[laughter] justice ginsberg: he was a great lawyer.et the court step-by-step to get to brown v. board. he argued cases when he told the court, equal not before the court today, these are vastly unequal. they knew they had to have some legal training for african-americans. they set up this vastly inferior law school. when he had his building blocks in place and made the big pitch, the aclu women's rights project that i cofounded, that is what we tried to do, to get there. not in one giant step, so that by the time the big step came it would be inevitable. all the building blocks. justice sotomayor: do you think you have reached that stage? justice ginsburg: no. but considering where we were, considering that in 1961, the liberal warren court told wendell and hoyt, the woman we would today call battered, who had been humiliated to the breaking point by her philandering abusive husband, she one day could not bear it anymore. she spied her son's baseball bat, she beat her husband over the head. that was the end of the humiliation and the b

ginsberg: my question is what resources.m not sure how parties were capable of weighing in on the presidential level, and when you get down to the senate and house levels, they are -- there were attempts by leadership for the super pacs or groups like the chamber of commerce to go up against tea party people who won in 2010. it depends on what level you are talking on, and on the national committee level, not much resources, legibility to impact it. more on the senate and house with incumbents. >> let me just add a quick point. i find it remarkable because people have been involved in politics and they keep asking me, what is wrong with republicans or the democrats? why are they coming up with candidates like this? there is this impression in the public that somehow the parties can control everything. that is about as far from the truth as the reality. the impression is almost exactly the opposite of what the reality is. mr. pildes: this goes back to my opening comment about the change in the way to primaries were. the about

ginsberg: my question is what resources. werenot sure how parties capable of weighing in on the presidential level, and when you get down to the senate and house levels, they are -- there were attempts by leadership for the super pacs or groups like the chamber of commerce to go up against tea party people who won in 2010. it depends on what level you are talking on, and on the national committee level, not much resources, legibility to impact it. more on the senate and house with incumbents. let me just add a quick point. i find it remarkable because people have been involved in politics and they keep asking me, what is wrong with republicans or the democrats? why are they coming up with candidates like this? there is this impression in the public that somehow the parties can control everything. that is about as far from the truth as the reality. almost exactlyis the opposite of what the reality is. back to my this goes opening comment about the change in the way to primaries were. the about how bizarre this is. the democra

. >> ben ginsberg, let's continue that discussion. what do you see being very constructive in terms of the change in law or practice by the parties that would make the funding of campaigns by the parties more effective? for example, each of the national parties has an independent expenditure committee. if you count all the various ones that are in existence, it's about six in total. does having these parties spend significant numbers in isolation, without coordinating with the central party unit, a sensible way to do things? would it strengthen the roles of the parties as funders if they were able to coordinate more directly at least internally? your views on what could happen in terms of making the parties more significant in terms of funding campaigns. >> to answer that, i think you need to take a stark look at the system as it exists today, which is in limiting candidates and political parties in what they're allowed to raise, but with none of those limits, stretching back from buckley versus vallejo on individuals, and a series of

that's why they're exercising on the ice center's track. so much better to be in here today aubrey ginsberg says it's a matter not just of comfort... but safety. in conditions like today there's ice on the ground there's no way i'm walking out there. i'm over 65 and if i fall it's game over for me executive director randy dean says the crowds here always pick up on outdoor activities to do but once the cold weather hits - little bit of snow - they come in in droves walkers chuckle about the ice center being a ?warm, workout alternative. towards the end you can take some layers off. but yeah it is a little ironicworkers here expect the track to be busy all week with even colder temps expected tomorrow and thursday pz tmj4 the pettit is open from dollars to use the track. the milwaukee health department has some advice for staying sare in below zero weather.and while some of them may seem obvious... they could keep you from getting frostbite or worse.minimize the time youspend outside. when you do go out, let soone know where you are going and when you expect to return.be sure to cover any ex

benjamin ginsberg, is that an accurate description of what happened? will expand the question by asking did the democratic party also come close to a hostile takeover by bernie sanders and his supporters, and what are the implications of these very unusual events for the future of political parties? that is fine if you would like to start their. >> very much and election that people didn't anticipate happening but i do think donald trump succeeded in triangulating all the party alignment. very tough to know what the base of the party is, what the core constituencies are. i think that i take a little bit of exception to the assumption in the question. if you look at the way donald trump named his first 15 cabinet people, which is actually a fairly traditional lot, two generals and national security positions, four billionaires generally perceived as the party of the billionaires although we can't argue with that and seven or eight people who are people who are loyal to donald trump but also have movement conservative credentials so that looks like a pre

again, our guest is marc ginsberg.omes to fighting isis overall, what do you think has been the record of the current administration on this effort? the administration arrived far too late to the story, so to speak. they originally claimed that isis was a jv squad. if they had not engaged in the most egregious attacks in iraq, i doubt we would have seen any ramp-up from the obama administration. for all the months and years i have spent in the middle east, what i have come to understand is that whether it is al qaeda or isis, the threat of sunni radical islam is a threat to the united states. administration began ramping up militarily, the soft power effort to fight isis online has been a disaster. the state department has failed. they failed to recently set up what is called a "global engagement center" under richard engel. even with that leadership, they have not been able to effectively work these lone wolf attacks in the united states or direct messaging abroad to stop the enlistment of young arabs to join isis. fr

here today when tim suggested it i jumped in conditions like today there's ice on the ground aubrey ginsberg had the same idea. there's no way i'm walking out there. i'm over 65 and if i fall it's game over for me executive director randy dean says the crowds here a mild fall and so people had other outdoor activities to do but once the cold weather hits - little bit of snow - they come in in droves walkers... like tim... chuckle about the ice center being a ?warm, workout alternative. towards the end you can take some layers off. but yeah it is a little ironicworkers here expect the track to be busy all week with even colder the pettit is open from 5:30 am until 9 at night. it's four dollars to use the track. starting today, the fee to get a license to plow city owned alley ways will drop from 50- dollars to just 10-bucks. the hope is the decrease in cost will encourage more private plow operators to do the work. the city of milwaukee does not plow alleys... so homeowners and landlords need to hire private contractors. currently there are only two mp services in public city alleys. presiden

joining us now is former white house middle east policy adviser, ambassador marc ginsberg.s inked a year ago, but how dry is the ink on it if you're a business leader considering putting a new deal together? >> well, i certainly wouldn't be uncorking the champagne on this boeing deal. the house of representatives overwhelmingly voted to try to kill this deal before the congress ended its session, and this deal is going to be brought before the senate and the house and god knows what's going to happen then. and as well as the fact that the president-elect has tweeted somewhat inconsistently twice about this deal. so this really comes down again to the very question about whether or not the congress is going to tolerate doing business with iran when there's such anger and resentment towards iran's policies in the middle east. >> saying that the deal to sell those planes, though, will keep tens of thousands of jobs intact, does that make it more difficult for congress to strike it down? >> well, apparently not, because the house of representatives went ahead and didn't even ha

it tells a story about her grandmother, rosa ginsberg, she was held in angel island for a period of time before she was released to come to the united states, san francisco. heather grew up not knowing the story of her grandmother but only after her grandmother passed away and started looking through her belongings this story emerged and heather was fascinated by it and she began to do research. she went to angel island. she tried to track down this story of her grandmother and she has now transformed it into an operatic musical. >> for those who don't know, before mainland china became communist it was a vacation spot for many folks who lived in russia and so among the russians were jews who came to shanghai for vacationing. it was a safe haven for in many cases eastern european, german jews who came to shanghai to settle. we in the jewish call that as shanghai jews. angel island , so her grandmother came from shanghai to the united states from the pacific rim. fascinating. does she work with the museum on her pieces or does she kind of go off and do her artistic experience and then com

joining me from washington, ambassador marc ginsberg, former middle east policy adviser. for joining us. >> hi, katy. >> trump has also suggested his son-in-law jared kushner could broker peace talks between israel and palestine. what's the danger of getting family involved in foreign policy? >> i'm not sure there is a danger as well as they're well briefed. i know mr. kushner, his family has been involved in middle east issues, particularly in israel as a philanthropist for a great many years. it's not as if the children do not have, shall we say, a world knowledge of events. like anything else, i've served in the state department on and off for 16 years and you want to make sure that you're well briefed on the ins and outs, the nuances of these relationships. obviously, the goal and objective of peace in the middle east is something that is, shall we say, failed to have been obtained by successive partisan administrations, whether they be democrat or republican. at the same time, when the children are involved in foreign policy and whispering in father's ear, who happen

that's why they're exercising on the ice center's track. so much better to be in here today aubrey ginsberg says it's a matter not just of comfort... but safety. in conditions like today there's ice on the ground there's no way i'm walking out there. i'm over 65 and if i fall it's game over for me executive director randy dean says the crowds here always pick up on

he earned allen ginsberg by for bidding dirty work that ginsberg complained he would have to censor histhought patterns. there was extra concerned about eldridge cleaver and buckley made upon the following election by suggesting to cleaver before the start shooting at the sec, they would cancel his payment for appearing on the show. if there's any guess who did not need coaching and how not to incur the wrath of the sec it was civil rights maverick james farmer who was a very picture oe decorum. in an episode from 1966 buckley made some of his boilerplate libertarian arguments about pairs him the right to send the children to any school they wanted. he comes when people cap\cap discovering new rights and argued james baldwin was all wet. baldwin was buckley judging too pessimistic about what could be accomplished in america. farmer cut a striking figure as he defended baldwin. he conveyed and mounting frustration and anger that he seemed to try to tempt the downh each new cigarette he led. in his baritone, shades of james earl jones, farmer counters baldwins concert in northern negro gh

the key issue on the supremee court ison down the roosevelt re boulevard justice ruth baederstc ginsberg is 83,e anthony kennedy who is a moderate is 80, steven breyer is 78. 7 >> that's right.>> that's righ >> that's the whole ball t.game right there so the question isis do they all stay on the courtou through donald trump's four or eight year presidency or doesr d he get to replace one of them te >> we'll be watching.g. richard wolf from u.s.a. dam.am thanks so much for weighing weig in. in we appreciate it.cie i >> thank you. >> elizabeth warren a democratda is pushing her colleague veryuev hard to take a hard line lin against president-elect donaldin trump. >> she's receiving both clearss and groans for her efforts. joining us is alexander boltonnn staff writer from the hilliter with more on this.his. so, welcome and tell us, what wa do you think she hopes to achieve by this. colleagues and she sees thishe s bill that's on the floor during a lame duck session the 20's first century cure sac that has the support of vice ovi president joe biden.es she sees this as aid dress rehearsal f

with mark ginsberg who is a former mideast jimmyr to president carter. later, liz farmer talks about federal grant money being used by large ♪ trump wentdent-elect to nominate armor presidential candidate, dr. ben carson as the head of housing and urban development. dr. carson was his choice to advance his agenda for urban renewal and the inner-city. this is the washington journal for december 5. we will talk more on that later. the decision yesterday concerning an oil pipeline. the obama administration has put on hold a project in north dakota. that is known as the dakota protest -- dakota axis pipeline. we will learn more about the construction and the decision by the obama administration. if you have been following it, we want to get your input. if you're a north dakota resident and you want to give your thoughts on this decision, call us. if you want to post on twitter, you can do so. you can put a thought on facebook. the usa today has a story that takes a look at this decision by the administration concerning this dakota access pipeline. the headli

. >> ben ginsberg, let's continue that discussion. what do you see being very constructive in terms of the change in law or practice by the parties that would make the funding of campaigns by the parties more effective? for example, each of the national parties has an independent expenditure committee. if you count all the various ones that are in existence, it's about six in total. does having these parties spend significant numbers in isolation, without coordinating with the central party unit, a sensible way to do things? would it strengthen the roles of the parties as funders if they were able to coordinate more directly at least internally? your views on what could happen in terms of making the parties more significant in terms of funding campaigns. >> to answer that, i think you need to take a stark look at the system as it exists today, which is in limiting candidates and political parties in what they're allowed to raise, but with none of those limits, stretching back from buckley versus vallejo on individuals, and a series of

. >> ginsberg. >> somebody will say i'm predicting somebody's desmies. >> it's that they might leave.> i mean i'm just being honest and realistic. >> justice scalia would not have chosen to die under a democratic president if given the choice. >> an amazing human being. the ran he was amazing is because he understood his job when he went in there with the black robe was not to say this is what if legislature should have done but he didn't so we're going to do it for them. it's a very dangerous thing that's really only been in play about 40, 50, 60 years in america. it's not something that the original founders of our country would have tolerated. and it's something that we shouldn't tolerate. >> do you feel like as governor of arkansas this has been a legacy that you were able to leaf at the state level? and speak to, you know, how important this will be for president trump. he won the this election really by 80,000 votes if you consider wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania. and those 80,000 voters made a big difference. >> and those changes and the responsibility goes to the grandch

my name is ben ginsberg, and i am delighted that we have as our speaker today, naomi schaefer, who is a distinguished journalist and writer who's written for many publications including "the wall street journal," the chronicle of higher education, the weekly standard, too many to list, and is also the author of six books with a seven on its way to. i went to graduate school with her father which tells you how old i am. he's a little ahead of me. i first met naomi when we debated one another for "the new york times" blogging heads series. she wrote a book called "the faculty lounges," which was an attack on the tenure system which i thought it was outrageous. i'd written a book called "fall of the faculty," which defended the tenure system. so we had good fun debating that entire set of questions. i'm very confident that i have one but i have to confess she held herself very, very well. her most recent book deals with the topic most of us don't know much about the shameful condition of the indian reservations and the treatment that native americans receive from the federal government p

. >> ginsberg. >> somebody will say i'm predicting somebody's desmies. >> it's that they might leave.mean i'm just being honest and realistic. >> justice scalia would not have chosen to die under a democratic president if given the choice. >> an amazing human being. the ran he was amazing is because he understood his job when he went in there with the black robe was not to say this is what if legislature should have done but he didn't so we're going to do it for them. it's a very dangerous thing that's really only been in play about 40, 50, 60 years in america. it's not something that the original founders of our country would have tolerated. and it's something that we shouldn't tolerate. >> do you feel like as governor of arkansas this has been a legacy that you were able to leaf at the state level? and speak to, you know, how important this will be for president trump. he won the this election really by 80,000 votes if you consider wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania. and those 80,000 voters made a big difference. >> and those changes and the responsibility goes to the grandchildr

oz, billy baldwin, justice ruth bader ginsberg and at the hana corn tries out for the harlem globetrotters] >> thank you for joining me this evening. tonight we're going to have some schmoozing, some kibbutzing, and if you're lucky, maybe even a little mishegos what is going on? >> i'm hosting my own primetime hanukkah special. >> jimmy: he is not. you're stealing time away from my show right now. this is my show. it's not a primetime special. >> if you keep this up, i'm going to call security. and speaking of security, please welcome my security guard, shlomomo. >> shalom! oivay, mazza ball soups. >> jimmy: guillermo, what are you doing? >> can't a person make i living? >> jimmy: there they go, the -- >> no, no, jimmy. can i at least bring out my eight special celebrity guests? >> jimmy: no, you cannot. >> how about five? >> jimmy: no, none. >> one, one, one. >> jimmy: if i let you bring out one celebrity guest, will you promise never to do this again, next year? kiz. >> jimmy: okay, make it quick. okay, ladies and gentlemen, you know him from 'n sync, please give a big hana corn welcome

with mark ginsberg who is a former mideast jimmyr to president carter.er, liz farmer talks about federal grant money being used by large ♪ trump wentdent-elect to nominate armor presidential candidate, dr. ben carson as the head of housing and urban development. dr. carson was his choice to advance his agenda for urban renewal and the inner-city. this is the washington journal for december 5. we will talk more on that later. the decision yesterday concerning an oil pipeline. the obama administration has put on hold a project in north dakota. that is known as the dakota protest --

ginsberg: no, it is not working, it is getting peeled back, and that was the by and large of the comments. the chances of what commands -- what amounts to the food stands for politicians on the federal level is like slim and mill. if you want a solution for strengthening parties can you need to look beyond the notion that government handouts are going to help your favorite politician who we have been all saying are not held in particularly high regard by the public anyway. mr. pildes: and that is why we will not get bipartisan support for public financing at the federal level. mr. boucher: on a contentious note, i need to say our time has expired. i think we have done a terrific job. very informative. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> follow the transition of government on c-span as president-elect donald trump selects his cabinet and republicans and democrats repair for the next c

obviously by for death issue and how these adjudications in light of the up passage of that justice ginsbergjust quoted from judges to lawyers the and message is clear and unmistakable. you may not rely on clinical guidance. to evaluating of there is a sound reason for doing so. and if there is a consensus on that point whether the states do and the third is what do the state do and tellingly texas uses these factors with prohibition only with the death penalty contexts. end as the court explained explained, and the condition of the intellectual disability is far beyond the death penalty. so when it is treated very differently with much more severe restrictions other then the death penalty. >> let's go to that practical application of what your saying. and they found to that mr. moore had bid he could not prove he was intellectually disabled his psyche was hired with and what was generally recognized clinically so what is of broad and with respect to that problem and second with the function prong? identify the two ways in which what they're doing and applying the standards. >> and to be in

when we plan this conference ben ginsberg and i can about six months ago i thought what it was going to be about is here so hillary clinton's campaign marginally improved on barack obama's campaign of 2008 or 2012. here's the new digital tools and how she won. needless to say how she won. needless to say we had to change the topic. in part not because there's a surprise victory but there's all kinds of other issues dealing with the campaign who knew we would have to talk about macedonia teenagers putting up websites or fake news. that was not something that could be forecasted within the last eight months or year. so there is a to say. your question is a big one. then we talk about three things. first, digital tools are only tools, the fundamentals of a campaign and the quality of the candidate are not affected by those tools. secondly, there are things that trumped it in this campaign which were innovative, unexpected and not well know the need to be talked about. third, a larger question as to what the digital campaign is in this environment given how many changes we've seen in new

i think ginsberg mentioned this. donald trump did spend more money on facebook than hillary clinton. at least according to the campaign, they spent fully half of their money on digital and split it evenly between digital and tv and she certainly spend more on tv. the amount of money spent on digital in this campaign was three to four times the amount and previous campaign so we are seeing more in that direction but the campaigns, the media buys, what they spent their money on was radically different. one example, donald trump but almost zero local cable television advertising, something you would of thought four years ago was something everyone was doing this time. so, because his was more of a ,amshackle, impromptu improvised operation, he ended up outsourcing a lot of his campaign architecture to platforms themselves as of the --porting it in house which because hillary clinton had an operation that had been in development for some years so that one reason he ended up spending more money on facebook than hillary cl

words including one on one interviews in the past few months with justices elena kagan, thomas and ginsberg is there is a calendar for this term is a list of all current justices with links to quickly see all their appearances on c-span as well as many other supreme court videos available on demand. follow the supreme court at the stand.org. c-span.org. >> former astronaut and senator john glenn died thursday at the age of 95. we look back at his life and career and he attributes from members of the u.s. senate. 5 hours before taking a giant stride into history, colonel john glenn squeezes into his spacesuit, his smiling face the lies the perils of the flight that kept him grounded. the weather over cape canaveral and the pickup area is better and there is an air of optimism as the colonel walks to the gantry elevator carrying his now familiar portable air conditioner. glenn prepares to go to the 11th deck as clocks point to 6 am eastern standard time. these guys are beginning to lighten and a cool northwind brussels across the cape. rustles across the cape. the colonel's date with destiny

applying personal - destiny as with work for the wondering people one engaged if extensive differ phil ginsberg pathway and accident wondering establishment for the organization of holiness and vicious and wisdom and principle that leads people back to public it and for all that will be the business enterprise of having a kingdom god bless the holy kingdom. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you sxooepd and all the little ducks lame and mobile my name is a christopher's i live on 6 and howard less than 40 years from seawall he rise to comment on racism first, i wish you to take note there is at least one white man that has tried to start a dialogue on racism that man being my less than humble self-i've worn that shirt my opening statement in the dialogue awhile walking the sidewalks of san francisco for years during that time 2 hundred people an hour seen me wearing that 4 thousand smorg borrowed of customs that make our beloved city and county of san francisco i noticed a few people taking a second look all the people passed its the whitest human being they might see with two prof

. >> ben ginsberg. >> kellyanne, congratulations. >> thank you. >> always good to have a wily politicalwere talking with your role with the president-elect, what's the mix that you think you'll be taking on between long-term strategic issues and the sort of emergency firefight of the day? >> i think anyone's portfolio includes some of that. i don't imagine that we'll be a white house that's immune to unforeseen circumstances and events. this happens every time. i have spoken to people who have had a role similar to this in previous administrations, democratic and republican, and it's an important balance. it's going in every day and focusing on what your portfolio is, what you are expected to do on behalf of the president of the united states. at the same time, being flexible and nimble enough to recognize that there will be times when you can't even -- you're taking off of that and there are crises to deal with or there are unforeseen circumstances that have popped up. i mean, i know donald trump, and he's a leader who is able to be nimble and resilient, and just as politically speakin

and analyst that was commissioned by supervisor campos the mission district is rapidly gunmen phil ginsberghe push out of latinos and seniors and artists and disabled people is to rapid i'll give the numbers from the b l a 60 percent of the population was latino in 20002015 dropping below 50 percent and 2025 dropping half and the unable of wealthy people doubling with all due respect to the wealthy people that spoke in favor the project the families and others that are displaced rapidly but the wealthy is doubling to over 26 percent in 2025 the number is reduced in half and 21st percent to 11 percent in 2025 a serious situation soifshg and families for the demographics in the mission i feel strongly as people talk about newcomers that has to be based on respect for latino cultural dictate and a history that has been developed from irish to latino immigrants and has to be based on respect of that cultural heritage for the latino considerate that is an important part of san francisco blood and i wanted to thank all the people to defend the mission district and really stand up for a city that

transportation leader director reiskin and our superintendent lee and rec and parks director phil ginsberg. thank you all for being here with us this morning and i'm probably forgetting a few people, but i especially want to thank the school for hosting us this morning and principal chang and nurse catia has been amazing so let's give a round of applause for the school! [ applause ] >> so as the mayor mentioned for all of you voters and future voters out there, there are some really important measures on the ballot that i want to encourage you to take a look at. because these will help make our streets safe and those are propositions j and k and make sure you take a look at those before you go to vote. and i also want to encourage all of you to get active, follow manuel's advice, try to get out and try walking once this week. if you haven't already today. do it more often, if you already do it sometimes. to try to get out there and move your feet. i want to especially thank you our vision zero hero - have you met the vision zero hero? >> hi everybody ! so vision zero hero, what do we want?

own words including one-on-one interviews from the past few months with justices kagan, thomas and ginsbergfor this term, a list of all current justices with links to quickly see all of their appearances on c-span as well as many other supreme court videos available on demand. follow the supreme court at cspan.org. a group of activists talked about the increasing use of military equipment by local law enforcement. this event is organized by the group code pink. >> i guess we will get started. i was expecting some sort of grand introduction. i think we will just introduce ourselves very briefly as we get started and you may be aware that we just had a similar session in another room that was packed and i see some of the same people are here so we apologize for anything we repeat, but we will try not to repeat and we will try to be brief to make this largely a discussion. we will start with too money. for those of you who weren't in the last session, i am a third-year student at emory university in atlanta and i am studying international studies and environmental science. i also work for a gr