host: next phone call for jeffrey rosen. you are on the air.aller: i have two questions and a comment. my first question -- and this is nothing personal, just to get it out. jeffrey rosen, are you jewish? guest: i am, what does that matter? caller: i am not against them -- host: why do you bring it up? caller: in my opinion, europe, russia, the entire world is concerned about the occupation of palestine with israeli jews. host: i am not sure where he is going with that. let's go to market in new hampshire. caller: good morning. i apologize for my fellow american on the phone. i am 42 years old, white, three small children, and i work six days a week and i am losing everything. we look at our colleges, our judges, our government. we spent eight years with code pink, the war, and now that obama is president, the media discusses none of it as far as they did with president bush. i think our colleges -- you look at them and say they are conservative or liberal. the same thing with judges. guest: it is dismaying. this was par for the course. he neve

conversation tomorrow morning on "washington journal," and we have guests, william kristol, and jeffrey rosen, and the intent of the constitution. that's all tomorrow morning. thank you for joining us on this sunday. and a view of the capitol, for those who suffered yesterday. congresswoman gifford remains in critical condition. enjoy your sunday. >> thank you very much, mr. president, mr. vice president. you have honored me and my family. by giving me an opportunity to serve you and to serve our nation. >> with more than 80 appearances by william daly and you can use the c-span library to learn about new additions to the obama administration. of the thousand of people you can search online. at the c-span video library, it's washington your way. >> this week on "newsmakers," congressman henry waxman and our reporters this week to help with questions. david has the first question, go ahead. >> congressman. was there a moment this past week when it finally sunk in, democrats are now in the minority. how did it feel? >> well, it's been sinking in pretty quickly. since the election. but this week

host: next phone call for jeffrey rosen. you are on the air. caller: i have two questions and a comment. my first question -- and this is nothing personal, just to get it out. jeffrey rosen, are you jewish? guest: i am, what does that matter? caller: i am not against them -- host: why do you bring it up? caller: in my opinion, europe, russia, the entire world is concerned about the occupation of palestine with israeli jews. host: i am not sure where he is going with that. let's go to market in new hampshire. caller: good morning. i apologize for my fellow american on the phone. i am 42 years old, white, three small children, and i work six days a week and i am losing everything. we look at our colleges, our judges, our government. we spent eight years with code pink, the war, and now that obama is president, the media discusses none of it as far a they did with president bush. i think our colleges -- you look at them and say they are conservative or liberal. the same thing with judges. guest: it is dismaying. this was par for the course. he nev

particular pleasure for me to be able to introduce our first speaker for this panel, professor jeffrey rosen from the george washington university law school, school fall. i think among all of the people that have written and talked about the significance of surveillance, the human body and privacy there is probably no person who has written as broadly and as thoughtfully more with a keen insight to a direction to law might take us than professor rose in the coup -- rosen. he is a frequent contributor to "the new york times," did a piece in fact in "the new york times" magazine after he spent time in london looking at surveillance cameras and several important books. but as i said, this ability to one the one hand understand the broad significance of these types of technologies and the same time, sync how the courts and in particular judges and justices might assess this within our legal framework is all very fortunate to have with us today jeffrey rosen. >> thank you so much, marc, for those kind words. much of what i have learned about the young constitutionality of the body scanners has c

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professor jeffrey rosen is a legal affairs editor.is also a professor of law at george washington university. he is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is the author of about six books. >> for, not 6. >> two in the works. his essays have appeared in the "new york times" and " ththe atlantic monthly." he is the most widely read legal commentator according to e "los angeles times." thank you for coming. >> thank you for including me in this stimulating conversation. thank you for prof. codevilla for having written this provocative paper. i know you have all enjoyed reading it. there is much in his paper that i very much admire. i'd like the fact that he understands that the supreme court throughout history has not had a monopoly on constitutional interpretation. i liked the fact that he realizes it is a goo thing that globalized americans are reading the constitution, marching on the mall, and making their own judgments about what the words mean. in meyer him at agree with them that constitutiol change -- i admi

particular pleasure for me to be able to enter deuce our first -- introduce our first panelist, jeffrey rosenritten and talked about the significance of surveillance, the human body, and privacy, there's probably no person whose written as broadly and as thoughtfully nor as with keen insight to what the direction the law might take us than professor rosen. he is the legal columnist for the new republic, a frequent contributor to the "new york times," and did a piece, in fact, in the "new york times" magazine after he spent time in london looking at surveillance cameras there. several important books, but as i said, this ability to on the one hand understand the broad significance of these types of technologies and at the same time, think how the courts and even particular judges and justices might assess this within our legal framework manges us very fortunate to have with us today jeffrey rosen. >> thank you so much, mark, for those kind words. much of what i learned about the unconstitutionality of the body scanners has come from mark and epic's path breaking briefs and work, and i'm deligh

i want to begin by coming back to professor jeffrey rosen who has now heard from the various petitioners about the claims and i'm wondering if you have any initial response and then i will have a follow-up for you. >> my first response is how proud i am to be sitting on a podium with people doing this civil liberties work, what a wonderful thing is that second year law students are defending the constitutional values in the most direct way possible and your vivid account moral issues that are instinctive the dignitary issues that gets to the heart of the matter and ginger's explanation on the constitutional problems with these machines but also the statutory ones is very persuasive. i'm supposed to play what can i say. is the supreme court going to buy these arguments? predictions are hard. i think it was good to court justice souter in the strip search case that was 8-1, only justice thomas dissented, eight members understood the danger of strip searches. i think if i had but ten seconds at the beginning of an oral argument the solicitor general has to try to persuade the court, i would

jeffrey rosen also has an editorial today in the "new york times, looking at the constitution. and jack jennings, the chief executive officer on the center of education policy, a report that came out on some of the gaps in test scores on gender groups. meanwhile, we are keeping an eye on things in the nation's capital. there is a live view of the flags at half staff in honor of those killed yesterday in arizona. the democratic caucus chair is expected to meet with reporters later this afternoon. we will have coverage of those comments as democrats reflect on rep gabrielle gifford who remains in critical condition. we got a briefing from the medical team to hours ago. here is that event. >> good morning, everyone, and thank you for being here. i am the interim ceo of the university of arizona health care. university of arizona health care is the parent of the university, center where it this is located. in a few moments, i will turn the microphone over to our front line doctors. those are the people you want to hear from the most about the condition of the 10 patients we now hav