[laughter] justice clarence thomas. [applause] >> first of all let me think armstrong for hosting this wonderful event and the vice president and mrs. cheney. sorry to put you through all that trouble, and my colleagues who've been a source of comfort over the past 16 years it is hard i think for people to realize just how wonderful the court family is. even with exasperation and sometimes we might get frustrated with each other, it is a family and when we see court family, it's been a wonderful oasis of constructive disagreements an in the place of common endeavor and wonderful place of respect and friendship. they've been extremely supportive over the years and we appreciate that and all my friends here. in particular i would like to thank my wife, virginia. [applause] i wanted to make a couple minutes of remarks i won't go on too much about the book i'm getting a little tired of it now. [laughter] i want to again thank my wife as she helped me throughout all the edits and put up with me being grumpy. this wound up ta

justices sonia sotomayor and clarence thomas have written biographers now. here's justice sonia sotomayor from 2013, followed by justice thomas from 2007. >> greatings. welcome. [applause] >> greatings, walk, progressive forum. i'm randall morton, founder and president of the progressive forum, america's only civic speaker organization exposely dedicated progressive values and the largest speaker organization in texas. [applause] >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> we are excited tonight to present supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, who is

anita hill named clarence thomas. he became the supreme court justice and still is. so that, to me, doesn't say, all right, women. just be quiet. rather, that we have to -- what are the conditions that we have created and set up in our institutional structures that lead to this? and until we change that, naming names alone is not enough. we've already seen that. naming names alone is not enough. so i think that all of us in joining in on this, what we are committed to is changing those structural circumstances and conditions so that when the woman names the name and a proper investigation happens -- and you have to protect the accuser and the accused. due process must happen. but that once that naming is named and there is the real documentation, that action is taken, and there's consequences. >> marisa lagos -- >> and the woman is protected. >> that's right. >> there's no negative consequence to her for reporting and naming the name. >> i was a little girl during the anita hill/clarence thomas scandal. that's one of my earliest political memories. she was an idol of

obviously clarence thomas is a supreme court justice, and trump when the access hollywood tape came outmany thought that would be the end but he was elected president. and harvey weinstein in short order has been terminated, and roger ailes who will after accusations he was ousted from fox news. where do you think we are today with scenarios like this? >> well, as you stated before, awareness has been raised. clearly we have not held everybody accountable. we don't have any real way to think about this when we have these public figures, how do we hold each of them accountable. the public in donald trump's case voted, and so it was an election. in politics, i think it's very different than in business. the laws really do deal with what goes on in the workplace. the anti-discrimination laws that people bring harassment claims under deal only with the workplace and they do not deal with politics. that's one distinction i think we need to take into account when we talk about how people escape. but i would also say that the way you define escape is important, too, because donald trump is sti

the previous joseph story lectures have been delivered by judge clarence thomas, justice clarence thomas, justice anthony kennedy, judge robert bourque, professor john harris at virginia law school, judge ray randolph, judge alice, judge janis rodgers brown and judge carlos beya. as our guest this evening that is joining this distinguished group of judges and professors is of course the honestly brett kavanagh. as you all know he's a judge of the united states court of appeal for the district of columbia circuit. he was appointed by george w. bush and took office on the 30th of may, 2006. before his appointment to the court, judge kavanagh served for more than five years in the white house in various capacities. he began as an associate council and then senior associate counsel to the president and was assistant to the president and staff secretary up until the time later on of his appointment. during his career the judge has been a partner in private practice with the firm here in washington, d.c. he was been an attorney in the office of the solicitor general of the united states and he

when anita hill spoke out against clarence thomas. charges he denied. >> i did not make these statements or do these things. >> reporter: still, sexual harassment has remained a constant problem. kate, i mean, when you think about this, it affects all sorts of industries, all sorts of businesses, and companies out there big and small, can do something about it. they can put in place sexual harassment training policies. their employees should note, this is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. and managers should know, here's what people need to do to come forward. if you're a victim, you should know in your company who you can go to, and you should know that your privacy is protected. and at the top of the company, even if it's a small business, the leaders have to get involved. and you have to train your employees. you and have i always worked at big companies, we know what sexual harassment training is. but imagine if you worked in hospitality or restaurant, a restaurant should know, they need to train their employees for exactly wh

when anita hill spoke out against supreme court justice nominee clarence thomas.harges he denied. >> i did not make these statements or do these things. >> reporter: still, sexual harassment has remained a constant problem. >> our thanks to stephanie ruhle for that report. the equal opportunity commission says that there are steps companies can take to manage sexual harassment in the workplace and they include implementing clear sexual harassment policies, having regular workplace sexual harassment training, and providing civility and bystander training. >> still ahead we'll show you how the social media bots try to influence the election and fright films rule the box office. we'll have that for you next. plus, when you get a flu shot at walgreens, you help provide a lifesaving vaccine to a child in need through the un foundation. it's that easy to get your flu shot and make a difference. so swing by your local walgreens today. walgreens. at the corner of happy & healthy. ltry align probiotic.n your digestive system? for a non-stop, sweet treat goodness, hold on t

don't let ben carson or clarence thomas e. did with the name of scalia. but your boy clarence? not hard enough. n then do said in a lot more in common with the white people.s than because they cannot stand a negro. the same way some women cannot stand the other women but here is the simple rule.th r so go somewhere and saddam. -- sit down. and not saying o.j. is a murderer. [laughter] i'm not saying he was innocent but that is a you tell us there is no evidence. he was like that is the view of the? that they could have had a film on the o.j.. line though that is harsh so wade admitted that isn't the first person and he went into his 90s? then those that killed even though timothy tyson held the? so he should not have died. so as my brothers and sisters to think criticallydi about race have more than one black friend per go talk to black people in those white people that are in line and please? that doesn't mean the saxophone. associate the drummer it does not mean you hate the band. so when you say black lives matter we don't say white light is a matter we know they do. that is

the previous lectures were delivered by clarence thomas, justice kennedy kennedy, professor harrison at the virginia law school judge brown. as our guest this evening are joining a distinguished group of judges and professors we have the honorable brett cavanaugh from united states court of appeals and a pointed end took office 2006. before his appointment judge cavanaugh serve for more than five years in the white house in began as the associate counsel and was assistant to the president up until the time of his appointment. throughout his career he has been a partner in private practice and an attorney in the office of the solicitor general with the number of distinguished judges that he clerked for and a graduate of yale college and also yale law school please join me to welcome our distinguished lecturer of 2017 brought cavanaugh. [applause] >>. >> thanks general for that kind introduction i am honored to be here to deliver the lecture as general meade said having a profound influence as the supreme court justice and as a scholar i am honored to deliver a lecture in his name and

the one side and the african american library company of cnn washington has no mentioning of clarence thomas anywhere. and on the other side, there's going to be a black lives matter exhibit and they are going to take this stuff if they can get the fidel castro jersey or something. so i am trying to see an irrational bias that with the democrats that are demonizing them, not just resisting. they are subversive by calling the average white guy successful or not. all the things they spew. so my question is when you look at howard dean and what they are saying, what good does that do the country? >> not much and i congratulate you for your success. i would agree on the basic premise unless we accept that we are an inclusive country by the degree is a diversity of opinion and diversity of background in all communities, african-american, asian, hispanic and white, unless we do that through all our institutions, we all lose. >> >> the right to criticize the democrats, there is much i would dare say republicans could be criticized for as well. we are americans first and of less people together we a

he served as a law clerk for justice ginsburg's -- ginsburg and clarence -- clarence thomas on the supreme court. >> thank you tiffany for inviting me to be on this panel at thank you for the heritage foundation for the fine work you do day in and day out. as most of you know and probably better than i free speech as we know it today didn't really exist before the 1960s. i'm a child of the 50s so i have observed the first amendment law and by the 1970s i was passionately committed to the principles of the first amendment both as one of the most basic human rights and the first amendment as the constitution is floyd abrams describes it master forgets a foundation of freedom or intellectual freedom political freedom and economic freedom. where the first amendment and might just as intersected was first in 1995 when released the beer road dog with the original label art by the international famous artist ralph stennett. we knew ralph threw hunter s. thompson and ralph was painting this label live on the bbc. there's a fun back story behind it but and partly an effort to put the bbc little bit

we can go to anita hill and the hearings we watched unfold on television when she accused clarence thomas harassment. after that i watched as a civil rights attorney laws being enacted like sexual harassment training. here we are 25 years after anita hill talking about things like, in california potentially, a i new law that may prevent nondisclosure agreements being used in sexual harassment cases. so much has happened but in some ways so little has changed. we are learning women, for the last two plus decades have been suffering in some cases in silence. this is a really significant moment, i think. >> so that brings us to george h.b. bush, 93 years old, wheelchair bound. two women have come forward saying he was inappropriate with them. where are we on the spectrum? does he get a pass because he is 93 and wheelchair bound, or is this part of the large net we are now casting with a lot of people? >> as we said in our previous segment, this has really been a watershed moment for men who have, in a position of authority, exploited the money and the power to prey on young women who were no

and served an as law clerk for the court and supreme court, clarence thomas. >> thank you for inviting me to be on this panel. thank you for the heritage foundation on the fine work you do on a day in day out basis. as most of you know probably better than i, free speech as we know it today didn't really exist before the 1960s. i'm a child of the '50s so i observed the development of first amendment law. by the 1970s i was passionately committed to the principles of the first amendment both as one of the most basic human rights and first amendment as the rock star of the constitution as floyd abrams describes it, the master foundational freedom for intellectual freedom, political freedom and economic freedom. when the first amendment and my business intertexted was 1955 when we released a beer, road dog by the internationally famous artist, ralph stedman. we knew ralph through our connection with hunter s. thompson. ralph was painting this label live on the bbc. there's a fun story behind it. just to poke the bbc and essay he wrote on this beer he scribbled on there in his inevitable f

i remember covering the clarence thomas hearings in 1991 and what the reactions of the senate judiciary committee were and ted kennedy and joe biden and others, and members of the committee, some still in the senate, were very eager to shut it down when polling on this critical weekend showed that american people, for whatever reasons, believed what he said rather than what she said. >> and that was the first we really started hearing about sexual harassment as, like, a thing. >> exactly. >> obviously i'm new over here in the nbc family and i come from fox news and fox news' problems on this front have been well documented and well publicized, but it isn't just fox, either. i hope our own industry looks at itself and does a cleaning of house and gets honest about anybody in their companies who they've had to pay out repeated settlements for. because at this point if that gets unearthed, if there is such an executive at these other companies, it's on you. you're on notice to go clean up your house, figure out who you've got there. if there is a trail of settlements, andrea, and the cost

the previous lectures have been delivered by judge clarence thomas. justice anthony kennedy. udge robert bourque, judge ray randolph. judge alice, judge janice rogers rown and judge carlos bea. as our guests this evening joining this distinguished group of judges and professors, is of course the honorable brett cavanagh. as you all know, he is a judge of the united states court of acourt of appeals for the districtor colombia circuit appointed by george w. bush and took office on may 30, 2006. before his appointment to the court, he served for more than five years in a white house in various capacities. he began as an associate council and was assistant to the president and staff secretary up until the time later on of his appointment. during his career, the judge has been a partner in private practice with the firm of kirkland and ellis in washington, d.c.. he has been an attorney in the office of the solicitor general of the united states and clerked for a number of distinguished judges, justice kennedy of the judge to have ninth circuit and the judge walter stapleton of th

today, he throws a party for supreme court justice clarence thomas and travels in in an elite rarefiednt of attention sa rupert murdoch or some other to natitional media moguls have attracted. amy: the merging of sinclair and tribune? these are the smaller local stations that. the united states, crisscross the united states. givive 42l would television stations from sinclair or from tribune intoo sinclair. it would add more of those dots on the map, as you mentioned for step sinclair has no presence right now in colorado. this would give it a major presence in colorado. it would also briring stations n ththese three largest media markets in the country into the ,inclair company -- new york , one of the and wgn most famous broadcast companies in america, in chicago. so this would really seal sinclair's position as the sort of dominant broadcast company. of course, given that many more tens of millions of people who would be potentially saying force epstein, sebastian gorka potentially bill o'reilly. when we were talking about sebastian gorka, just understand if he's talking about black

clarence thomas deny me equal pay at the eeoc because he was disgusted by the scars on my faith. he told that to a male colleague after he kicked me out of his office. i had a clear cut open and shut unequal pay case but he would not take it because he cannot stand my looks. warn all the people of the washington, d.c. area about horrific illegal discrimination and harassment that goes on at times"shington newspaper. body shamedically by several people there, men and women because i am disfigured. even though i was doing a great job and i saved the paper many times from embarrassing mistakes int would've gone to press the production department and in the legal advertising department. in the legal advertising department, they kept protecting this bill cosby type person who thought he was entitled to have sex with all the attractive women who worked there and he was nasty to women like me who did not meet his standards. even there he told me i was not attractive, he demanded sex in front of other people and i refused and he demanded money. he said i owed him money for putting up wit

think, you know, before we get too celebratory about how the world has changed, remember 1991, clarence thomas/anita hill hearings, people said the world has changed, now people understand sexual harassment. well, in fact, you know, that's 26 years ago. and all these incidents we're talking about took place after those hearings. i don't know how much the public learned about that -- it learned in 1991 and i don't know how much they'll learn from this. i hope they will. >> i think this is different. at least i hope. i've got to go. i've got to get to the next hour. >> i hope the pendulum doesn't swing too far the other way. i don't want to sew whe what happened with campus sexual assault stuff and kangaroo courts on college campuses and people not being able to defended themselves. >> thank you. >> i want to disassociate myself from those remarks. anyway, we'll -- >> thanks, everyone. >> have discussion on that because that's real. that's real. >> thank you, everyone. that's it. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. a little past 11:00 here on the east coast. we're live with breaking news. thou

looked on the one side and the african-american museum in washington and there's no mention of clarence thomasanywhere and on the other side has a lack lies matter exhibit. maybe they can get is fidel castro's shares your something so i'm trying to see and rationalized that with the democrats that are demonizing. they are subversive like calling the average white guy successful or not at all the things they. my question is when you look at howard dean and what they are saying what good does that do for the country? >> not much sir and first of all i think you for your success. i would agree with the basic premise that unless we accept that we are an inclusive country that there's a diversity of opinion, it diversity about round, african-american, asian and hispanic and white unless we do that through all our institutions we all lose. i would say would you describe to me saddens me. i share some of the same sentiments but i would put it in as blunt terms as you have but i would say this. i grew up in the civil rights era. my mother taught me that we were to be as martin luther king said values

justices sonia sotomayor and clarence thomas have written biographers now. here's justice sonia sotomayor from 2013, followed by justice thomas from 2007. >> greatings. welcome. [applause] >> greatings, walk, progressive forum. i'm randall morton, founder and president of the progressive forum, america's only civic speaker organization exposely dedicated progressive values and the largest speaker organization in texas. [applause] >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> we are excited tonight to present supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, who is launching her first book a memoir called my beloved world. please turn off your cell phones. videotaping is not allowed and if our ushers catch you they can treat you like a supreme court justice at a confirmation hearing. the beautiful flowers on stage are flowers that are grown lovely puerto rico. [applause] >> puerto rico is the roots and justice sotomayor's culture and family, who are regular florists, they found orchids, anthuriums, ginger and animal foliage. thank you c-span-tv. we here at n houston, texas, we

word the same thing was said about 25 years ago when anita hill made her accusations against clarence thomasn the supreme court nomination hearings and i wonder, in the 25 years since, do you think looking at the headlines we're seeing now that much progress has been made? >> i think some progress has been made. i think maybe the younger generation is more aware of these kinds of behaviors, but it is pervasive and obviously we have not eradicated this kind of unwanted sexual attention and innuendo. practically every woman that i know has experienced this to some degree and as i said, you know, it's not cute. it's not fun. and when you have the president who admits to being a sexual predator, it goes to show how we objectify women in our culture and we must start somewhere and that's why i think it's important for us to take this moment to step forward and stand in solidarity and enable more women to just come out and talk about it, and you know, i hope that this results in the guys, because it's usually the guys who are hassling us, to think twice before they say stupid things to us. >> i wo

>> i think have and are changing dramatically. 1991 when the clarence thomas and anita hill case appearede male judiciary shamed her, and adversarial. just think if that testimony were given today by somebody oof anita hill's credentials and believability, you would have to take it seriously. i think women in position of power, this is about abuse in these actions we hear, it's cruelty, but most of all it's about power. it's somehow i can exercise power and you're not another human being until every man acknowledges that every woman is either his sister, his mother, his daughter, his niece, his favorite child, then i'm afraid this is considered a perk by a number of powerful men. >> woodruff: an, david, that's my question. as long as men hold the vast majority of the powerful jobs in this country, powerful roles, is anything going to change? women can still speak up as a group but they still will be facing this, as i understand what you're saying. >saying. yeah, the power dynamics is what it is. some men have power addiction, masochism, an addiction to seduction where they're always crude

when anita hill accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment, she pointed to remarks that at the timeed as just words. >> on several occasions, thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess. on other occasions, he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal and he also spoke on some occasions of the pleasures he had given to women. >> there was much debate at the time but the senate confirmed thomas. last year over a dozen women accused donald trump of sexual harassment and unconsented contact. accusations that seemed to match trump's own boasts leaked on the "access hollywood" tape. he also used a just words defense by saying it was locker room talk. stories of the famous and powerful can set a tone, but we know sexual assault against women is a violent crime that, one, occurs often across the country, two, is underreported, and three, is underenforced. now the data, itself, can be vague because of that underreporting but at least one in six american women have gone through rape or attempted rape, that's according to the rape and abuse and incest national

i don't agree with you on clarence thomas. different things. there is a false equivalency there, but the republican party has been pathetic in what they have -- the evangelical community has been pathetic in turning their blind eye to donald trump. my question has to do not with donald trump or the evangelicals or republicans. i'll attack them. what about you and hollywood? has hollywood been pathetic about turning a blind eye to this behavior? >> that's what i was getting to. this has nothing to do with donald trump. what this has to do with is women having the inability to break through. what it's going to take is the men to come forward and say, when they see something like this, to do something. whether it's in hollywood with harvey weinstein or whether it's fox news. it takes a long time for these things to come through. look what bill cosby did. it took years before women were able to come forward and they're only coming out now because the floodgates have opened. let's use this opportunity to have a real conversation an

chief justice john roberts , along with samuel alito, clarence thomas, and anthony kennedy. here is a look outside the church after the service. >> the supreme court -- a supreme court begins its new term tomorrow with its new justice, neil gorsuch. cases on the docket this term deal with immigration, gay freedom, andious whether gerrymandering some voting districts violates the constitution. watch decisions on the c-span networks. >> washington journal. live every day with policy issues that impact you. the supreme court term begins monday. the heritage foundation dis cusses north korea. of the president committee for a responsible federal election talk about the cost of the republican tax plan. watch washington journal at seven eastern monday morning. join the discussion. tuesday, we are live in charleston, west virginia. for the next stop on the c-span bus capitals tour. mitch carmichael will be one of our guests on the bus, starting at 8:1 5 a.m. -- 8:15 am. a with scottd greenberger. takeslcolm turnbull questions from the australian parliament. atn, jeremy corbyn speaks

at the cathedral of saint matthew, among those attending chief justice john roberts, justices clarence thomas and samuel alito, stephen breyer, and anthony kennedy. here's a look outside the church after the service. >> the supreme court begins its midterm tomorrow, with neil gorsuch joining the bench. will begin hearing for argument on a number of high-profile cases. deal with term immigration, evidence collection, search and seizure, religious freedom, and whether some gerrymandered voting districts violated the constitution. andh more selected re-airs announced decisions here on the c-span networks. >> tuesday, we are live in charleston, west virginia for the next stop on c-span bus. governor jim justice and lieutenant governor mitch carmichael will be our guests during washington journal starting at 8:15 a.m. eastern. join us tuesday for the entire washington journal, starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> paul song this is jinx the a boston massachusetts accent. massachusetts accent. plan, we do not have a plan. i have a book. that's it. >> for the past 30 years, the video library i

we've seen it -- we saw it at fox, we saw it the other day with mark halpeperhalpern, even clarence thomasever talked to a woman who has some version of harassment you see why women wait so long either they're not going to be believed, they're going to say they asked for it, or they're going to be punished if the president of the united states can come out and say overtly he sexually harassed people and still gets elected, what avenue do women have? it's going to take the men to step up, and women like reese witherspoon who have been become power figures in their own right, do they drive the production decisions and what impact could that have >> i hope it has i've been saying this for a long time this has nothing -- women -- more women need to be in positions of power, whether in business, in hollywood, or in government women value life more than men do i'm just saying that. >> mike, do you want to respond to that? >> no, no, they understand what it is to -- >> i'm willing to defer. >> i have a daughter too they understand the connection to life. >> this is very important. do you own netf

i asked women, you know, 20 years now after the clarence thomas situation and bill clinton in the whitese s this still pervasive. you know, the stories that you hear, they're all very similar. women called in and said, yeah, this is still happening where they feel pressured to start a relationship with someone? power, has influence over them. they feel like if they don't, they can't get advancement in their careers and sometimes, you know, that relationship is -- rises to the level of sexual assault and it just goes unreported because these women feel like they are in real danger not just career wise but in terms, you know, actual well-being. charles: larry, thank you very much, good seeing you. live look at the white house. president trump delivering a speech at the value's voter summit. in fact, the very first sitting president to speak at the event. we will bring it to you live when it happens. big guest later on this hour, congressman kevin brady, tax writing committee, does he still think tax reform will get done by the end of this year, we will ask him at 9:45. president trump tak