you're on with clarence page. go ahead. >> good morning. i'm a wanted to say disabled veteran and i come from a military family. i wasck in the 30's, when born and on up through my after war.it was war and then we got into world war ii. and then all my uncles, which came from a large family, were in it also. and i didn't go to school with black, brown or yellow. school with whites. and i had a different culture. later, when i went into the military, i soon found that they were my best friends. they backed me up wherever i to be backed up, in whatever decision i made in the military. can't say that it was the wrong thing to do, because it for us to come together, all of us. not justwhite people, brown people, and not just black people. that we need to put aside our differences and work together. world would be better if we forget all the niceties of life and look at that are not as fortunate as we are. the generational gap, i see a lot of young people that need to be talked to. need to be told what it is hard way.ings the and if you ever lea

once justice ginsburg whose 86, clarence thomas is in his 70's. once those older folks leave the court i think they will be a little more open to it. there is a website ready to go that can do live audio. make it happen. i think that will be a good start and we will get to cameras a few years after that. in independence, missouri. caller: i'm glad you are having the court -- to this show. the court has become way too political. handing down such damaging decisions as citizens united. corporation ever be an individual? it's not a human being. and i think gerrymandering and those things that came down on the wrong side, we should get rid of all gerrymandering and they didn't do that either. i think our supreme court has become way too political. we should take the selection process. judges randomly decide who the next supreme court justice to be because who better to pick a justice than people who are already in the business of maintaining our constitutional rights. >> kind of like a cardinals picking the pope. that's not a bad idea. am all in favor

. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas.e concerned about the accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill enters the room now. >> democrats were going to challenge clarence thomas on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not going to be an issue. but i think the anita hill allegations brought race back into the picture. >> the senate judiciary committee is meeting to hear evidence on sexual harassment charges that have been made against judge clarence thomas. >> he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. >> this seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of all-white men. and it created quite a spectacle. >> this is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> clarence thomas decided to fight back by invoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being b

i wish i could've talked to clarence page. goalcolm x that to oxford university or harvard university or james baldwin, another african-american. they were considered extremists and radicals at that time. they were allowed to talk to college kids, mainly white college kids, upper income, middle-class, of where they opened their minds and listened to these gentlemen with regards to what blacks were going through in america at that time. we no longer have that. if you have a gay guy who was a conservative think goes to a public college in california, these spoiled brats start rioting. professors.ng from i look at my age when i was in college -- host: to bring you back to your home, when you have a gathering, do you have differing mindsets? caller: we have different mindsets. when people start raising their voice, that is when i say this discussion is ended. we can talk civilly and vehemently disagree with each other. that is what has happened in this country. i am voting for president trump again. i am a union member of 36 years

clarence thomas hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign against the affordable care act. her name certainly made his way into her household. her husband not only did not refuse himself but believed she wanted him to vote. how in the world is that no class is thomases bought ten paid for and shouldn't he be thrown off the courtai and also tgiven kavanaugh his demonstrae lies doing his hearings to be on the court, should he be some.of the board. so the only way to remove a justice of the supreme court as you know is through impeachment and removal similar to the way the president would agree remove. currently there is no recourse or reprimand or inexcusable behaviorsco that he referred to see that i part of impeachment. right now is being debated. the democratic and republican circles. singer is this judicial chronic neck and lower judges and black coat judges can they be rebuilt of cases, ricardo to mandatory sensitivity training in the all these things getting done and there's a whole judicial process investigation is occur for misconduct investigation with her, doesn't e

once justice ginsburg whose 86, clarence thomas is in his 70's.e those older folks leave the court i think they will be a little more open to it. there is a website ready to go that can do live audio. make it happen. i think that will be a good start and we will get to cameras a few years after that. in independence, missouri. caller: i'm glad you are having the court -- to this show. the court has become way too political. handing down such damaging decisions as citizens united. corporation ever be an individual? it's not a human being. and i think gerrymandering and those things that came down on the wrong side, we should get rid of all gerrymandering and they didn't do that either. i think our supreme court has become way too political. we should take the selection process. judges randomly decide who the next supreme court justice to be because who better to pick a justice than people who are already in the business of maintaining our constitutional rights. >> kind of like a cardinals picking the pope. that's not a bad idea. am all in favor of

do you have issue with the way he performed during the hearing of clarence thomas? guest: i do believe if you are in charge, as he was as chair of the committee, that you should be accountable for how it was conducted. and it was not conducted at all in a fair means to anita hill. as mr.t is my point, biden also did, who voted for downar in iraq, he tore one place where we do need a wall, to keep accountability in. when they tore the wall down, wall street destroyed my constituency's livelihood in the great recession. but not one politician for the hearing of anita hill for that war in iraq, which is two decades of unaccountable consequences, or the devastation the great recession did to our nation has ever accounted for as they were responsible for that happening. thisieve very much that unaccountable leadership is response over the lack of trust in america today, of who we are and what we can be when we are united, because we have lost faith in our leadership down there. i do think that hearing was not handled well by someone who had been in office for four terms.

do you have an issue with the during the rmed hearing of clarence thomas? >> i do believe, just like the ship, if you're in charge as he was as chair of should mittee, that you be accountable for how it was conducted. at all as not conducted in a fair means to anita hill. those,t's my point about as mr. biden also did, who voted in iraq.war tore down the one place where we definitely do need a wall to and greed out accountability in, and then when hey tore that name down, aptly named wall street destroyed my constituency's livelihoods in great recession but not one politician, not one, for the hill, for that a war in iraq, which left two ecades of unaccountable consequences, or the devastation that this great recession did to accounted has ever for themselves. to be -- as they were that happening. very much that accountability, this naccountability leadership is responsible for the lack of trust in america today, with whom we are and what we can be united together because we've lost faith in our leadership down there so i do hearing was not handled well by

and one of the reasons was the clarence thomas, the hearings for him to be a judge for the u.s. supreme court. and thomas was accused by anita hill, a law professor, of sexual harassment when they the worked together in the eecoc. her accusations against thomas re, in al's mind, and he's a republican senator, he's involved in these hearings in deciding whether clarence thomas should be on the supreme court, anita hill brings up these accusations of sexual innuendos that thomas was saying to her. and al is saying, well, did he ever touch you? no. and then after she left eeoc in 1983, she still would talk to clarence thomas once in a while. >> what did you say this man said to you? why in god's name, when he left his position of power or status or authority over you and you left it in 1983, why in god's name would you ever speak to a man like that the rest of your life? >> that's a very good question. and i'm sure that i cannot answer that to your satisfaction. that is one of the things that i have tried to do today. i have suggested that i was afraid of retaliation. i was afraid

these different individual silos, so you have these different courts, really, you've got the queen, clarence charles, the duke and duchess of cambridge, andy duke and duchess of cambridge, andy duke and duchess of cambridge, andy duke and duchess of sussex. they are creating their own pr stories for themselves and maybe some of those stories compete against each other. what you haven't got, because you've got a much bigger pool of people, is you haven't got one person who is completely in charge. and what this article states is that there was a time when that was the case. there was one major person overseeing everything. now that person has been slowly edged out, it seems everything else is up for grabs. and perhaps nobody knows what everyone else is doing. this interview has classed with a couple of other royal engagements during the week stop when harry and meghan either interview a couple of weeks ago to tom bradbury, that was felt to class with prince charles being overseas. so the different courts are now getting different messages are at different times, competing with each other, and

clarence thomas serÍa un interrogante. tres mÁs votarÍan por la continuidad del programa.te, cuando se conozca la decisiÓn. el supremo escucharÁ maÑana los argumentos en la demanda hernÁndez versus meza. lasa familia de sergio hernÁndez, un joven que muriÓ baleado en la frontera en 2010, ha querido demandar al agente de la patrulla fronteriza que le disparÓ a joven de 15 aÑos, desde territorio estadounidense. hable con la madre sergio sobre la intenciÓn de la familia de exigir una reparaciÓn por el daÑo causado. >> hay otras formasde haberlo tenido, de haberlo agarrado. no creo que sergio hubiera tenido mÁs fuerzas que Él porque él estaba entrenado para matar, sergio no. ilia: si se diera una decisiÓn positiva eel sistema, en la que un funcionario dispara de este tercer estadounidense y mata a una persona en territorio mexicano. el juez federal nichols dictaminÓ hoy que el mandatario no podÍa demandar a funcionarios legales de nueva york en el tribunal de la capital del paÍs. los abogados de trump estÁn tratando de evitar que sus declaraciones de impuestos del estado de nu

thank you very much, christie and mike. >> thank you so much, clarence. well, thank you for being here. another year, 34th annual cityfiscal conditions. it's hard to believe. mike and i need to pinch ourselves every time we say it's may again. now here we are at exciting times. how many of you have read the city fiscal conditions report this year or over the past couple of years? awesome. that's pretty much all of you. thank you. i think the key point to city fiscal conditions, although i know some of you have heard headlines around recession and whatnot, we'll dig into that a little bit, but really city fiscal conditions and the trends we see with city fiscal health is that, you know, they're a slow-moving ship. if we see big junctures and big changes in trends relating to city finances, we know that we need to go back to the drawing board. so, what we're going to talk about today is the trends we've been seeing in city fiscal conditions, you know, again over the past 34 years and even more recently since the prior recession. and we'll talk about how wha

today, we take up the question implicitly raised by justice clarence thomas. do the present limits placed on the press serve the common good? we have assembled a distinguished panel to discuss and debate the matter, because at the heritage foundation we like to have debates on these difficult and contentious questions. speaking first will be my colleague, arthur milikh. arthur is the associate director of the simon center principles and politics are at the heritage foundation and he conducts research on america's founding principles. he also gives talks on the tenets of the american political traditions to the public at large and public officials in washington. he is written in a variety of outlets including an essay i would commend to your attention. he published an essay on benjamin franklin's critique of the freedom of the press and national affairs a few years ago. it's excellent. arthur would be followed by elizabeth locke who argue against the sullivan really. she is a highly accomplished defamation lawyer and litigator who devotes a practice to represen

and marilyn monroe to senator gary hart monkey business boat ride the supreme court justice clarence thomas' supreme sexual harassment nothing it's a wash ride the supreme court justice clarence thomas' supreme sexual harassment nothing gets the washington press corps more jazzed up and a good sex scandal except maybe an impeachment thanks to him to the press corps more jazzed up in the good sex scandal except maybe an impeachment thanks to former president bill clinton we got both a sex scandal and an impeachment back in the 1990 s. former president bill clinton we got both a sex scandal and an impeachment back in the 1990 s. but in recent weeks we've seen a sex scandal here on capitol hill that finally brought to light a very serious but in recent weeks we've seen a sex scandal here on capitol hill that finally brought to light a very serious issue that has victimized many women around the world in the digital age but yet to raise its ideas to victimize the many women around the world in the digital age but yet to raise its ugly head here in the nation's capital revenge porn heinou

today, we take up the question implicitly raised by justice clarence thomas. do the present limits placed on the press serve the common good? and we have assembled, pardon me, a distinguished panel to discuss and debate the matter because at the heritage foundation we like to have debates on these difficult and contentious questions. speaking first will be my colleague arthur millic who will set up the framework through which we should think about the power of the press. arthur is the associate director of the beacon at simon center for principles and politics here at the heritage foundation and he conducts research on america's founding principles. he also gives talks on the tenets of the american political tradition, to the public at large and public officials here at washington and he has written a variety of outlets and he published on the freedom of the press and national affairs three years ago. it's excellent. arthur will be followed by libby lock, and libby is a highly accomplished defamation lawyer and commercial litigator who devotes her practice to

todo el mundo, se para todo el mundo cuando entran los jueces, solo uno de ellos no hizo preguntas, clarenceenÍsima seÑal, porque se dan cuenta de la magnitud que la decisiÓn tiene. >> vamos a escuchar las palabras de luis cortÉz que representa a una de las personas que se escucharon sus demandas. >> argumentos difÍciles, pero salimos confiados, que verÍan nuestro punto de vista. >> de acuerdo a la forma que preguntaban ¿algo te daba una direcciÓn en la tendencia de ese juez?. >> es difÍcil de saber, pero si sabemos que le preguntaron a los abogados del gobierno, enseÑe donde el gobierno considerÓ las consecuencias que iban a pasar, que tomaron responsabilidad de la decisiÓn y no escondidos bajo el pretexto y se le hizo muy difÍcil contestar al abogado del gobierno. >> de los jueces cinco son cargados al lado republicano. >> la estrategia siempre es convencer a todos, espero sabemos que la idea es que convencer a lo mÍnimo uno de los cinco, por eso tenemos un experto, un abogado experto que Él histÓricamente ha sido republicano pero Él tambien se ha juntado en esta batalla y pudo explicarle

against working families and tried to humiliate anita hill and brought the claims against justice clarence thomas. that was a tough position today that senator never would have been but accountability for doing what is right for people when it does have consequences for yourself. the president on down endorsed him and i was shut out from going to the wards in philadelphia i went to over 200 african-american churches and they welcomed me and i went to the historical colleges and back universities that i was 40 points down in the people of pennsylvania republicans and democrats alike agreed with me and then i one for comfort you learn a lesson in politics is better to offend god than a politician because god gives forgiveness so with very little support from my party several years later they literally gave eight times the monetary support at the primary as a democrat then i got. i went home for guy was fortunate because my daughter's brain cancer came back in my daughter - - and my wife travels and then i could be there at all times with her and i was fortunate because of that but i also kno

and all of its excesses when it comes to wealth inequality i don't care what color they are at all clarence thomas is the beautiful black man and i agree with him 2.5 percent of the time. it's a question of morality and spirituality in the same as tubercle obama if he's tight when he is tied to wall street when he's dropping drones when he's tied to subvert state i gotta bring critique to bear just finishing off the election discussion looking back at 2016 for a moment back then off to saunders lost to clinton he backed hillary and campaigned for you refused to vote for hillary clinton and voted for the green party presidential candidate jill stein given how narrow trumps electoral college victory over clinton was in the specially in those 3 states and given how utterly all for the trump presidency has been kids in cages the muslim by the wall the white nationalism on full display surely you must now regret that decision not to back in your eyes the lesser of 2 evils hillary clinton in 2016 well i don't think that my vote would have been the one vote to push hillary killed clinton across th

so when an american p.o.w., like african-american clarence adams, who is one of the 21 p.o.w.s who decides to stay in china, when he announces after the signing of the ceasefire that he is now repatriating to the u.s. as an act of protest against jim crow society in america, we can understand how the experience of threatened violence by white supremacy was neither abstract nor distant for american p.o.w.s in p.o.w. camps along the yalu river. so at first glance, it appears that these, the u.s. military really incorrectly theorizes the oriental interrogator. but i think that the deeper anxiety, at the heart of this inquiry, was that the oriental interrogator might have correctly theorized the american/u.s., the american p.o.w., or soldier, or citizen. in fact, the underlying fear i guess we could sum up in one question, would be what if the oriental knew the american better than he did himself? so in the u.s. foreign policy history, the korean war often garners significance because it was the catalyst in effect for the implementation of nsc 68, what is often called the blueprint of the nati

this is the first vacancy since clarence thomas was nominated in 1991.f one partysident making a nomination to the senate by the other party. again, what happened was entirely predictable. president obama's white house -- inl, an event which which i took part with her, they recommended the exact same thing, had situations been reversed. >> what if there is an opening on the supreme court in 2020? what should senator mcconnell do? >> he has been quite clear, he will move expeditiously to confirm the nominee. the opposite party situation is critical to the situation in 2016, that the voters decide because we had a split situation. you wouldn't have that situation. >> senator mcconnell joined president trump on stage and lavelle and touted -- louisville and touted the judicial nominees. here's what he said. >> working together, we are changing the federal courts forever. [cheers and applause] tonobody has done more change the court system in the history of our country than donald trump. [cheers and applause] mr. president, we are going to keep on doing it.

this was the same vacancy since clarence thomas was nominated in 1991 in which you had a president of one party making a nomination to a senate controlled by the other party. exactly the configuration that invites conflict and what happened was entirely predictable and president obama's white house counsel, an event in which i took part with her, said that she would have recommended the same thing, had this situation been reversed. host: what if there's an opening on the supreme court of vacancy in 2020, what should senator mcconnell do? guest: he's been quite clear what he'll do. he'll move expeditiously to confirm that nominee. you would not have the opposite-party situation which was critical to the situation in 2016 when he said, let the voters decide, because we have a split situation. under this hypothetical, you don't have the split situation. host: senator mcconnell joined president trump onstage in louisville on monday night at the campaign rally there. and touted the success rate so far in the senate. of judicial nominees. here's what he said. >> working together we are chan

. >> thank you, clarence. thank you all for being here. another year and it's pretty hard to believe that mike and i pinch ourselves each time we say it. now here we are. how many of you have read the city fiscal year report for the past couple of years? awesome. that is pretty much all of you. thank you. i think the key point to mention although i know you've heard the headlines around a recession and will get to that in a bit but city fiscal conditions and the trends we see with city fiscal health is that there are slow-moving ships. if we see big junctures and big changes and trends relating to city finances we know we need to go back to the drawing board prayed what we will talk about today is the trends we have been been in conditions again over the past 34 years and most recently since the prior recession and we will talk about how what we are seen aligns with the realities we saw in city fiscal conditions around the time of previous recessions. before we get into topline results i how this report developed. worked with the finance o

photography led her to work on the expeditions that mapped the western landscape and the career of clarence king. her accounts of king's life "passing strange: a gilded age returns to the biographical arts she learned about inviting about guilt then -- gilpin. what animates "passing strange" though is race, the color line that snakes its way through the post-emancipation united states. her own work and away, a survey of that color line. shapes the web-based collaborative that she led him princeton on slavery. , left usphs, it videos with a campus changed by the materials they have found to record and represent enslaved people in the history of that university. end this intellectual wedding toast by turning to las tell's other history and you one story about your president as a gambler. you wonder about this. this worked in santa fe -- come see me, she insisted, sure that the beauties of the southwest were what might win three sold needed at the time, and we took ourselves on a gambling adventure to the camel rock casino in the pre-technological days. we invested $20 in quarters and armed wi

also, it set the stage for why he was so tremendously loyal to clarence thomas's nomination as well. i believe he is inaccurately depicted as treating dan quayle as some kind of baby, and that could not be further than the truth. he went against the advice of , went with quayle in a surprise move and treated him as an equal because he himself had been a vice president and he wanted the same treatment for his own vice president. they had a close relationship, wayi think this is not the he looked at dan quayle. philip probably has more. thatis is about a speech quayle gave after the tower nomination was defeated. i take a more sympathetic view to the cartoonist than mary kay does. i agree with mary kate said that bush tried to treat quayle the way he thought a vice president should be treated, but do not think that dan quayle was one of the key insiders of the bush administration. meetings.a lot of bush treated him appropriately, but he was not a very influential person in the senior ranks of the administration, so this is early 89. tower has gone up and been defeated. quayle gave a qu

my name is lance clarence. in order for the bureau of urban forestry to succeed in affectively growing and managing the forest, it will have to move away from this current anecdotal tree knowledge and begin using factual data. i began researching tree data when they began a city-wide ficus tree. i received one report prepared by a buff preparer. buff has no choice but to rely on anecdotal data rather than hard data. every survey by an outside company was completed in 2017 at a cost of $25,000 to the taxpayers. the tree rated all trees from removal to routine prune, which is the best. the surveyed showed buff had downgraded 85% of city-wide ficus trees to priority removal. the every tree s.f. survey showed there are several tree types that more of a threat to public safety, acacia, pitasporum, and london plain. as far as i know, buff has not targeted these trees. unfortunately, buff has not made good use of the ever tree survey, keeping it at arm's length. in an op-ed, muhammad nuru and carla short, mentioned th

coming up thursday morning, syndicated columnist clarence page discusses the generational divide in america. then republican media strategist adam goodman on the impeachment push on what it means for campaign 2020. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. ♪ democratic presidential candidate senator, lie harris -- anator kamala harris attends party in knoxville, iowa, live coverage of 12:20 eastern on c-span. >> watched an extended weekend of book tv this holiday weekend. here are some of our features. starting thursday at 1:30 p.m. eastern, nikki haley recounts her time as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. in the trump administration. >> i would always make a point to ask, when we would go to an area, to sit in a group with a group of women. no offense to the fellows in the audience, but the women had a way of, you could sit down with them. they could tell you what the problem was, how they got to that point, and how to fix it. at 3:20 p.m. eastern, investigative journalist ronan farrow details efforts to stifle his reporting. >

university as well as american university and he is the author of the narrative on the inventor of clarence king and portraits of a nation that today we are here to celebrate his new book published by simon & schuster. we are honored to have him speak today on foreign and american life. welcome. [applause] >> i have so many microphones going on and now this one is on. thank you for the lovely introduction and everything you do for the barnum museum. thank you for everything you do and the people that work with you have done to help me in writing this book. i also want to thank adrian the curator and just throughout the years i was working on a book that offered me encouragement and lots of good information and helped me a lot with the photographs in the book later on. i'm also pleased to be able to tell you that the great barnum scholar at this time or any time arthur is here in the front row. [applause] he could have been forgiven for not being welcoming of someone who wrote a letter and said i'd like to write a biography of barnum. he said i did that and i did it pretty well, not pretty w

doctor christine ford saying it was a need who inspired her to testify before congress who accused clarencehomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing in 1991. katie hill made her final speech on the house for offering an apology to those who trusted her with the office. california democrat is resigning amid an ethics probe and whether she had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer in her congressional office. hill has denied the claims but admitted to a relationship with a campaign staffer. xmas at photos of hill surfaced online without her consent in what he'll call the senior campaign waged by her husband who she says is abusive. she says she's leaving because of a double standard and misogynistic culture. >> i'm leaving because i didn't want to be peddled by papers and blogs and websites used by shameless operatives for the duty is to got her politics i have ever seen and the right-wing media, to expand their audience. >> congress is a woman's till final act voting in favor of the impeachment inquiry resolution. the medal of honor represents values of courage, commi

. >>> from watergate to iran contra, clarence thomas, we have seen decades of public hearings in thisountry. public hearings in the runup to a house impeachment vote begin on wednesday. jeremy diamond, for those who haven't been following every twist and turn, give us just a quick run-through. >> that is the goal of these public impeachment hearings is to bring all of this to life. there have been these closed-door depositions for weeks. we've seen the transcripts of many of these depositions come out. but for many americans it may be easier to grasp if this comes out in public. you can see these officials on television actually talking about these allegations. we will have the first two key witnesses on wednesday. top of the list, of course, is the current top u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor. he has made those allegations of a quid pro quo. here is a key line from his testimony so far. he has said that was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. that again is kind of the crux of this q

as supreme court justice clarence thomas is reportedly blasting biden's handling of his 1991 confirmationre he was accused of sexual harassment. saying that biden's questioning targeted him for his views on abortion, which biden's team denies. joining me now, james pinto, "boston globe" political reporter. did biden's handling of the hearing, could actually come back to haunt him in 2020, do you think? >> this documentary where he made these comments comes out in may. she come closer to be the nominee for president, i think evil. anita hill is still very clearly upset with joe biden even though he called her and didn't exactly apologize, but she's been pretty vocal, that she's pretty upset with him. this is the wednesday he's going have to do is should he become the nominee, or even if we get further down the line on this nomination fight. this is long and expensive record in the u.s. senate. they were there moments like this, but democrats will obviously want to point out that he voided for the war in iraq , that he voted for nafta. you go down the line on the issues come up they may hav

in fact, i would compare it to 1991 when clarence thomas says saided thurgood marshall. go into an election year so the politicking around any kind of confirmation battle would be so ratcheted up and if you recall back in 2016 when antonin scalia suddenly passed away and president obama tried to name a successor, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked that nomination. this time around though, martin, he has said that if president trump tries to put a third justice on the supreme court, he would ensure that that individual went through. >> in the meantime, we wish her good health. joan, i imagine that she is a woman -- i don't know her personally, but that she thrives on doing the job she does. >> she does. in fact, what she said is that -- first of all, she feels a real sense of mission. she's always been like that. she came up, first made a national name for herself as a woman's rights advocate. she's been on the court for 26 years and she has talked about how reading briefs, doing the work of the supreme court has helped her recover along the way. so this is he

latest to take a pot shot is clarence thomas. new documentary featuring thomas in own words.the justice's contentious confirmation at a time when biden was chairman of the senate judiciary committee. at that time thomas called the hearing a modern day lynching. in the new documentary, thomas adds, quote, i felt as though in my life i had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic towards me. we were told oh, it's going to be the bigot in the pickup truck the klansman the rural a sheriff sheriff, it turned out ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern day liberal. impeachment trial in the senate should it come to that. senators sanders, warren, harris and klobuchar will be among the jurors. all miss valuable campaign time as they have to sit in judgment of the president. dana. >> dana: that will be something to see, indeed. doug mckelway, thank you. a partner at seven letter communications and advisor to paul ryan and zac friend obama america spokesperson santa cruz county, california. zac, you always have the best back drop of any guest tha

>> they can exhume clarence. they can bring anyone to be on their side. it's not going to change the facts what the president did. he tried to leverage our taxpayer dollars to have a foreign government help him in his election. >> do you need any more witnesses, or are you ready to go forward? >> we have asked john bolton and mick mulvaney and our approach here is that if there are witnesses who can help the president, the president will allow them to come forward and he won't block them. he's blocked a number of them from coming forward. if they don't come forward, we'll look at that two ways. it may be a consciousness of guilt the president doesn't want them to testify because it would hurt them and, two, under consideration for obstruction of congress as it relates to another article of impeachment. >> congressman eric swalwell, great to see you in new york. appreciate it. alisyn? >> democrats take control of virginia's state legislature for the first time in a generation. the state's governor ralph northam joins us next. it ignites our imagination. in

frankly, in recent decades going all the way back to 1991 when clarence thomas succeeded thurgood marshall. so the difference would be striking. it would probably mean much swifter, more competent action on the part of a conservative majority against things like abortion rights, affirmative action, gay rights. you would have that, and then just think of where we're at right now on the cusp of an election year. and i probably don't need to remind you what happened in 2016 when scalia died suddenly and president obama nominated someone who mitch mcconnell blocked from any consideration. we're not sure it willer come to that, but mitch mcconnell has said if a trump nominee comes forward, even in an election year, he would move that person as swiftly as possible on to the supreme court. >> we hope it doesn't come to that. joan, thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, the lawmaker leading the investigation into impeaching the president says that there is enough evidence to go to trial. >> there is a sense of urgency when you have a president threatening the integrity of our e

then you have justices on the far right, gorsuch, and joined presumably by clarence thomas who already shown that he's on that side. and right smack in the middle, when you go in and look up, it's john roberts. john roberts voted against a version of this program back in 2016 when it was parents of u.s. citizens whose deportation was being deferred. in a couple different turns, he mentioned the fact that the administration might have been right to believe that this childhood arrivals program known as daca would be unlawful the way the parental program was. but he didn't fully tip his hand. he asked questions about latitude in general and the agency heads in this, and about consequences. he asked questions about consequences. one other caution i would give here is that the chief doesn't fully show his hand. and last term, at the end of the census case, we were all ready to say he was siding with the trump administration about the citizenship query, and, indeed, he was, but he changed his vote at the last minute. so in the immortal words of some justices and sports figures, it ain't over

coming up thursday morning, syndicated columnist clarence page discusses the generational divide in america and news of the day. then republican media strategist adam goodman on house emma kratz and the impeachment push, and what it means for campaign 2020. we sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday morning. during the discussion. -- join the discussion. >> go shopping and see what is now available including our campaign 2020 t-shirts and hats. go to c-span.org and browse all of our products. >> next, i discuss in a rock that started in middle east october. policy experts including former iraqi ambassador to the u.s. rend al-rahim francke discussed the ongoing protests in iraq which began in october 2019. demonstrators are protesting against many issues including political corruption. other topics touched on included iran's intervention in iraq and what should the u.s. role be as the unrest continues. the hudson institute in washington, dc hosted the conversation. >> good morning of your buddy and thank you for coming. and thank all of you for watchi

jeffrey, if for any reason he cannot serve in that role, my understand something that it would fall to clarencet could be interesting on a whole host of levels. not the least of which is, i think he would have to speak. >> you know, justice thomas would preside over the supreme court. if chief justice roberts had to be over at the senate at the same time. because justice thomas is the most senior justice and he would have to speak, just as john paul stevens presided when chief justice rehnquist was sick. if chief justice roberts were unable to appear at the senate it's not clear whether another justice could preside. the constitution does say the chief justice must preside. it's probable or possible that the trial could not take place unless chief justice roberts actually were part of it. >> one final point, the constitution relative to remedy of an impeachment process is limited to removal. i mean that's what's at stake, right? simply, you make it sound simple, it's not. but just the removal of the president and not any other punishment that could follow. >> no, there is one other punishment,

hill accused a supreme court justice clarence thomas during hearings in 1991.atie hill made her final speech on the house floor today, offering an apology to those who trusted her with the office for the caliph when a democrat is resigning, a muted ethics probe into whether she had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer in . she has denied the claim, but admitted to a relationship with a campaign staffer. explicit photos of hill emerged, and the congressman says she is leaving because of a double standard and misogynistic culture. >> i'm leaving because i did not want to be peddled by papers and blogs and websites used for the dirtiest politics i've ever seen, to drive clicks and expand the audience of the right-wing media. >> shannon: her final act today, voting in favor of the democrats impeachment inquiry resolution. the medal of honor represents core value of courage, commitment, and sacrifice. it is america's highest military honor. tonight, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge takes us on a unique tour into a program where recipients

chief justice roberts has to preside and be absent from the court during the impeachment trial, clarenceside as chief justice in his absence. so the supreme court is taking this seriously. the senate is taking this seriously. this is a question of constitutional politics. at its highest level of gravity. >> jeff, before i let you go, i want to give this little teaser, you have a book coming out, "conversations with rbg, ruth bader ginsburg on life, liberty, love and law" and i think i want to talk to you about a week or so when it comes out. >> next tuesday. i think we will talk then. i cannot wait to share it you with and share it with all of you viewers, the excitement of being able to collect 25 years of conversation with the heroic justice ginsburg. it is a tribute to her, and my great admiration for her and long time friendship and i can't wait to talk about it with you next week. jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the national constitution center and a professor at the george washington university law school. >>> and a quick programming note, after a pivotal week in the impeac

also, i think it set the stage for wide he was so tremendously loyal to clarence thomas is nomination as well. i believe he in accurately is depicted here as treating dan quayle as some kind of baby. that could not be further from the truth. he went against the advice of everyone to let all kinds of people on the short list for vice president, went with quayle in a surprise move, and really treated has -- really treated him as an equal. i think because he was a vice president and he wanted the same treatment for his own vice president to continue the tradition he started with president reagan on having lunch every week. there was a very close relationship. way he looked at dan quell. -- dan quayle. >> this is about a speech that quayle gave after the nomination. i take a more sympathetic view perhaps in mary cate does. i do not join the dan quayle rehabilitation movie. i agree with what mary cate said , bush tried to treat quayle the way he thought a vice president should be treated and with the appropriate dignity. do not think that dan quell was one of the key insiders of the bush a

syndicatedrning, columnist clarence page discusses the generational divide in america and news of the day. then a republican media strategist on the how -- on house democrats impeachment push and what it means for campaign 2020. "washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. next, scholars discussed the history of presidential misconduct, looking at the trump presidency and past administrations. from fordham university law school, this is an hour and a half. >> welcome. thank you all for being here. before we get started, i want to tell you i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. we always talk about politics and the law and foreign policy. politics and the law and foreign policy. it is all very interesting. and it is all very interesting. but i like the history, and i think it would've been a very good thing if more historians were weighing in more frequently. this is our attempt to do that. before we get started, let me say that this is being recorded by c-span. let me say that this is being