it's gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. it's outgrowth of the political system we all participate in this grand glorious democracy. not my favorite part, but it's real. justice sotomayor will become a supreme court justice after having gone through a gotcha process and we are going to hear a lot of gotcha over the coming weeks but at the end of today this is a smart proud woman who has fought her way through a system against tremendous odds to show that she has integrity, writ, intellect and ability to pass judgment on the most difficult intellectual challenges that face a supreme court justice. i'm proud to support her nomination and i look forward to the day and i'm confident that the day will come she will take her place on the highest court in the land. thank you, esther president and to the president for his indulgence. >> senator from minnesota. >> i want to thank the senator from kansas and senator mccaskill and senator shaheen and senator landrieu who spoke today. i also know senator children, feinstein, mikulski, l

we all engage in it at one time or knows it's gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. it's an outgrowth of the political system that we all participate in in this grand and glorious democracy. not my favorite part, but it's real. justice sotomayor will become a supreme court justice after having gone through a gotcha process. and we're going to hear a lot of gotcha's over the coming weeks. but at the end of the day, this is a smart, prow woman who has fought her way through a system against tremendous odds to show that she has integrity, grit, intellect, and the ability to pass judgment in the most difficult intellectual challenges that face a supreme court justice. i'm proud to support her nomination and i look forward to the day and i'm confident that the day will come that she will take her place on the highest court in the land. thank you, mr. president. and thank you to the senator from kansas for his indulgence. ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. cloib cloi i want to -- ms. klobuchar: i want to thank the senator from

it is gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. it is not my favorite part, but it is real.onia sotomayor will become a supreme court justice after having gone through a gotcha process. and we are going to hear a lot of gotchas in the coming weeks. at the end of the day, this is a smart, a proud woman who has fought her way through a system of tremendous odds to show that she has integrity, great, intellect, and the ability to pass judgment on the most difficult and intellectual challenges that face the supreme court justices. i am proud to support her nomination. i look forward to the day when she will take her place on the highest court in the land. thank you. and thank you to the center for -- from kansas for his indulgence. >> i want to thank the senator from kansas and others who spoke today. no that others will be -- i know that others will be speaking in the next few weeks. many of my colleagues will be speaking on this nominee as well. we are very excited about this upcoming hearing. we are glad we are able to be here. thank you. i yield the floor. ourç coverage of

gotcha, that's hard to me.i would much rather find out what they know and teach to their strengths rather than try to figure out their weaknesses. ms. cahill i have to ask in the era of no child left behind where there is a certain modicum of knowledge. every child is supposed to learn how do you make sure that these children answer these gotcha questions and yet teach so that they do have comprehension and how do you do that in a campaign and make the campaign part of what is already a difficult learning process we gather for teachers and students in the country in any case? >> guest: well, the campaign we limited the cost time -- class time a soaked up. we certainly had a number of other things and a areas in the curriculum we had to get through so when it was matthau were a was matthau were and we didn't do campaign stuff. >> host: so you did have to teach so the kids could take these exams? >> guest: absolutely. and that would be irresponsible making sure they've certainly been exposed and can master the si

it's not about gotcha questions or tricks or anchors who show off. we simply ask people question ques about what the news of the day. is there still seems to be a need for that and a market for that. "face the nation," "meet the press," "this week," the program on fox, these are places where washington talks to other people in washington, but also where the ideas first get floated out and laid out for people to think about. then washington can choose from what's said on sunday what to do the rest of the week. i think we serve a real purpose in what we do. i don't want to be too noble sounding about it, but that's basically what we do it used to be that the ideas got floated out by the super columnists in the newspapers, the james restons, joe crabb, walter libman, now people go on the sunday shows and lay out the ideas. host: what was the toughest interview you ever conducted? guest: i do not know, they all present their own challenges. some people come on the show determined not to say anything. i am not sure why they come on. one of the people i mo

playing gotcha with policyholders who have serious illnesses and huge expenses must stop. insurance companies cannot wait until customers are sick or filing claims to verify their medical history and decide whether or not they want them as a customer. this is what they're supposed to be doing when they sign the member up. if the company does not conduct a review of unclear or incomplete information on the application, then the plan should not use subsequently acquired information as a basis for rescinding coverage. this practice is known as post-claims underwriting. the company should conduct its due diligence at the time the application is filled out and submitted prior to issuing coverage. recisions should not be a license to find loopholes by investigating someone's medical history whenever they file a claim well after being accepted for coverage. not if the company hurried through the application process. not if the company blindly accepted most applicants. and not if the company gladly collected their money with no questions asked. this is inappropriate, and it should

and if we do it in a coordinated way -- >> gotcha. let me make sure i'm clear on this. your deal on the priority funding is not priority funding for everything else. >> no. just the things for which they're already dog in this area. >> the media. >> well, for example, if in fact they're trying to lose weight and they've got five programs with the states to lose weight, the first thing, the priority is let's get this media going. doesn't mean they have to stop it. it means they put this first. because we have a lot of data. look, we have a lot of data that says we're ineffective. for example, if in fact the cd c cdc -- >> would this cut funding for breast cancer screening? >> no. >> it would take priority over that. >> no, it wouldn't. no. because it takes priority over messaging, not screening. messaging on breast cancer. okay? breast cancer is one of the five. cancer is one of the -- that's the fifth group actually. >> one of the successes we've had with breast and cervical cancer xreeng and it's been a great success has been in the media campaign and getting the infor

from the general charge of extremist to particular instances of political "gotcha" wrenching statements out of context in order to paint a distorted picture of the nominee's record. at some level, partisan assaults are expected in the supreme court nomination process, but in the case of judge sotomayor, they're especially divorce from the body's good-faith exercise of its duty to advise and consent. it is one thing to attack a nominee's judicial philosophy when the president is trying to reshape the court based on judicial philosophy or when the balance of the court is at stake or when the senate and president are deeply divided. none of these situations apply to this nomination. judge sotomayor is a well qualified, mainstream jurist who does not threaten to tip the balance of the court and who is likely to be confirmed by a substantial margin. although these partisan attacks take many forms, today i'd like to address one persistent, unhelpful and baseless charge, that of so-called judicial activism. what's especially unhelpful about calling someone a judicial activist is many times it

of the use gotcha questions and yet teach so that they do have comprehension and how you do that in a campaign and make the campaign a part of what is already a difficult learning process we gather for teachers and students in our country in any state? >> guest: well, the campaign we lamented the class time that a soaked up. we certainly had a summer -- number of other areas of our curriculum we had to get through and so it was math hour was half-hour in we did not do campaign stop. >> host: you did have to teach so the kids to these exams test absolutely and i was responsible in making sure they have been exposed to and could master the sixth grade curriculum so that they could move on to seventh grade and be where they need to be hearing so that is completely appropriate. you know, we use our social studies block science to have our campaign meetings and then after school in those kind of things so i was a very clear with the school district about how i would manage time and make sure that the children were getting when they needed. you brought up no child left behind and i certainl