>> [laughter] justice ginsberg: it helps now and then to be a little deaf. >> [laughter] justice ginsberg: it was wonderful advice, not only in a marriage that lasted 56 years, dealing to this day in with my colleagues. >> [laughter] [applause] judge williams: so then you did get married. you had your ear plugs. go back one more on the script. you got married. hety -- he wasn't drafted -- went into the military. he started out harvard, then he had to go to the military. he moved in oklahoma to the social security office. that is when you first ran into real disparity. tell us about that. justice ginsberg: i worked at the social security office in oklahoma. a government junior professional exam. i thought i should tell the head of the a government junior professional exam. i thought i should tell the head of the office that i was three months pregnant. he said, you are pregnant? well, then we can't list you as a gs-5. we will list you at the bottom, rating, a government rating, a gs-2. you will do the same job, but at the lower rank. we can't possibly send you to baltimore for training. be

ustice ginsberg: oh, how beautiful. judge williams: these are beaded lowers, hand flowers. you represent so much and you're a thing -- a woman of beauty and strength and inspiration. we hope these will help inspire you on those days when you need inspiration. so you will stay there forever. [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> they are beautiful! [applause] announcer: tonight at 11:00 eastern, book publisher anniversary party and the. -- in washington dc. sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, nbc news correspondent reflects on the trump campaign and the 2016 presidential election in her book "unbelievable: by front seat -- ." nixon had a fraught relationship with his press corps. the legendary stories, his press person and getting into it with reporters. what is unusual was the very public nature of it and how he would go after reporters from the stage of rallies and have the crowd, encouraged the crowd to turn on us and boo us. announcer: journalists and the nationhost of taste the on the impact of changing technology on turner -- on journalism. he is interviewed by susan glasser. >

ustice ginsberg: oh, how beautiful. judge williams: these are beaded lowers, hand flowers. you represent so much and you're a thing -- a woman of beauty and strength and inspiration. we hope these will help inspire you on those days when you need inspiration. so you will stay there forever. [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> they are beautiful! [applause] >> tomorrow night we'll take you to the human rights campaign washington, d.c. with hillary clinton. jeff bezos hlg o. harris.tor you can listen live with the app.radio bookin us this weekend for tv live at the texas book festival in austin. saturday at ns 11:00 a.m. eastern and includes "code girls," "thursday night lights," the story of football in hool texas. kevin young, "the right of humbugs, phonies, fake news." farewell to ice, a report from the arctic. of book, the life and times michael a. ruthless why the world of smuggling. sunday, our live coverage starts at 3:00 p.m. eastern with with her book unspoken troup of the divide." the true stories of the drug f.b.i., and the battle for horseracing dynasty." and auth

one of his best friends you write about was justice ginsberg. >> that's right.ustice ginsberg was friends of his. my parents and her husband for over 30 years. they first started working together in the early '80s. she wrote the forward to this collection of speeches. the collection includes a roast that my father gave for justice ginsberg when he was on the supreme court and she was still on an appeals court. the affection they have for each other is clear from the forward and that roast. they were very good friends. >> dana: who would you suggest this is a good book for? i love it because i like good writing. i like the law even though i'm not a lawyer. i like that it's accessible. if you were thinking of someone to give this book to, who would it be? >> anybody interested in american government would be interested in this book. obviously, people very interested in the law would be. that's not all he talks about. in fact, most of these speeches aren't really about the law. they're about great figures in american history, american political philosophy. you ment

their spouses shared a love of cooking and justice ginsberg and my dad had a shared love of eating theouses cooks and able to focus on the many things they had in common apart from politics and law. >> tell me about his love of music and opera in particular. >> well, he -- it's not a love i shared. i watched from a distance. it was fun to see him enthusiastic about it. the way i would see it is when i was in the car with him and he would crank up the classical music and give me mini lessons what i should be listening to and why it was so great. it didn't can always convince me or necessarily take hold but it was fun to listen to. >> that's another thing really that bonded together ruth bader ginsberg and justice sca leia. the love of opera. they playered together on the stage. >> there's a great picture of them together at the washington opera. they had a lot of fun with that. >> she spoke at his service. i think we have part of that speech available. let's play a little bit of ruth bader ginsberg speaking. > he once asked how we could be friends given our disagreement on lots of thing

he settled in the lower east side and befriended allen ginsberg and other influential artists. he briefly studied at parsons school of design, but dropped out after his professor told him his drawings had no heart. instead, he held a string of odd jobs, working in construction, cutting grass, cleaning houses, babysitting, even winning money in atlantic city as a blackjack guru. in 1993, ai weiwei returned to china because his father was ill. he founded a highly influential architecture firm, named fake design, and dedicated himself to art and writing. in 2008 after a massive earthquake in sichuan, china, ai weiwei launched a citizen investigation to collect the names of the more than 5000 schoolchildren who died, partially as a result of the highly shoddy government coconstruction of f the schools. ai weiwei was highly critical of the gogovernment's reresponse te earthquake, sasaying -- "they intimidate, they jail, they persecute parents who demand the truth, and they brazenly stomp on the constitution and the basic rights of man." while his citizen investigation catapulted him

justice ginsberg offered her deaf it in addition what it means to bear arms in second amendment it meansto wear, bear, carry on your person or in a pocket or in your clothes and arm for the purpose of offense or defense in case of confrontation with another person justice scalia saw that and said thank you that's what we're going say bear arms means when it came time to write the heller opinion that does not mean that you can bear arms in any -- fashion that you would look the state can can regulate manner in which guns are carried. historically, courts thought that our society thought and courts approved the idea that people who hid their guns or con ceal guns sneaky perhaps wanted advantage of unfair surprise in a society where it was considered to be virtuous to openly carry arms and so conceal carry restrictions were u upheld always with the caveat that the right was not being totally destroyed and in those cases where it was totally destroyed those laws were struck down. today i think we have a different understanding in society -- virtually every state in the country is quite liber

ruth bader ginsberg talk to a group of law students about social justice. we will look at the government's role in combating workplace sexual harassment or it we will talk about private sector efforts to address the problem.

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o the author of the new york times bestseller, "notorious rbg: the life and times of ruth bader ginsberg." we welcome you all to democracy now! tomi-ann robertrts, louisie godbold, irin carmon. tomi-ann roberts, let's begin with you. let's begin with what happened to you more than 30 years ago in 1984. how did you come in contact with harvey weinstein? >> well, the stories are beginning to sound monotonous, right? chillingly familiar. i was waiting tables. i was a student at smith college and several friends and i had decided to spend the summer in new york city pursuing our dream. so we sublet an apartment. i was waiting tables at a restaurant, and that is where i met both top and harvey weinstein. they were relative newcomers on the scene. explained to me their new company miramax. and pretty soon, i was given to believe that i might be someone who could audition for a movie they were going to be writing and directing. it would have been their first movie they were writing and directing here in the united states. i think i thought to myself, such a new company might not take such a new

host: ruth baber ginsberg called this term nothing short of momentum. what is she saying? guest: she was doing all the ar april, then they get them out by june. reporters a favor so we could quote that. but she said it's going to be a momentum term. she's talking about these cases including one about redistricting. host: so on the screen we are ligsing some of the key cases. we do have this redistricting case. tell us what the arguments are. guest: to what extent lawmakers in states that draw districts much so on end, pretty as much as they want in order to maximize their own party's number of seats they can get. this case brings up the question of whether that can be a constitutional violation, courts never decided. or if they did rule there are restrictions on what states could do it could have courts n impact on how all states draw their districts. host: katie from alabama. caller: good morning. really glad to be on here. a lot of people don't seem to follow the reality of what donald trump represents. he has his mega crowd but thinks he's actually a pop list and going

. >> that's right, justice ginsberg but collective action -- >> the nra in the workplace, it says for the mutual benefit and protection. >> right. it doesn't say in the workshop. that's where it's directed in every context. >> i'm sorry. why is it directed there if it doesn't say that? in fact we said the opposite in east tech. we said employees seeking to improve working conditions through resort and administrative and judicial forums, essentially the legislators and court houses and agencies is covered by the mutual aid of protection clause. we came up against this question it was very clear the protection clause swept further than the workplace itself. whether you took those goals, activity to the workplace, in the agencies, in the courts it doesn't matter at all, all covered by section 7. >> that's right, just kagan. the key words is report. there's no right to proceed as a class once you get there. >> that's not the issue, is it? at least to me, you can explain this. you started out saying this is an arbitration case. i don't know that it is. i thought these contracts would forbi

host: ruth baber ginsberg called this term nothing short of momentum. what is she saying? guest: she was doing all the ar april, then they get them out by june. reporters a favor so we could quote that. but she said it's going to be a momentum term. she's talking about these cases including one about redistricting. host: so on the screen we are ligsing some of the key cases. we do have this redistricting case. tell us what the arguments are. guest: to what extent lawmakers in states that draw districts much so on end, pretty as much as they want in order to maximize their own party's number of seats they can get. this case brings up the question of whether that can be a constitutional violation, courts never decided. or if they did rule there are restrictions on what states could do it could have courts n impact on how all states draw their districts. host: katie from alabama. caller: good morning. really glad to be on here. a lot of people don't seem to follow the reality of what donald trump represents. he has his mega crowd but thinks he's actually a pop list and going

hello i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week catalonia you know the journalism is problematic when some of the journalists want their own bosses fired vietnam where many bloggers are challenging the state controlled news narrative and are paying the price indian journalists taking on nationalist voices say they're getting a cease and desist death threats via whatsapp fight this violence something lies and america's biggest pro-gun lobby group doing its thing online we're taking a second crack this week at the politicized polarized coverage coming out of spain in the aftermath of the independence referendum in catalonia hundreds of would be voters were left injured in a brutal police response to an electoral process the spanish government called unconstitutional that provoked another round of largely partisan coverage the tone and content of which depended on the news source whether the report was coming from outlets based in the dread or barcelona journalists at the madrid based national broadcaster t.v. or ca

and the supreme court justices ruth cater ginsberg injustice pallia participated in the fifth parallel to abuse. >> diversity. [laughter] >> her book will be published -- punished. [laughter] also published by oxford university press. in addition to new transcending partisanship on the supreme court and in the stand you also bring people together as a cabaret performer. >> if i had any real talent fuel enough to have any real talent. there is the of learning experience to get up onstage. so the audience regretted that a lot. >> as a professor of humanities at columbia university to specialize in intellectual history. is starting the bit of discussion and after identity politics. also we grew up a few miles away from the rapper m&m. >> last but not least professor april kelly from political science and legal studies. >> you are busy. spirit research explores the intersection of politics and in 2011 to the still divided academy. >> does your book feel more relevant today?. >> i wish i could say that is wrong but whatever is wrong in the book we say that is my has-been's par. [laughter] >

judge bourque and judge ginsberg and many others in the 1970's and 1980's. general meeselaid the ground work for a rule of law and law of rules. the notion as he put it in 1985, the judges should not be roaming at flarge the constitutional forest. so a few months ago i told john malcolm that i would talk about the separation of powers. i suppose that was was not a limiting legislation is of a topic for me. if you were in my judicial chambers, you would hear me saying to my clerks, every case is a separation of powers case. i believe that. who decides is the basic separation of powers question at the core of so many legal disputes. and the bread and butter of our docket on the d.c. circuit is interpretationor statutes. usually when deciding whether an agency exceeded the 12567 tori authority or limbs. that question of policing the balance between the legislative and executive branches, our administrative law docket nstitutes one of the most in american law. if you sat in our courtroom for a week or two and listened to case after case after case and i do not a

however, the supreme court justice right baider ginsberg just recently in georgetown law school she told students you might expect some surprises in this term. an historically the court has been very reluctant to tread into areas where it could be viewed as making a political judgment that's properly confined to the executive. it only has only one prediction that's entirely safe about the upcoming term and that is it will be mow meant us. >> that raised a lot of eyebrows up here today. you've got four liberal justices. you've got four conservative justice erks it is justice anthony ken can i who is the swing key vote on this. don't hold your breath. we're not expecting a decision on this at least until the winter. tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. >> coming up, president trump makes his first visit in hurricane rav vaijed puerto rico and calls the crisis there a strain on the u budget. i hate to tell you puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of hack whack. what he said did the devastation and why he he doesn't think it's a real catastrophe. chartering a get tofully suppli

exercise routine for ruth gator ginsberg.s live in the loft. >> might be begins burning aft you do the work out. the cork several in fact to celebrate national champagne d day. so there you go. 7:00 frick. >> fancy. >> we're fancy. >> maybe we could -- mike we can pop the corks right at steve yo. >> that might be fun. >> he would probably like that. >> so we're doing stunts together. we getting tattoos? >> yes. >> we riding shopping carts down the hill? >> the limit is only your imagination, mike. >> i can't wait. now i'm excited. >> don't do it. >> good day d.c. coming up. all right. sunny streak continues here. going to be absolutely gorgeous day for any outdoor activities you have going on after a brisk fall start bring the jacket as you head off to work this morning. by the afternoon hours mild air moves in, 70s return and you'll have nice afternoon. shorts and t-shirt weather i think this afternoon with mid 70s back in the forecast. we do need rain. rain will be here next week. so if you have any weekend plans no worry n

wisconsin is one example of where we see extreme partisan politics dictating, and as justice ginsbergking the districting preordained, and taking any real fairness out of the process. and wisconsin is an interesting state because it's not a state that we think of that contains lots of minorities, but this is very much an issue that impacts racial minorities significantly. not only do we have racial gerrymandering but democrats and republicans to go, and this happened on both sides, manipulating minority voters and using them as ponds in the political process and that has been happening for decades. and the fund where i work litigated against democrats and republicans in asserting they manipulated minority voters for political purposes. >> if you don't draw black seats, even though that creates locked in republicans, we're trading republican power for a little black power, and if you don't do that you won't have many african-americans in congress. what do you think of the argument? >> i think you can draw districts in a way that give african-americans and latinos and asian americans re

ruth bader ginsberg talk to a group of law students about social justice. we will look at the government's role in combating workplace sexual harassment or it we will talk about private sector efforts to address the problem. washington journal is next. >> working together, we will defeat this opioid epidemic. it will be defeated. host: president trump declared the opioid crisis is a health emergency. if grant money will be used to combat opioid abuse. critics say his actions fell short. we want to get your thoughts on the situation where you live and how it impacts you and your loved ones. if you leave in the eastern part of the country, (202) 748-8000. if you live in the mountain pacific area, (202) 784-8001. those of you impacted by the opioid crisis, (202) 748-8002. on can join the conversation facebook. the phone lines are open. let's start with this latest data from the wall street journal. a doubling of u.s. deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. there was a 21% jump in drug overdose deaths. overdose deaths and other 20,000 in jumped t

i am no expert, but i have a lot of confidence in our judicial system with ginsberg, and always have. believe pretty much in everything she stands for. i am greatly concerned about our executive branch. my students are as well. i hear the things they say and what their parents are saying, and they just have the confidence. i also belong to a union. i strongly believe in unions. their hands are tied, and they can only do so much for host: you say your students lack trust in the presidency, i want to know why? caller: they don't think that donald trump is a very ethical person. doesn't concerned he care about the environment. they are concerned he doesn't care about the poor and immigrants. host: how do they feel about congress? why the focus on the president? caller: they don't really -- they don't really think about the congress as much as they think about the president. the president is a big topic at home. i will be teaching them more about that this year. host: thanks for calling in this morning. dylan is in pennsylvania, line for republicans. what u.s. institutions do you trust? c