first amendment. they're expressing their religious beliefs. now is the time to make justice a reality for all of god's children. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. welcome to speaking freely, a weekly conversation about free expression in america. i'm ken paulson. our guest today is one of america's best-known journalists and authors, carl bernstein. great to have you here. good to be here. you know, i've read quite a bit about you, and there's been a great deal written. what i've enjoyed reading particularly is the descriptions of woodward and bernstein, who they are in the history of journalism, and one of my favorites, especially considering some of your rock critic roots, is, the city paper in washington described you as the lennon and mccartney of journalism. would that make you paul or john? um, interesting. i think john. that's a good choice. are you surprised that-- i mean, it was an extraordinary story, tremendous impact, obviously, but 30 years on, it is absolutely what you are best known for and it's what people want to talk to you about. has it surprised you the staying power of that whole episode? not r

amendments. the first is to protect the the van ness area plan. to provide a higher density medical center. the second is map one of the van ness area plan. the project will be to designate these sites for the medical center and increase the global square-foot area ratio for the hospital at these sites. third is a map two of the van ness area plan. the fourth is a map four of the urban design area. lastly, met five of the urban design element. this will be designed to permit those dimensions of the hospital and m.o.d. site. initiation of these amendments is not a formal recommendation of the project. rather it allows the planning department to provide notice for public hearing. the planning department recommends you initiate the hearings before you today. with that, i will turn it back to ken rich. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. it has been a long road and we are happy to be with you today. staff, as you know, spent a large amount of time working on this project. really the last several years. the really intensively for the last year. i wanted to spend a moment telling you why t

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so my first amendment says no processing center can be closed unless a governor from the state certifies that a closure won't harm the community or disrupt commerce. my second amendment says no processing center can be closed unless an independent third party like the commission talks about the impact on jobs, unemployment rate and small business, and to make the study public. my third maintains a standard of delivery for overnight. on that eastern shore, my veterans need their medical care, my seniors need to be able to get their social security checks, and also business. you know, parts of this come through this processing center are even live birds. are they going to sit around and go back and forth to baltimore? man, does that ruffle my feathers, i can tell you that right now. and fourth, it's strictly zip code politics. i will offer an amendment to prevent the closing of the eastern post office. if my -- easton post office. if my other three amendments prevail, i think we have it. so it's not just my criteria. it's what merkley and all of us are talking about. the post office is a p

ever learning about so the heart of the first amendment it's essential core was to prove to permit people to expose government abuses but what we see in the center should cases is that the government is using its power to intimidate to prosecute to read and preventing the american people learning about the abuses of their government they are censorship document that the predicate there is censorship on said that the director of the f.b.i. can censor federal employees if they disagree with the policy being advocated by those employees and it's unconstitutional all of the cases say the right to censor is limited to classified and secret yet the f.b.i. is saying they can send through peacetime policy these are the types of rules that they sneak in that have to be challenged. now take a look at some other stories from around the world at least one hundred thirty three people have been killed in two days of violent clashes between yemeni soldiers and al qaida it comes after militants linked to al qaida raided an army barracks in the southern town of la there a government official says the group have now surrounded the area preparing to take over the

and a process to revisit the first amendment to see if we could carve out the free speech is for people, not for corporations. in any one of you, all you are left of center nice good old liberals, thinking that this is a good time to revisit the first amendment, i would ask you to please put down the beer that you're drinking at home. because he the idea that you can be opened the interpretation of the first amendment right now in this context, in this climate with this congress, and you'll try to carve out the big bad contributions of corporations that corrupt the political process and you will not do damage to the type of free speech right you probably want to support, like labor unions or the aclu, or like the planned parenthood fact, i think we are all delusional if you think will do something good for democracy by revisiting the first amendment. it's one of those instances where i go -- it's a question i would have to answer the most but it's probably the issue we do the least on. it's like i don't know what the solution is to cancer. i can't find a cure to cancer. it's not just in a court of law. the jurisprudence is not moving in my direction to f

center for democracy and technology . a law enforcement officials are getting a little first steve these days that's because the supreme court ruled five to four this week that he suspects fourth amendment privacy rights are outweighed by jailhouse security concerns so now police officers have the right to strip search anyone they arrest it doesn't matter if you have an i paid parking ticket or i are a suspected serial killer both are fair game first strip searches the cases brought suit court over a year ago after manning's albert florence was searched several times when he was arrested for a fine he already paid it well let albert the story from here and he instructed me to lift both turned around. and if you like my genitals my tongue cough even thinking about it even speaking about it still brings me you know chills. and corgi describe the searches as you millie a day and said it made him feel like less of a man which made him take the case to the supreme court but let's take a step back and see what a strip search actually does this is a video from the federal law enforcement training center take a look you're about to see the great we. were visual search. the initial verbal comman

center, also amicus in this case with the aclu and a broad range of civil-rights organizations. we filed against arizona sb1070. we are also arguing that it violates the first and fourth amendmentlaims of equal protection and due process claims. these claims were not before the supreme court today, however, it was very clear the justices were concerned about the impact this would have on u.s. citizens, whether, in fact, the databases would not be able to clear a u.s. citizen and they would be detained. the justices were very concerned about the impact this would have on a citizen from new mexico driving through arizona and the impact on that individual. they understood the complexities of what it means for a person who is brown to go outside in arizona without an id and whether that person would also be stopped and detained. we are very confident that the decision that ultimately will come out from the supreme court will, hopefully, be a narrowly- focused decision and will allow us to go back to court and continue litigating our case and, eventually, sb1070 will be struck down as unconstitutional because it is an un-american statute. it is a statute that is resulting today in r

first, i want to congratulate my colleague from maine for an excellent amendment. as she indicated the postal service made a major miscalculation -- a mathematical error in the study that it did on the hamden processing center in our state. society senator snowe's amendment would say that if a proposed consolidation of a mail-processing center is appealed to the postal regulatory commission, the commission can be asked to review the underlying study's methodology and the estimated savings to make sure that it's correct because right now there's really no way to challenge a mistake that is made by the postal service in conducting these very important studies that are going to decide whether or not processing centers stay open. so i commend my colleague from maine for a very well-thought-out amendment a understand i urge its adoption by voice vote. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not the question is on the amendment as modified. all those in favor say aye. opposed? the ayes appear to have it. the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: madam president i call up my amendment number 2043 and ask co