence earl gideon said while i am in titled to an attorney. the constitution guarantees my right to an attorney and the judge said no, it doesn't. you have to try yourself. the judge kindly coaxed gideon through the trial, but gideon lost and you know the laws are very complicated and going to court is very complicated and selecting a jury is very comp again. he kind of dump of a long and lost the case and was sent to prison from prison he hand wrote in pencil a semiliterate letter to the u.s. supreme court saying my right to an attorney has been violated. the supreme court had kind have been waiting for a case like this to come along. the timing was right. there had been several other cases that had come along that they had rejected and they accepted his case. in some ways it was interesting because they kind of stacked the deck in his favor by giving him an attorney who is this high-powered d.c. lawyer at the time. that was really to gideon's and at that and it was a sort of subtle thing from the u.s. supreme court to say we are really inter

. >> clarence earl gideon was a free man. the man who won a landmark supreme court case went to live a normal living with a job pumping gas. >> when i read where it says equal justice under law, i'm very inspired by that. i'm very comforted by that. but i know a lot of people are treated unfairly. i see it as something encouraging but i don't see it yet. >> it's written into constitution and established into the goal for society to reach for and live up to. people will fall short, rights can be ignored or even trampled. with nothing more than a pencil and knowledge. >> if you know your rights you can protect your rights. if you don't know your rights you can't. they will always be there. you can fight for them. that was gideon's story. he knew he had a right that was taken way from him and he fought to get it back. >> if you are wondering how it is they had a televised proceeding of the gideon trial they reenacted it on television and they had gideon and the judges play themselves. now i would like to you meet chris kearney,

and clarence earl gideon said well i am entitled to an attorney. the constitution guarantees my right to an attorney. the judge said no, it doesn't, you have to yourself. he coaxed him through the trial, but d-tn lost and was a fairly enact. infil walz are very complicated. selecting a jury is very complicated. he kind of bumbled along and lost his case and was sent to prison. from prison he had wrote in pencil a sort of semiliterate letter to the supreme court saying my right to an attorney has been violated. i deserve an attorney if i am charged with a crime in this country. the supreme court had kind of been waiting for a case like this to come along. it seemed like the timing was right. there had been several other cases that had come along and they accepted his case. in some ways a was interesting because they kind of stacked the deck in his favor by appointing him this attorney who was this very, very high-powered d.c. lawyer at the time, and that was really to his benefit and it was a subtle signal from the supreme court that they were reall

is there still a future in renewable energy, clarence? >> yeah, there is or they wouldn't be in it in the first place. we know that for the future we need to lower our oil dependen see, but what this demonstrates, bp is caving to pressure from their stockholders, which is predictable, because when you gauge basic research there is no foreseeable profit turnaround, and -- unless you get real lucky, and so you need some government subsidy which is why we've had government programs to subsidize wind energy. there's kind of a pull-back indicative of why china is way ahead of us on this technology and will continue to be unless we offer some kind of help. >> this is a well intentioned effort to diversify on the part of bp. but why should they? they're fat and happy with all the tax credits they still get from the federal government. when i saw bp come up, i thought you were going to address the oil spill in arkansas where the pipeline with the tar sands oil has taken -- >> yeah, i know you would. >> right. >> all you environmentalists. >> when

let's go to clarence in texas. clarence. >> caller: jim, this is clarence. i'm a first-time caller.t do you think of rockwell collins? >> rockwell collins was hurt today by the textron news. people ex-trap laitd the problems at textron cessna to rockwell collins. i actually think rockwell collins is a buy. i'm not going toex trap lait what happened to textron. you go to tom in michigan. tom. >> caller: gentext. gntx. >> i don't want to be levered to the auto industry. i think that stock -- it is time to ring the register. you can buy lower. jan in florida. >> caller: hey. this is jan from pember pines, florida. how are you doing? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: wonderful. a while back you said to buy buy buy. travelers insurance. trv. i listened to you. i picked it up in the low 60s. it's sitting around 85. what should i do now? what are your thoughts? >> i would actually buy more. i think j. fishman is the best -- no offense, mr. benmosche, but jay fishman is -- i know he would agree with me. the ceo of travelers is the best there is. it's going to 100 is my bet. and you ca

>> clarence thomas is wrong with almost every decision he makes, that has nothing to do with his race he deserves the names he's called. >> no, but he's wrong. >> sean: and, but i'm talking about the names, forget the policy. >> i said three times he ought not to be called names, but he ought to be called out as most of us do, with these decisions, these crazy decisions he makes. >> sean: tell dr. west i said hello. congratulations on the symposium, i wish i could be there. i hope you have a good weekend. >> thank you, sean, appreciate it. >> sean: coming up, he is back, someone the broadcasting board of governors thought to be good to have the controversial father flagger, and he'll speak at university day next month and i'm not kget great deals on g at bass pro shops. like this 300 yard spool of fishing line for under $4. redhead great plains shirts for under $15. and a 4 pack of adult universal life jackets for under $45. yeah? then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. silence. are you in

>> clarence thomas is wrong with almost every decision he makes, that has nothing to do with his racee deserves the names he's called. >> no, but he's wrong. >> sean: and, but i'm talking about the names, forget the policy. >> i said three times he ought not to be called names, but he ought to be called out as most of us do, with these decisions, these crazy decisions he makes. >> sean: tell dr. west i said hello. congratulations on the symposium, i wish i could be there. i hope you have a good weekend. >> thank you, sean, appreciate it. >> sean: coming up, he is back, someone the broadcasting board of governors thought to be good to have the controversial father flagger, and he'll speak at university day next month and i'm not kidding. they're caving under the public pressure. are a bit under sized then this will be a nice surprise. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ride to everyone it knows. rec max has mo passenger volume than competitor prius v and we haven't even mentioned... c-max also gets better mpg. say hi to the super fuel efficient f

he goes, i was talking to the duck. >> clarence is an older gentleman, old man you can call him. a giddy old man. happy. happy to be here. >> diagnosed with hyperverbal. we can't all be winners now, can we? have the to be people like me to make the real winners in life look really good. >> butterfield kind of jumps from one subject to another subject really quickly. he was really hard to follow in conversation. >> you know me, i'm kind of ignored. kind of being married for 26 years i'm really used to being ignored anyway. >> we start asking him direct questions. and he would answer about something completely off the wall that we weren't even talking about. >> i love germans. they're great. but you don't want to be locked in a cell with one for like five months. which i was. >> butterfield was an anomaly because just approaching him and just speaking with him, he's very jovial. he's very happy. but on the other hand, you start hearing details about his case and you have to wonder, what is this man's mind-set? because it's so dark. it's so disturbing. >> if i don't see 20 bucks you

attorney and scholar clarence jos was part of dr. king's inner circle and has written a book about the story behind the milestone i have a dream speech. jones sat down to tell things we never knew about king's life. >> i had never seen anything fwhin a voice, any person walking who had that power. >> clarence jones was a young attorney living in california personally asked about dr. martin luther king to come to alabama to join his legal team it was really my own personal, making of a disciple. >> in april, is the 1963 king was arrested and put in a birmingham jail. so were dozens of his very young followers. >> we were getting such pressure from the parents of the children to bail their children out. >> that is when actor hairy belafonte arranged for jones to meet with nelson rock feller who handed jones bail money, $100,000 from a family vault. >> he opened the door look inside of the vault. interest there is from floor to ceiling money. >> by now, dr. king's nonviolent movement had taken off. the next stop was nation's capital for

. >> his name is clarence earl gideon. he argued there could be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. he argued there should not be one kind of justice for the rich, another for the poor. gideon blew one note on his trumpet. he blew it over and over -- a man cannot get a fair trial without a lawyer. and because he would not retreat one wit from that position, this man, clarence gideon, has wrought a profound change in the course of american jurisprudence. >> gideon was a drifter with a criminal record, charged with breaking and entering and robbing a pool hall in florida. denied representation, he defended himself and was sentenced to five years in state prison. from his cell, he exercised his right to petition the supreme court for a fair hearing. when the justices ruled in gideon's favor, hundreds of prisoners who also had been denied their legal rights were freed or given new trials and our current system of public defenders was born. but 50 years later that system is

convenience store. >> actually, it's clarence's bar and grill. >> clarence's bar and grill, excuse me. >> which was one of the segregated establishments on the main street of chapel hill, franklin street. and it was right next to the trailways bus depot which was also still segregated at that time. >> talk about another generation looking at these photos and understanding what was happening in chapel hill in '61-'64. did you stay in touch with the folks of the moment? >> um, it there was a long time when i was working here in washington with. i was at the smithsonian for 29 years, and it wasn't until after i retired that we put these photographs together, and together with paul who wrote the text, we did the book. >> one more photo. to the right here is a gentleman wearing a sign, "i'm running for governor of alabama." >> taken on constitution avenue during the march on washington when the crowd that had amassed at the washington monument was walking up to the lincoln memorial to hear dr. king's speech and the speeches by others. >> we're speaking with jim wallace, photographer, and h

justice summit on march 19 to discuss ways to better fulfill gideon's promise justice for all where clarence combid gideon convicted to be stealing change at a pool hall. he wrote a petition to the supreme court from his jail cell arguing that his rights had been violated. he presented a victory for civil rights and justice. san francisco one of the first cities in the united states to establish a public defenders office opened it's doors in 1921. whereas gideon's promise lives on in the san francisco public defenders office which service 25,000 indigent people every year. whereas city of the san francisco joined with the public defenders and the legal aid lawyers to celebrate the right to counsel. therefore be it resolved the san francisco -- march 18th as gideon versus wayne right day as acknowledgment for the 50 years of the united states landmark decision as well as the work of the public defenders who continue to fulfill the rights. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the board of supervisors and the mayor's office as well. i would like to share with the public de

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it's called the street address, the clarence place but it's 178 towns end. it's on the chart. that's my only comment. do you think this might have captured some projects that didn't get their final statement of occupancy. >> you are highlighting an issue that is relevant. it's not perfect. one thing you are talking about is you will also see 690 stan yon on this list. a number of years ago you approved this as a mixed use project. authorizations were ultimately valid but the project that went ahead was a different project. while that project still appears on here is one that would be made effective again. we can assume that that won't happen owing to a subsequent project. >> i guess looking at this list in general i don't have a problem. if a 60-day window where people are ready to move forward and the fact that they have to get their permits in 18 months. i don't think every project will take advantage of this and if it gets people going, i like it because it's a tight 60-day and a year-and-a-half timeframe and the concern that people had in the past are delayed because i don

clarence, thanks for joining us. this is a film that underwent a lot of -- a few changes and then we understand this morning that chinese cinemas canceled all screenings of django unchained. we understand the official like is for technical reasons, but it's been stopped from being shown nationwide for the first time. now, i know you've only just -- you haven't been able to confirm that yourself, but it highlights just how difficult it is, doesn't it, for the a hollywood film to get a major release. why is that? >> i think it came as a very big surprise that terrentino's film was pulled from the cinemas because actually terrentino had done quite a bit in order to appease the mainland chinese sensors by toning down the bloodshed in order to accommodate the film in china. and also -- it is always quite arbitrary, the decisions being made by the mavenland chinese officials in terms of wa gets shown to the mainland chinese audiences. remember, earlier this year, the film skyfall, basically one of the scenes that was remov

we are told that richards had bought the plane that he was flying from one of clarence andrews heirs.et to his death, jon, it was gps coordinates from his cellphone that he had on him at the time to allow the search teams to find his body. jon: what a strange and sad story. thanks. jenna: a new study shows more kids are being diagnosed with fella gnome a the most dangerous form of skin cancer. the doctor is in with more on this growing threat and what you can do to protect your family. jenna: alarming new research on the health of american kid and teenagers. a new study suggesting more teens are being diagnosed with melanoma the most deadly form of skin cancer. experts say several factors could be at play here. spending too much time in the sun is key. we have the director of the furshine center. it's rare in children and teenagers, why is melanoma so rare? we think about it as an adult problem. why is it so rare in children? >> what we know about melanoma right now is increased sun exposure is something that predisposes someone to that medical louisiana moment a. in children it's the

clarence thomas is a perfect one who checked a box for affirmative action in college. >> michael: whyre some high-profile women out there rejecting the notion of being a feminist. >> part of it is the label. i wrote a piece last year about how -- titled it how gloria steinam forced me out of the closet. and a couple of my friends were like do you have something to tell us? and i said do but it's probably not what you think, but i am a feminist. and i did some soul searching about watching the documentary on gloria steinam that year and realized that i like other women -- some responsible res on feminist women. they did a great job opening doors, kicking some of them down for us but there has been this evolution towards narrowly defining feminism in a certain way, and if you don't agree 100%, then you can't call yourself a feminist. i'm a feminist can't have a problem with the comment and allowed the blowback to be if you are a woman and a feminist, you have to call the president out. and i don't agree with that. i felt like wait a minute you don't own the word feminist. i can define i

house press secretary even wait another controversy insisting again today that treasury handles clarencete house had nothing to do with it no matter what jay-z said adding, i guess nothing rhymes with treasury. not bad. not bad. actually, exceptional for jay carney. up next, democrats zeroed in on gun-control but a number -- ignored a number of real issues that americans could benefit from resolution on. the psychology behind washington's decision to ignore real problems while taking on the really big issues next. ♪ [ buzzer ] hot dog? i'm buying. i'll use my capital one venture card with double miles you can actually use to fly any airline anytime. ♪ what are you doing? i'm saving one for later. my body keeps it warm. it's like a little hot dog steamer in there. go ahead, touch my chest. no. ♪ what's in your wallet? you got any mustard in there? ♪ ♪ lou: joining is now to psychoanalyze what appears to be an extra cut -- an exercise in futility in washington d.c., psychologist dr. dale atkins and psychotherapist dr. rob ludwig. great to have you both here. i have to ask, what does it say

while the conservatives oppose any life long union between two men, unless it is antonin scalia and clarencehomas. what the hell was that? speaker john boehner is not here tonight. speaker banner and president obama are still struggling to get along. president obama and john boehner, kind of like a blind date between anderson cooper and rachel maddow. in theory, they understand each other's position, but deep down, you know nothing is ever going to happen. [laughter] [applause] [gavel pounds] speaking of nothing happening, we are all hoping for nothing to happen with north korea. that got me wondering, what is with kim jong-un? in the past, we have had really scary enemies like saddam hussain and hitler. now, suddenly our nemesis is a pouty teenage boy who dresses like rosie o'donnell at the emmys. kim jong-un does not understand that we aren't afraid of him. what that guy doesn't get is that we already have an unstable peninsula that will ultimately bring down america. it is called florida. [laughter] [applause] yes it is. yes, president obama has a lot on his plate right now. he is at the

house press secretary even wait another controversy insisting again today that treasury handles clarence nothing to do with it no matter what jay-z said adding, i guess nothing rhymes with treasury. not bad. not bad. actually, exceptional for jay carney. up next, democrats zeroed in on gun-control but a number -- ignored a number of real issues that americans could benefit from resolution on. the psychology behind washington's decision to ignore real problems while taking on the really big issues next. ♪ so let's break down this play. charles? uh, charles couldn't make it. his single miles card blacked him out here and here. he should have used... the capital one venture card. he's coming to us from home. hey fellas... hey baby, you want mama to iron your undies? nice tightie whities. i didn't know mrs. barkley made quilts. really? looks like a circus tent. is that the best you got? now if you put this, with this, you have a sailboat. what's in your wallet? ♪ lou: joining is now to psychoanalyze what appears to be an extra cut -- an exercise in futility in washington d.c., psychologist d

in favor and the conservatives oppose any life-long sacred union between two men it's scalia and clarenceas. >> john: if mitt romney had one november that would have been victoria jackson hosting. where my friends does conan rank. i know they don't come anywhere near elayne boosier. how did he do. >> he did fine. the halibut joke was funny. but he should have said cnn reported that the halibut had already been caught. >> the brown halibut. >> a much better joke. >> he seemed a little stiff. >> john: that's conan. >> but conan is not a stand-up comedian. he went right from being a comedy writer, the point i want to make even if he has a bit of an awkwardness as a performer last night what he had was a ton of great jokes and great jokes are really what make it happen. >> i just felt he was rushing it. i felt like, look, he's been a monologist for 15 years. he should be able to deliver it. sarah palin is more comfortable in a room of lesbian vegetarian vegetarianists. >> when he started i thought it wasn't going to go well, but i was impressed at how funny. >> john: besides yourself who woul