ginsburg?tains of bill clinton will be washed away and honor and dignity will finally be restored to the white house. >> well, that was actually, of course, the actor playing ginsberg who descended on florida for the bush-gore recount. it tells the story of how the 2000 election ended up in court where ben ginsburg and his republican lawyers beat the democratic lawyers and delivered the presidency to the man who came in second in the popular vote. here is the real ben ginsburg when he was working his magic in the recount. >> point of fact, we believe the original certification is valid, the election night results are valid, the first recount results are valid then a ongoing process of searching for a new set of rules by which to try and change the results of the election is not what's contemplated by florida law. >> when president obama appointed a bipartisan commission to recommend ways of improving our voting process, he had no doubt who he wanted to run it. he wanted his campaign lawyer and

ginsburg. my producer is getting so mad at me. we're running out of time. union days away, my takeaway is next and what the president faces. we want to hear from you. tell us how you'd finish this season. the state of the union is -- and then share it with us. here's mine. we'll be right back. first, white house soup of the day. chicken tortilla. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes life trips us up. sometimes we trip ourselves up. and although the mistakes may seem to just keep coming at you, so do the solutions. like multi-policy discounts from liberty mutual insurance. save up to 10% just for combining your auto and home insurance. call liberty mutual insurance at... [ thump ] to speak with an insurance expert and ask about all the personalized sav

what's interesting is the two people involved, co-chairman of the commission, ben ginsburg, republican, bop bauer, democrat, bob worked for obama but also worked on the gore side of the 2000 recount. ginsburg worked for romney but also worked on the bush side of the 2003 count and yet does it carry more heft the two of them were able to sit down at the table together? >> marriage made in heaven and president decided there was some utility in having these two foes, and they very quickly said as they produced themselves, called themselves hack and made jokes and said outside of this commission, we are nem is sis. we are enemies to one another in our political dispositions, outlooks, et cetera. but they wanted to -- both of them are very interested for their various reasons and experiences in improving the election experience and the experience for voters. they kept indicating what brought them together is to serve the voters. and there's no partisan disagreement about that. there were many things that were not in this report. for instance, they didn't want to touch electronic voting, onl

david sanger, ginsburg, chuck todd, thank you all. >> sure. >>> we have some breaking news.received a statement from chris christie on those new allegations today and road closures. here is the statement, quote, what i've seen today for the first time is unacceptable. i'm outraged and deeply saddened to learn not only was i misled by a member of my staff, but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. this type of behavior is unacceptable. he says i will not tolerate because the people of new jersey deserve better. this is not representative of me or my administration in any way and people will be held responsible for their actions. again, that's a new statement out just now. we will be right back with more. [ dennis ] it's always the same dilemma -- who gets the allstate safe driving bonus check. rock beats scissors! [ chuckles ] wife beats rock. and with two checks a year, everyone wins. [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for driving safely. only from allstate. call 866-906-8500 now. [ d

let me bring in former ambassador mark ginsburg, ambassador, good morning. >> good morning. >> what do the back and forth of ban ki-moon? >> guess who's not coming to dinner, it's not iran. this is clearly an indication of how the u.n. secretary general stepped, shall we say, over the cliff with respect to this agreement that he had reached with the iranian foreign minister without adequately consulting with secretary of state kerry or the syrian opposition. look, christine, the real challenge is ultimately can this conference reduce the hum humanitarian suffering inside syria? you can imagine the difficulties reaching any agreement. >> obviously, the goal of these talks, you want to establish a transitional government that both the opposition and government can agree to, but it begs, for example, on the state of the country. i'm going to quote him here, i will not hesitate for a second run for election. in short, we can say the chances for my candidacy are significant. what likely is going to come out of these talks? >> i'm afraid that with assad's position and the requirement by the

. >> that was ambassador mark ginsburg on our program yesterday.m pleased to be joined by elise jordan, former staffer and state department speechwriter for condoleezza rice and jamie williams, old expert and you are here to tell us how this is playing in a town that loves drama. in case you're wondering why you're here, jimmy. >> is that why i'm here? >> that's why you're here. >> this is interesting stuff. do you have a question or just want me to talk? >> no. just messing with you. going to elise because she's closer to foreign policy. >> got it. >> your thoughts on what ambassador ginsburg said on this program. >> i disagree with his premise but i haven't read the book. my take-away is gates was complaining about the centralization of policy at the white house. john britton, you know, having the kill list, going to the president, having so much power concentrate with tom donilon and ben rhodes and other nsc players who aren't accountable. >> donilon -- >> they have to testify in front of -- >> who was at the national security council before he

second, i there are two different interests that the state asserts when it makes that argument, ginsburg. first they say that are actual deliberate, there are some people who the state claims have deliberately violated the law and blocked the door and interfered with access. secondly the state says there's also some circumstances where are enough people on the sidewalk that even lawful consensual conversation might accidentally block a door. i think those are actually two interests, but they are tools in the tool box to deal with both of them, section e of this statute makes it illegal to impede, block, or hinder somebody's access to the clinics, and that section is not challenged here, has been. >> i should probably ask this of the other side, and i will. you happen to know when thathe last time massachusetts prosecuted somebody for obstructing abortion clinic? >> so i believe the last cite in the record that i'm aware of is as of 1997 theres with a decision in a previous case against people who had been adjudicated, on that to.97 case my nl they've never brought a case, for example, un

. >> reporter: in court today, justice ginsburg says the buffers make sense because they can't screen people to know who will be well behaved and who will disrupt. but they say it is equal to a good portion of the courtroom in court. justice kennedy adds you want me say there is no free speech on a right to converse on an issue of public importance? nationwide, 15 other states have similar buffer restrictions on zones. the judges seem prepared to strike the massachusetts law down as a blunt instrument that restricts too much speech. pete williams, nbc news, at the supreme court. >>> in new jersey tonight, the legislature there named a special counsel for the committee that will investigate the george washington bridge scandal involving governor chris christie's administration. he is a former assistant u.s. attorney, reid schar, the man who prosecuted former illinois governor rob blagojevich on corruption charges. in a poll tonight, 44% believe governor christie is telling the truth, while 33% say he is not. 30% view him favorably, and 28% have a favorable view of the governor. >>> and

one of ronald reagan's supreme court picks, douglas ginsburg. by the early '90s, as baby boomers admitted to smoking a joint didn't necessarily snuff out one's political future. >> i experimented with marijuana a time or two and didn't like it. and didn't inhale. >> reporter: it's been a long journey. in 1969, 84% of americans were against legalization of marijuana. today 58% are in favor. and the president may have just helped that number grow. >> and the president says marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, that's going to affect a lot of people, could change history. >> reporter: but general barry mccaffrey, who ran the clinton white house office of national drug control policy says legalization is a bad idea. >> early onset exposure to marijuana, to ecstasy, to beer consumption, is a pathway to a lifetime of addiction. >> reporter: the question now, how will the president's comments impact the debate? chuck todd, nbc news, washington. >>> we're back in a moment with the staggering news out today about the growing gap between the haves

. >> reporter: just ruth bader ginsburg provided by one reason: but opponents say that there are other laws designed to protect clinics from violence and obstruction and that this one goes beyond what's in place in other states and, scott, after listening to these arguments, it appears a majority of the justices will agree it goes too far. >> pelley: but that decision won't come probably until june. jan, thanks very much. stock prices made big gains today. the dow picked up 108 points, the s&p closed at a record high. the market was reacting to strong earnings reports from bank of america and a federal reserve report that the economy is growing at least moderately in most of the country. we'll be right back. in most of the country. we'll be right back. y there's cori it relieves cold symptoms without raising blood pressure. so look for powerful cold medicine with a heart. coricidin hbp. of the dusty basement at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great

here is supreme court justin ruth bader ginsburg. good to see you.e saw the chief justice john roberts walk by just a few minutes ago. here is stephen breyer and elena kagan walking by. they tend to not react, stand up and applaud and cheer. in fact, justice antonin scalia has voiced concern about going to these speeches in the past because he says it feels more like a pep rally. >> it makes what i'm about to describe even more surreal and bizarre. who i'm looking at right now is willie robertson. one of the stars of "duck dynasty." and he is here as a guest. >> i'm sorry to interrupt. you're discussion one of the stars of "duck dynasty" but do i have the vice president and the senate majority leader harry reid. vice president biden, good to see you. leader reid, how are you? good to see you, sir. mr. durbin, how are you doing? good to see you. mr. bennett. we have all the senators coming in now. now you know we're getting serious. supreme court justices, members of the senate. things are getting serious here. dana, i'm sorry, you were talking about

. >> there's an embrace from ruth bader ginsburg. >> shaking hands. >> and then the joint chiefs. >> general martin dempsey. >> you say important moment. tell me why. >> it's military. i think that's another just ray talked about the civic nature of this. that's a real respect of the men and women who serve our country and put themselves in harm's way. >> we half and we're kidding, but this is a very important moment for the country. >> yeah. i mean, you know, the state of our nation is strong and healthy. that's. >> and safe. >> secure, exactly. that's what he's signaling there before he talks about it. it's an important moment. >> david one wanted in. >> i was just going to say the president had a field day with the audio, one of the few times you can hear the president's interaction with congress and i think a a lot of folks are fog to go back and play what it is that the president said to ruth bader ginsburg or others he shook hands with, because you can literally hear what the president is saying. >> my hearing's not that good. i missed that, but willis later. let's listen to th

>> larissa ginsburg, the founder. we take the design process.everything from beginning to end. everything passes to high-quality tests. everything is just as good as what you would pay hundreds of dollars for. >> where did you come up with the idea that this was something needed solving. >> people walked in and they cringed when they needed to buy new glasses. they are scared of the prices. knowing how much it costs to make, this problem needs to be solved. we need to figure out a way to make it cheaper and not have people fear about losing their glasses or breaking them. much.on't cost that >> why the $109 rise point? us, if we introduce new frames, and gives us a price point of don't have to increase the price. a scenario where we can play around with metal frames. we don't have to go up and down with different prices. we want to keep it one simple price for everything. >> what if you don't necessarily stock eight, would you make that? a more popular item? >> we get request. we try and stay fashion forward. we transit what customers want and m

one of ronald reagan's supreme court picks, douglas ginsburg. by the early '90s, as baby boomers admitted to smoking a joint didn't necessarily snuff out one's political future. >> i experimented with marijuana a time or two and didn't like it. and didn't inhale. >> reporter: it's been a long journey. in 1969, 84% of americans were against legalization of marijuana. today 58% are in favor. and the president may have just helped that number grow. >> and the president says marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, that's going to affect a lot of people, could change history. >> reporter: but general barry mccaffrey, who ran the clinton white house office of national drug control policy says legalization is a bad idea. >> early onset exposure to marijuana, to ecstasy, to beer consumption, is a pathway to a lifetime of addiction. >> reporter: the question now, how will the president's comments impact the debate? chuck todd, nbc news, washington. >>> we're back in a moment with the staggering news out today about the growing gap between the haves

the department's general manager, phil ginsburg, says that over the past few years they've been working to reduce water useage but the declaration means rec and parks is now looking for even deeper cuts. our operations staff immediately issued a series of directives to our staff and we are currently conducting water audits at some of our highest water >> here locally in santa clara county we're looking at a very low reservoir >> reporter: that government agency provides drinking water to 1.8 million people in the south bay. the drug is so bad that the district is considering a $500,000 plan just to get their message across. >> marketing >> reporter: doubling the rebates for water saving equipment like high efficiency washers or toilets. the board will also look at new water conservation policies secret that at the pizza shop says he will look at ways to save water in his own shop. >> every homeowner our business buster part and that is what we are trying to do here. >> reporter: during tough times like this by the way, the district will vote on the $500 a mess measure. >> pam: after wee

there is ruth bader ginsburg. there are other members of the supreme court that will be in attendance for two nights state of the union address. tonight's state of the union address. >> there you have it. members of the supreme court and also members of the supreme court. they will be in attendance for tonight's state of the union address. there is the democratic leader, harry reid, as well. one prominent member is not in attendance tonight. >> back in the 1950s, it was the beginning of the nuclear air or -- era. it began to dawn on them they should not have the entire government under one roof at a time. branch began designating at least one cabinet officer not to attend. members were noticing that pattern. it became pretty audience -- obvious. they thought it was not a good idea to have all members of congress. it should have a couple of members not to be there in case there is an emergency. rarely are all of the members of congress there anyway. some of the senior members prefer to watch it on television. they

supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg countered, saying the buffer zone gives patients a little time before reaching the door. so, the conversation can go on before those seven to ten seconds. court watchers today say this could go either direction. a decision that means so much to so many. reena ninan, abc news, boston. >>> and next here, an urgent headline tonight about keeping your memory and drinking alcohol. the journal "neurology" shows how alcohol, even beer, wine, speeds up memory loss. but it seems only if you drink a certain amount. so, how much? the surprising results of the study, now, from abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: about now, you may have begun to pour that end of the day drink. a glass of wine or beer, or perhaps something even a little stronger. but on this night, a word of caution. british researchers tracked a group of 5,000 middle-aged men for a decade. they tallied how much they drank each night and gave them all memory tests. the results were clear. the heavier the drinkers experienced a more rapid memory decline later in life, than light drinkers. in other

and there's one of ruth nader ginsburg. >> reporter: they say they know these are carrick ak turs andicatures. >> reporter: as someone who likes to cycle, he's going to be on a bike. i'm not sure how that's going to work with his black robe but they'll figure it out. >> who's there? i see ruth bader ginsburg in the middle. >> doesn't it look look her and this is clarence thomas and an older one, barry blackmon. there's baseball bat. it rep,,,, >>> a texas mother says her daughter never wanted to be on life support if something happened to her. something did happen but the hospital is refusing to turn off the machine. how a little known law is creating a legal debate over the right to die. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." [woman] ask me what it's like to get your best night's sleep every night. [announcer] why not talk to someone who's sleeping on the most highly recommended bed in america? [woman] ask me about my tempur-pedic. [man] ask me how fast i fall asleep. [woman] ask me about staying asleep. [announcer] tempur-pedic owners are more satisfied than owners of any traditional m

. >> of course, justice ginsburg's question points out that your argument is, it seems to me, in search of a limiting principle. break, break, a one-day you have thought about this. a three-day break, a one-week break, one month break. how do you resolve that problem for us? >> i think the way we resolve that problem is by looking to the adjournment clause. we think that if it is a break that is sufficiently short, that it would not require the one house to get the consent of the other, but that is a de minimis recess and that is not a recess in which the president would have authority. >> is that three days? >> what about the pro forma session? rex they do not require the consent of the other house. >> the problem with the pro forma sessions, i think, is in taking about the link of the recess. the recess, we would submit, and this is based on the formal action very definition of recess at the time of the founding and now, which is a suspension of business i'm a recess was from january 3 when the session started until january 23 and the reason i think -- >> you think there is no recess

. >> the film starts with this man in bolivia, yasse ginsburg. he got lost and incredibly, it brought more people to the jungle, that wanted to replicate the reality that yasse had. >> the question was why do people want to do that? and there's an israeli traveler in her film. that said i just want to have a little touch that's in the book. >> a flavor. >> yeah, i am really not sure if all these travelers want survival, but a swedish traveler said i've got to get in the jungle and her boyfriend said, i don't want to do that. >> this impacts people, people who have not been exposed to western society or modern society the way people in new york city are. >> the party type travelers, certainly that's a minority among travelers, but there are other places in laos, experiencing the same way, and drugs introduced in larger scale that it wasn't a larger part of the culture. certainly other things as well. >> changes places in all different sorts of ways. >> grappling with those sorts of issues. >> can it be managed properly? obviously, people do want t

this photograph and ruth bader ginsburg, all of the supreme court when men do the to -- women, incredible. we went from zero to several in my lifetime although it would be nice to have half and half of all you have to have half a person because there are nine. there was one directed shot in the capitol rotunda. we had a dinner party with the women and prior to the filming there was a sort of cocktail reception and i was able to meet sandra day o'connor and i also met devotee for them to the trustee six -- betty they said that mia hamm because the women had won the world cup and i was delighted that she had advocated greater attention to women's sports. there was a thrilling occasion and i was one of the less famous people in the world of the achievers but my role was to sort of represent the women's history person and in part of the film i took my students around d.c. and we pointed out how easy it is to imagine women as justice and liberty as the statue of liberty and holding up scales at the supreme court, the but we don't have that many actual women and there was a whole controversy ov

the suggestions came from a commission chaired by bob bauer, representing the left, and ben ginsburg,f online voter registration, an expansion of early voting, and an increased use of schools as polling places. these weren't all that bipartisan for some members of the republican party. a new conservative pack called sos for sos plans to spend $10 million to target sos. smart voting policies like voter id measures, proof of citizenship requirements, and removing ineligible voters. are they really smart voting policies or strategies to repress voting? look no further than north carolina. according to the southern coalition for justice, in that state alone, over 318,000 residents lack a state issued id. it isn't only shameless. it's fraudulent. the thing worth saving is free and unfettered access to the voting book. >>> after the break, it is known as the windy city and chi-town, but it is being associated with a new name, chi-rock. that's coming up next. morgan brennan has the cnbc market wrap. >>> we had a mixed session today. the dow falling 41 points. the s&p 500 gaining one point an

ginsburg. gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> mr.rg, let me start with you, the premise of the report and it's very specific, is that no citizen should have to wait more than 30 minutes to vote. do you think that is feasible and what do we have to change about our system in order to get that? >> in the commission studies, which was involved in detail, we talked to many of the administrators who had long lines in their districts. and what we discovered is that the problems that caused the long lines were all identifiable and solvable. and what the report does is go through quite a large number of recommendations and best practices with which to fulfill that. but we primarily found there's not adequate planning by the local administrators to do that and in one of the things the commission discovered in its testimony was there are a number of very good online tools that are available to administrators to help them plan, understand the flow of elections, kind of get things right. and those will be available. they're available now on the

justice ginsburg, that is an interesting question. there is a question as to whether the session of the 1/12 congress ended on january 3 and therefore we have the same teddy roosevelt situation, or whether by adjourning on december 30 and conduct of getting no further meetings until january 3, whether that in effect was a sine die adjournment that ended the first session of the congress. if the president had the same view, he could've taken the view about the sessions between december 17 and january 3 and could have had a better legal argument and attending to claim that between december 20 30th -- he did not do that. by waiting until the convening of the first session of the second section of the 112 congress, by january 4 instead of january 3, he gave an extra year to his appointees to serve. that shows this is indeed the bottom of the slippery slope. it is a complete abuse of the process. it is being used for no other purpose than to overcome the senate opposition or disinclination to agree with the president's nominations. the fra

but as ben said at the outset, bin ginsburg andtben ginsberg and i i do not think have ever voted the same weight. >> before as he puts it, he matured. we just fight each other all the time. i cannot thank him enough. we were able to acknowledge the agreement. keeping in mind the sanders that guided the report and had the extraordinary support of the commission, i think we were able to get something done. with that, we will open it up. >> we will open it up for questions and discussion. lex the election officials will read and take to heart and implement and where necessary some of these things may involve legislative change. i was wondering if there may be any outreach to county legislators for the implementation of some of these recommendations and what form that outreach would take. >> in general, everyone on the commission, we want to become evangelists for this project. we did go meet. that is our goal going forward. to go to the same group's that are decision-makers. we would love to be on the agenda to talk about that. on the respective states, we want to engage local legislati

some of you may have read, and if you haven't, you should because it's a magnificent rant, william ginsburg's the fall of the faculty which is one take on administrators and how they've ruined education. and it's beautiful. or. [laughter] well, what do you do about that? i have one suggestion. if anybody from u.s. news is watching in the audience or anything, u.s. news when it does its college rankings should give colleges points for lean administrations. colleges are going to have to do this anyway because except for the very few elite colleges, they are going to have to bring costs under control. and even the very elite colleges are going to have to bring costs under control ultimately so long as they expect somebody to pay for it. if they don't, they will become, essentially are, finishing schools for rich people which is, of course, what colleges were 100, 150 years ago. will we really see, as john quoted me as saying, five elite colleges in the future? i mean, we might. i'm not the only one to think that. sebastian thro, this has said that. he's a researcher professor at stanford. i call

. >> and supreme court justice ruth ginsburg says that they are dedicated to under mine.e today, pro life, it would have surprised them if you asked that question at 48%, why are things changing? do you think it is related to sonograms and technology? >> i think it has to do with the sonograms and science that promotes technology. what is really interesting today talking about the people who go about the change. it is not necessarily even through legislation, they're doing it through love, and changing minds. the last 26 years, the statistics on pro life have switched. more people now see themselves as pro life more than pro choice. and the most compelling number is that young people ages 18 to 29, overwhelmingly, two thirds of them support strict restrictions on abortion, which is really where it is going to matter going forward in the future on this issue. >> all right, thanks guys, on that issue in the very cold weather. appreciate it. >>> and coming up, critics claim it is one of the best movies of the year and i agree. so why were they snubbed by the academy? and why

then it goes to justice scalia, and that justice kennedy, justice thomas, justice ginsburg, me, justice alito, justice sotomayor, and justice kagan. each of us will take note of what the others say. nobody speaks twice until everyone has spoken once. that is a very good rule in any small group. everybody feels they have gotten a fair chance. then there will be back-and-forth discussions. probably a little bit more with chief justice roberts then with rehnquist. the point of the discussion, and the point of what i have said is not to say that i have a better argument. there are hundreds of arguments. it is what i think. the reason why i am waiting in this direction is -- and it better be truthful. that is why they are in private. i do not have to worry about what i am saying, i can try things on. there is some discussion back and forth. on the basis of that, people would cast a tentative vote, but it is less tentative than it would have been the day before. and it is less tentative than it would have been before the oral arguments. on the basis of that, the chief justice will assign some

then it goes to justice scalia, and that justice kennedy, justice thomas, justice ginsburg, me, justice alito, justice sotomayor, and justice kagan. each of us will take note of what the others say. nobody speaks twice until everyone has spoken once. that is a very good rule in any small group. everybody feels they have gotten a fair chance. then there will be back-and- forth discussions. probably a little bit more with chief justice roberts then with red whisks -- rehnquist. the point of the discussion, and the point of what i have said is not to say that i have a better argument. there are hundreds of arguments. it is what i think. the reason why i am waiting in this direction is -- and it better be truthful. that is why they are in private. i do not have to worry about what i am saying, i can try things on. there is some discussion back and forth. on the basis of that, people would cast a tentative vote, but it is less tentative than it would have been the day before. and it is less tentative than it would have been before the oral arguments. on the basis of that, the chief justice w

ambassador ginsburg was against that.nowden's massive theft, she writes, justified by the degree of governmental intrusion that he unveiled. edward snowden told people of britain, he's still working for the nsa, it's just the nsa doesn't realize this. love this idea of an employee you can't get rid of. do you buy this concept that he is working for the nsa? >> it seems like he's at at will employee in reverse or something. i think if they haven't handed them the termination papers just yet, they are trying to find a way to get them to him. this computer is -- it seems like this machine that takes on the life of its own. one of the things that's surprised many people, the nsa will do what they have to do to get this information, i don't know if any law or human being can top sthem. >> how does a quantum computer work? i'm just kidding. >> okay. >> if you know -- >> oh, god, no, i don't know. >> tour'e, i think snowden has a positive mental attitude. they try to fire you and no, i'm still working there. >> live in russia. >

>> justice ginsburg, i think there's a continuum. the notion of the implied covenant as justice scalia explained for the d.c. circuit and the time share decision is a label that encompasses many meanings. some states like illinois and connecticut use the doctrine purely as an interpretive device to discern the intent of the parties. other states at the other end of the spectrum, arizona is one, use the same concept to encompass extra contractual principles. >> state by state. it seems to me the regime proposed by the petitioner is much more manageable. if it goes beyond the words of the contract, and you're reading into something it doesn't say, it is a matter of state policy. i can work with that. but you're asking me to go through each of the 50 states, one by one, to decide, oh, which of these are really trying to discern the intent of the parties and which ones aren't. especially since you're discerning the intent of the parties by simply saying parties intend to apply community standards and there's different community standards

he pointed to a supreme court decision that struck down part of the voting rights act: >> justice ginsburg got it right when she said throwing out the existing process when it's working and continues to work is, quote, like throwing away an umbrella in a rainstorm because you're not getting wet. and now we're in a hailstorm, new attempts by states and localities to limit ballot access without the full protection of the law. >> reporter: the first family marked the occasion by taking part in a national day of service to honor king's legacy. president and mrs. obama and their two daughters volunteered at a community kitchen, helping to prepare meals for local shelters. and there were events nationwide. in king's hometown of atlanta, celebrants paid tribute with dancing, singing, and drum performances. in denver, thousands gathered at the "i have a dream" monument for the mile-high city's annual king day parade. adults and children also turned out in st. paul, minnesota to march in honor of dr. king's life and mission. >> we need to forgive what has happened bad to us in this country and look

then it goes to justice scalia, and that justice kennedy, justice thomas, justice ginsburg, me, justice alito, justice sotomayor, and justice kagan. each of us will take note of what the others say. nobody speaks

i have to say i'm encouraged by the president's commission and when ben ginsburg joins with bob bauerwe immediate to do things that can enhance the voting experience rather than subtract from it, it tells you that this is not simply all a bunch of partisans moving in one direction. there are plenty that do. >> romney people onboard. >> we are honored to have you on the show. your 2012 book, "it is even worse than it looks." a huge impact on me and a lot of people. and you explain the game of obstruction and how it is working. you say that, you know, one party's deliberate intransigence causes damage to all the actors in the process and which means people go home and say congress can't get its act together which contributes to these sinking low approval rate things that congress has 9%, 8%, 7%. which means that that contributes to the conservative argument that government itself is the problem. they see and it get what they want on the other end. how do we get out of this game? >> you know, one of the problems is this is no longer jon huntsman's republican party. it is not a party of w

let's bring in mark ginsburg, a foreign affairs adviser to senator ted kennedy.ow we have a situation where we've seen recent attacks that killed 30 people that authorities suspect islamic terrorists from the north k caucasus are behind. sounds to me like we have a recipe for a security nightmare. >> well, indeed, toure. let's draw the connection here so our viewers understand. the tsarnaev brothers, remember when one of them went back to dagastan in chechnya? he was inspired by the very person who is claiming responsibility for these attacks now that have affected the city of volgograd and are trying to disrupt the olympics. so we must understand that in this country in the caucasus, is considered by the european union to be the most dangerous country in europe and the location where al qaeda and these chechnyan rebels come together. >> that was actually my initial question when i read this. is there any connection to the tsarnaev brothers? that will clearly play out further as this goes along. the one thing the two countries have in common despite our differenc

. >> ben ginsburg, bob baur, thank you both very much within thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: now the challenges of combating climate change. this week, the european union announced it was loosening its strict environmental regulations in the face of economic setbacks. in the u.s., renewable sources of energy like wind and solar have struggled to take hold on a large scale. as gabriela quinos of k.q.e.d in san francisco reports, one major effort to harness the power of the desert sun shows promise, but has its own affect on the land. >> what's that sort of shiny object off in the distance there, over a sea of mirrors? that's the irs thing you see are the towers from over the pound takens and as you get a little closer you begin to see a sen of a scale of how it is designed. >> three giant towers and three 300,000 mirrors have gone up in california's mojave desert one hour south of las vegas. the 2.2 billion dollar ivan pod solar project is the largest of it's kind in the world. it will be able to rao as much electricity as a medium sized natural gas plant. but without the carbon e

various warring factions, the american interests and options in the region and former ambassador mark ginsburge. >> sure, karen. >> ambassador, i want to start with you. we talked about syria as a proxy war. now as it's spilling into lebanon, it feels like, this is what "the new york times" was sort of getting at, this is a war that doesn't have a geographic boundary. it is much more of a boundary among allied groups, if you will. >> well, absolutely. in fact, we fought al qaeda after afghanistan and 9/11 on the basis that al qaeda and its ideology was directed against the west and directed against the united states, which it still is. but what al qaeda has been able to do is seize its sunni tentacles. and in effect, become al qaeda 2.0 to use the traditional hatred between sunni and shiite to gravitate itself and to become the dominating sunni force in this confrontation that has gone on for centuries between sunnis and shiites, which is why we're seeing syria and the cancer that syria is spreading its infection to iraq, to lebanon and elsewhere, resurge itself. that's the real danger here, b

then it goes to justice scalia, and that justice kennedy, justice thomas, justice ginsburg, me, justice alito, justice sotomayor, and justice kagan. each of us will take note of what the others say. nobody speaks twice until everyone has spoken once. that is a very good rule in any small group. everybody feels they have gotten a fair chance. then there will be back-and-forth discussions. probably a little bit more with chief justice roberts then with rehnquist. the point of the discussion, and the point of what i have said is not to say that i have a better argument. there are hundreds of arguments. it is what i think. the reason why i am waiting in this direction is -- and it better be truthful. that is why they are in private. i do not have to worry about what i am saying, i can try things on. there is some discussion back and forth. on the basis of that, people would cast a tentative vote, but it is less tentative than it would have been the day before. and it is less tentative than it would have been before the oral arguments. on the basis of that, the chief justice will assign some

but as ben said at the outset, bin ginsburg and i, i don't know if we've ever voted the same way. before you sort of turned to the dark side, you may have -- before, as he puts it, he matured. [laughter] what we are going to go off and fight each other more now. it is what we do. we are going to be fighting continuously. but i cannot thank them enough, acknowledge the agreement. but keeping in mind the standards that guided the report and had the extraordinary support of the commission, i think we were able to get something done. with that, we will open it up for discussions, bringing together stakeholders, and we cannot thank them enough. so with that, we will open it up? >> we are going to open it up for questions and discussion. >> we were talking about having recommendations that we hope the election officials will read and take to heart and implement and where necessary, some of these things may involve legislative change. i was wondering if there may be any outreach to county legislators for the implementation of some of these recommendations and what form that outreach woul

. >> the supreme court justices, ruth bader ginsburg, she will be staying around front and center tonight so we'll have another quick sbroe duction that wiintroducti come from the lecturn. lot of people participated in this speech in all areas of government. your hope is once you make it into the draft you don't get cut out of this part, the president saying something like "don't fall asleep tonight." rrj aides surprises tonight so we'll wait for those. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> members of congress, i have the high privilege and his dichin distichdi distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the united states. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. mr. speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans, today in america a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it and did her part to lift america's graduation rate to its highest levels in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech startup and did her part to add to the more than 8 mill

. >> that goes back to justice ginsburg's question. with the fluctuating conditions at a particular site? >> this is not something that should be addressed but the statute like this, this is something that should be addressed with the statute for large crowds or dispersal statute. the amicus brief talks about how concord, new hampshire and los angeles deal with these problems. >> it is the case that not only abortion counselors are excluded, everybody is? anybody who wants to talk to anybody? this is a dead speech zone? >> in many respects it is. it is no different than the speech free zone in the jews for jesus case. it's a place where the government claimed that can turn off the first amendment. >> you can't sell hats there. you can't beg there. >> they have agreed other things, but also speech. >> employees are permitted to speak within the scope of their employment. >> they have eliminated speech for all people. the attorney general reads this to -- >> i don't think that interpretation does very much. >> -- determines scope of empl

if you don't think we did would make a difference difference, think about justice ginsburg and elite -- leave the better. had she not read that i am absolutely certain they're not would have been so much momentum for congress to actually act to rectify the supreme court's decision. she did not change your decision of the court but that impacted decision we need to be there and to interpret the of law that affect women's lives in and we need to be the reality check. >> a couple of other points then to move god. i have been dealing with a number of issues. one of those is medical research. i have been involved with dr. paulette johnson who could not be here today but the director of women at brigham and women's hospital 20 years ago congress passed the national institute for health revitalization act. you probably did not note it because i did not know its that when it was passed for the first time that nih grant was given in and the grant was funded the law required women and people of color be part of the research. before then you could do what you wanted or only been. after that the