what it proves is, is that en the person had the expience of, of interacting witgod. this is-- the changeas going on in the brain. >> can i just prai the lord right now. i eel like if i don't praise the lord, i'moing to bust. >> tnk you jesus. thank you jesus. reporter: doctor newberg h found ther are some religious practices ere the person is intensely focused and oers where they just allow themsees to be taken over. for exampl speaking in tongues. >> reporter: dr. newbergas scanned the brains of peoplof all belief systems,f people with no faith, andhose of deep conviction, le donna morgan who is a pentecostal. >> when are you in theealm of praise you just give oveto the holy spit then you let him take control and en he's taking control, righ you can speak in tongu if you've been ven that gift. thank you. >> speaking inongues you're going to see thathe frontal lobes decree in activity. that meanshe frontal lobe which is the part of t brain that normally mak them feel like they are control of what theare doing is shutting down. >> reporter: it ishutting down because..

clear, in one of thequotes that you refenced, i was trying to inspire themo belve that their life expiences would enri the legal system, becse different life experiences and backgrods always do. i don't think tt there is a quarrel with that in our socie. i was also, in trying to inspire th, to believe that they could believe anything theyanted to ecome, just as i had. the contextf the word that i spoke have created a misunderstanding, and i wan -- a misunderanding -- and to give everyo assurances, i want to state up frt, unequivocally and without doubt, i do not bieve that any ethnic, rial, or gder group has an aantage in soundjudging. i do blievehat every peon has an equal opportunity to be a good and wis judge regardless of the background or life expiences. >> reporr: but the explanation did not tisfy alabama'seff sessions, the committ's ranking repuican. when he presed the point, sotomayor said s hadtried a rhetoric flourish that fell flat >> it was bad,ecause it left an impression that i believe that life experienes commanded a result in acase, but that's clearly not what i do a judge,

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beginnings to extraordinary academic lal achievent is an inspiration i note that you ll bring more expience than any justice in over 100 years. you also have incredly valued pras tis experice. you ha beencareful, thoughtful an open minded. in fact, wh strikes me most about your record is it seems to reveal no biases. you appr to take each case as it comes, giving full consideration tohe arguments of bh sides before reaching cion. when jusce suitor announc his retirement in may, i suggested the court would nefit from a broer range of my concern at tim wasn't the ck of women or racial or ethnic minities, although that deficit is glaring. i was pointing to the fact that most of the curre justices shareroughly the se life experiences. i am hardened by what you bri to the courtased on your upbringing, ur story of achievement, your experiences and ye the prospect of you beg e first latina to sit on the high court. diversity serves many goals outside th courtroom. it better equips us to understand more of the backgrounds that comprise our society. moreer, a gwing bout of social rearch suggest that

a nenew wealth management firm with over 130 years expience. >>> turn now to our corresndent kent jones. >> hi, rachel. >> no fewer than t world leaders have engaged in hand-to-hand combat with insects. that's right. >> i havto go on record saying i think this ss a dangerous precedt. let's take a look. >> okay. >> you may have se the video of iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad doing battle wita rely big fly today and losing. of coue, you can't help comparing that to president obama's famous fly-killi episode. so, ha, ha, we win, right? wrong! both ahmadinejad and oba made the mistakof ting that humans couldontrol the insect world. fat chance, bipeds. it's their planet went just li in it. for instance, bees interrupted major league basebl game last week for 5minutes. in 2007, the yanesleveland playoff game was decided by flies. do you really think insects care abt our silly little pastime? ey dt. mosquitoes cause malaria. when he wanted sca a crowd, bill gates released jafull ofhe little blood suckers. fire ants can n do ts,s,ow. dbugs prove that insectsts don carebobo our dreams, eit

it's fair to say that as aise la, i maye able to add morevalue than people who have not ha that expience, not in every case,ot every time, but the reason that we ve nine supreme court just, the reason that we add judges is the court getshigher up in the system is th we vae more and more the exrience that people have had. it's moremptant and as oliver wendel hoes said, the life of the law has no been logic, and it has been experience. and brings unique expeence and that wil add valu i think that's just matter of human fact. >> sheon whitehouse from the judiciary committee, thank you so much. >> you're very lce. >> joinin us nowpete willia williams, nbc's justice correspondent. te, what did you hear? >> i think, first of all, wat has to be said is thathe has masteredhe essti talent for nominees, she has to sit there looking impassive. e had exactly the same expression. was atriumph of facial utrality. i felt tt was important. i ink one of the them here, andrea, is 78. that's the number of votesohn roberts got. and one of thengs decrs were saying today, ifohn roberts got after saying that h

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about race and class mutually exclusi when in fact classis theay, i mean race is e way that class is expienced in the united stes. how elseare we to underand. so in parthat we have to do is we have to figur out a way to talk about the complex intrelation between class, poverty and race. >> t's talk about affirmative action if you are going it to talkbout it that wayecause there are aot of people who say there areoor white people whocould benefit fromome sort of extra prefence being given orome advantage bng given. that they areeingeprived because of a race-based poly. >> look at a college campus. you ve race based affirmative acon, gender-sed affirmative action d classased ffirmative action. because dow have doorwas that are open for people who are first ti college. for people who cme from poor areas of the coury, poor rul areas that are primarily whte think it is a very fair question in thissociety riht now to ask whaabout whites who are trappedin a multigenerational poverty. >> sods >> reporte sounds like you're arguing against race consous- >> no, what im sayinis you've got thave both we ha

. >> the judgmentnd expience. but any event i'm not going to participate in public debate. >> one does not have to be omniscient to speak out. >> rose: exactly. >> let me give one example from the movie and it's certainly one of rober mcnamars fundamental lesss. 's a lesson abo multilatalism. he says inhe course of the movie that we didn' listen to any of our alli. if we had lisned tour allies in the crse of vietnam, we wodn't have been there it's a direct quote. we couldn't have been tre. now, this is actually a question for you. do you see a parallels in the currensituation? >> i'm not goingo answer that question. >> rose: well, there you go. >>n saturday, the critical moment, saturday, octer 27, 1963, that washe critica mome. the predent had... his council there, the chiefs the secretaries of state and defense and naonal security advisor and director of c.i.a., we argu all day long about what to do. we weren't se. hadn't been able to get the damn missile out, had to g them out. but we had photographs of missile

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are you lening to teach at the expense of these kids who actually need expienced teachers?>> the kids arehe only reason we here. um, wee not here for the paycheck, were not here forfor anything else li that. we're here for the ki, and were puttg our all into it. >> we stay up 'til likeone, two o'clock,tay at school 'til seven o'clock wking on lesson pls. and that energywhich might not behere if you've been in the systemor ten or 15 years. we use as a tool to make positive impacts. >>eporter: so the energy outweighs your inexperiee? >> yes. yes. it comnsates for it. >>eporter: did you ever find yourself triaging? >> i don't have enough eney to help everyo here so i'm really going to work on these tw >> definitely, aolutely. >> if yowere to take the tire classroom by storm? a try to tackle all the issues, i mean. i don't think any one of is capable of at. >> its not always in your control i had a student aing up a w weeks ago that had never really-- he would sep during class a the time. and i find out that he' homeless, there's way that me beg nicer or stricter or more motiva

if you expience any of these behaviors or reactions... contact your doctor immediately.eady for your day-- ask your healthcare provider for 2-layer ambien cr. ♪ >> jimmy: hey! welcome back to the show, everybody. welcome back. now, as you probably noticed, every tv show on the air these days seems to be doing makeovers. that's why instead of doing our own makeover segment, we've decided to go the other way and do a makeunder. here's a new segment we're calling "extreme audience makeunder." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ extreme audience makeunder ♪ >> jimmy: all right, everybody.a here's how "extreme audience makeunder" works. before the show we found two nice looking audience members waiting in our line and we asked them if they'd be willing to go head-to-head in a makeunder battl we then took themo te e xtreme audience makeunder" thug zone where -- "extreme audience makeunder" fug zone where -- [ light laughter ] where for the past few hours, they've been receiving a comprehensive image downgrade. in just a moment, we'll let you vote on who will become our first makeunder w

get used to the fact that it's mirror age but a great a, a chimps, for example, and a human, after expience with a mirror, seein that the mirror image does evething is a perfectl replicatesvery one of your little movements gives it the clue tt this is not another strange creature butt must be me. only humans c say it is me a the reection in th mirror apes habuate and get e hang of it but the extraordinary thing is when an ape anesthetized and you put a red patcon the forehd and the ape looks in the mirror he immediately does this. wipes off the patch. does haverudimentary sense of his body and realize he has to do this to remove that pot. doesn't reach into the mirr. it's not an all-or-none thing, it's notan awarenessemerged out ofhe blue. >> charlie: tell me abouthe brain's plasticity. it used to be tse connectis in thebrain, 100 billion nerve cells in the average human ain, each nerve cell makes something like 1,000-10,000ontacts with other nerve cells. the contacts n be on, can be off,omeone calculated that the nuer of brain states -- the number opossible permutations ceeds the number of

hardball" show or wther we're senators or whher we're trying to be on the supreme court bring our life expience to it. the peoplee've met, the experiences we've had. 's bound to have some impact sandra day o'connor grew uin a rah in arizona. it made a difference in the way she looked at the wod, the way she anyzed han conduct. that's not unual. >> well, i guess thagets down to the queion of affirmative action and whether she on th court will put herhumb on the scale favor of minorities against peopleho might lose in a case where the courts le in favor of minorities. let me get to e key question here, the ricccase. the preme court overruled her when she red at the appellate level it was okay for the city of n haven to throw out a test because thresults showed no african-americans passed the st for promotion for firefighter. for higherffice in the firefighteoperation up there in new haven. what didou make of her potion on that? did u suppt her ruling in that case? >> i think her ruling was the only ring that she could have handed down. it reflected 38 years ofrt decions. it reflected the trial co