>> jeffrey rosen, vice president of san francisco cab driver association 20 year cab driver, these companies, are guied in a deceitful manner and they are operating in the same manner, and our group is sphere headed the collection of data over 4,000 license plates and, that is just a sample, and we don't know how many are out there but there are thousands and thousands, approximately 1900 cabs only. and and we are talking about the liability insurance background checks and vehicle inspection and they are operating without any proper commercial liability. if i work in a store and no one is in the store does that mean that i am not covered in the insurance? it is the same thing as being in the transportation service and the price, surging, i mean, pardon me, and they have neighborhoods that are changing from hour it hour as far as costs. and they are discriminating against the public, this is a public safety, issue, and >> it has. >> and let me just finish by saying. >> wrap up quickly. >> taxi cab transportation service it is your duty as regulators. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> high my nam

>> jeffrey rosen, vice president of san francisco cab driver association 20 year cab driver, these companies, are guied in a deceitful manner and they are operating in the same manner, and our group is sphere headed the collection of data over 4,000 license plates and, that is just a sample, and we don't know how many are out there but there are thousands and thousands, approximately 1900 cabs only. and and we are talking about the liability insurance background checks and vehicle inspection and

joining me now are congresswoman jan schakowsky, who is outside of the supreme court today, and jeffrey rosen, professor at george washington law school and president and ceo of the national constitution center. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend al. >> thank you, reverend. >> jeff, let me go to you first. this could be the defining case of the supreme court term. how unusual is what's being sought in this case? >> well, justice sotomayor said it's very unusual. she said name one case in which corporations have the same religious liberty rights as persons. and if the court rules broadly and extends the logic of citizens united saying corporations have the same speech rights and liberal rights, this could mean that religiously motivated corporations can claim exemptions from anti-discrimination laws. you mentioned gays and lesbians. yesterday the court delayed about whether to hear a case about whether a wedding photographer can refuse to photograph a gay wedding on religious grounds. so it could have very significant consequences. >> you know congresswoman justice elena kag

and jeffrey rosen car president of this wonderful institution. the national constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis and is part of the wonderful mandate, we have three goals for we the people in a rare copy of the bill of rights. we are center for civic education that we are americans townhall, the one place that i meant outside the constitutional debates different in american society and allow citizens to make up their own mind. in the past weeks in coming months we've had such a remarkable exciting variety of townhall programs. just like week we had a debate between -- [inaudible] about whether the constitution has power to kill its citizens abroad. about the socially now but after browsing speak, the audience changed its mind ts. tomorrow, jeff toobin from "the new yorker" is going to come for a great discussion of whether constitution is broken. in the spring, we had better leaders springvale. i'm so excited about the dizzying ar

i am jeffrey rosen the president of this wonderful institution.the national constitution center is the only institution in america charted by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis and as part of this wonderful mandate we have three goals with the museum of we the people and not covert displaying a rare copy of the bill of rights. we are center for civic education in america's town hall the one place that summons all sides of the constitutional debates that rapid american society and allow citizens to make up their own minds. in the past weeks in the coming months we have had such a remarkable and exciting variety of town hall programs. just last week we had a debate between alan dershowitz and others about whether the president has the constitutional power to target and kill american citizens of broad and the vote initially was no but after rousing speech by dershowitz the audience changes its mind to yes. tomorrow the great discussion on whether our constitution is broken and in the spring we are h

speakers include author david horowitz, jeffrey lord and mike rosen. this event was part of an annual retreat of osha program after the rockies which provides economic and political leadership training. from colorado springs this is about one hour and a half. >> let me just kind of set the stage for where we want the discussion to go and where we hope it goes. as we know, as talking weather comes to management of a project or an enterprise or a political campaign we start with vision and we move to strategies and projects and tactics. some would say that when it comes to those involved in the center right, conservative end of the political spectrum, that we might share similar vision but when it comes to the very next day, the project, such a project in fact, that's where we go in multiple directions. i want to start by telling a personal story what i've seen this first hand and been a part of the problem perhaps depend on one point of you and the points of view will be represented and water. of him and by the collar state senator, and i'm of the unite

jeffrey now works as a journalist to be material to the weekly standard, the american spectator, national review online, the "wall street journal," washington times, many more. mike rosen, one of denver's most listened to radio talk shows now in his 28 year on a 50 caylee writing and editorial page column for the denver post and has been a frequent commentator on local and national tv. mike is a frequent visitor, at least and not many years that i can remember. so let's go ahead and get started. you want to go ahead and take center stage? [applause] >> so i am starting to think that politicians only care about one thing. you know what i'm talking about, right? and short, the sweet talk is really awesome, they send you e-mails and they send your letters and they sometimes friend you on facebook. if you are democrat it gets really cool because you might get and i am from george clooney republicans are not quite like that. we are kind of old school. we prefer a thousand points saturation tv five. barrell try to do the same thing politicians in both political parties are courting new. you know what they're up to. you try to resist it. you know that they just want one thing