how are you doing now, john? larry, i'm doing pretty well. >> larry: how did the arm get caught? >> well, i was cleaning the heating elements in my 70-year-old boiler. dropped basically a vacuum rose adapter into the boiler and really without giving it much thought stuck my arm in between a couple of these heating elements and before i knew it my arm was trapped above my elbow. >> larry: were you in a lot of pain? >> initially, no. there was a wave of panic that really prevented me from feeling any pain. in the first few minutes as i struggled to free my arm, the pain started to set in as a result of the scraping and cutting from the heating elements themselves. >> larry: where were you, melissa? >> i was in north carolina, so we do not live in the same state and -- >> larry: oh. >> yeah. we had talked monday night and had i guess a spat but nothing that anyone was hanging up on one another or anything and, you know, i didn't hear from him the next day and i thought, well, that's weird. maybe he was really bother

president john f.kennedy told3 bradlee they're replacing frankfurter with another jewish justice was too obvious and keep. nevertheless, he did so in 1962 with oldberg. jfk consulttd about his choice with both justice frankfurter and chief justice of world war in. kennedy's successor and lyndon johnson -- chief justice earl warren. lyndon johnson looked to sitting justices to affirm his choices. fortis preferred his lucrative practice in washington as well as his partisan support for his friend, lbj. johnson twisted the arms of two rereluctant men. he sent fortis to the high court as associate justice. the jewish seat remained intact. chief justice warren supported johnson's unsuccessful attempt to promote fortis to the center chair. the chief remained on the bench until the new republican president, richard nixon, named warren burger to replace them. in that position, he rivaled chief justice taft for the label most active participant in presidential selection of justices. during his first months, he

you have justinian, king john of the magna karta, and then the poll in.d not know napoleon for the law but he created a civil code which is now used in many of the european countries. it ends on the laat figure, the power of government sitting on a throne with the 10 amendments to the constitution, with an -paaerican in w -- an american a group of citizens protected by a judge, olding a book a loss. on the other side, if you have another group of citizens, and there is a warrior in front of those. the authority of the law, but you have to have the strength to back up what the law says. >> it's amazing when you walk again at how fixed in time it is. even the american flags hang perfectly still. the supreme court is a great tradition. we sometimes say that the quill pens that they give to the oral their opinions. and they're so much just -- there are some justices that right out in long hand rather than on computers. human institution. in a private room reserved for use by the justices, on your custom take place following oral arguments.. one incurred by it

john doerr, chad holliday. gentlemen, thank you both. >> lehrer: still to come on the "newshour": south africa gets ready for the world cup and the story of a platoon in story of a platoon in afghanistan but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our >> sreenivasan: wall street rebounded sharply today, on upbeat economic reports. the number of americans on long- term jobless benefits fell by the most in nearly a year. and, china announced a strong increase in exports. in response, the dow jones industrial average gained 273 points to close at 10,172. the nasdaq rose nearly 60 points to close above 2,218. the securities and exchange commission also installed new "circuit breaker" rules. they're supposed to prevent a repeat of last month's "flash crash" of 1,000 points in half some of the nation's military dead may have been misplaced or misidentified at arlington national cemetery outside washington. the u.s. army acknowledged the problem today. funerals at arlington national cemetery are m

she is replacing john paul stevens. i was in the senate when john paul stevens was nominated, nominated by a conservative republican president. it was overwhelmingly democratic senate, and he was confirmed in two and a half weeks. he made courtesy calls to a number of senators. that is not going to be the same for his successor. she has made courtesy calls. i think she has talked to practically every senator, but the questions will be significant. i am concerned with the trend becoming active in this court. we have seen a lot of long standing laws being overturned. you have basically saying men can be paid more than women. we had to rewrite the law. that was the first law president obama signed into law but we all feel women and men should get paid for the same kind of work. the turning back the award of the exxon valdez, i wonder if the supreme court would do that today after what has happened in the gulf, and the most egregious decision, citizens united, which says corporations can be involved in political campaigns,

body, in the words of john milton -- embody, in the words of john milton, "those also serve who alsoson has just returned from afghanistan. many of you still wait for your loved ones. many of you have a loved one who did not return. live now with the knowledge that you will one day be reunited with them through our heavenly father. to those who have lost a loved one in the service to our nation, i recall the famous headstone in ireland. it reads as follows, "death leaves a heartache no one can heal. love leaves a memory no one can steal." no one can steal the memory from you. i can tell you from my own personal experience, that eventually the pain and heartache you now feel will eventually, god willing, be replaced by the joyful memory of the son or daughter, husband, wife, father or mother that you loved so dearly and lost. jill and my prayer for you is that that day will come sooner rather than later, but it will come. i promise you. today is a day in which sarraute mixes with incredible pride. -- sorrow mixes with incredible pride. we mourn those who we have lost. we take great pr

but it's interesting to hear john say what he said.not learned the lesson we learned in iraq? obama learned it. petraeus helped us win the war in iraq. now we've got an opportunity to apply those same principles to afghanistan. to say a lighter footprint is going to help our operations there, that's exactly what those who said the surge couldn't work said in 2007. instead, we upped our footprint, committed to protecting the population. and we did it right. now john is right in that a time line completely undercuts that. so if the obama administration's going to main that inthis time line, then counterinsurgency is not going to work. if they're willing to be flexible on it. the one guy who can question them on that time line is petraeus. they've kicked the can down the road on that. petraeus will put his input at the end of this year. we may see that deadline pushed. if that happens, then we can create the conditions in afghanistan where an afghani government can stand up. but that will not happen with a time line. it is a much tougher

john mercurio. guest: i think the caller makes an excellent point, following up on what i was saying. the conservative wing of the party dominates in the republican primaries in california. it forced meg whitman to talk about her conservative bonafide score credentials like immigration reform. but i will make a bet, you will not be hearing a lot of the immigration reform now that we are talking about a general election against jerry brown. she needs to moderate, opening herself. meg whitman needs to open her campaign to entirely different constituency outside of that republican base. i think she faces a big challenge. look, one of the biggest seller gets during the republican primary was gov. pete wilson, who remains popular among republican loyalists but not necessarily with the electorate in california as a whole, especially among hispanics. the member his strong support for proposition 187. i think the caller is right. i think this is going to be very different campaign in california from here on

i had finished a biography on shoppers' so -- john john jean-jazques rousseau. -- jean-jacques rousseau. i wanted to keep up on my friends. i thought i would take a look at the "democracy of ammrica." i would recommend a recent book in the library of america series, which is a beautiful translation of tocqueville. i got curious about where this book came from. what did he know about america? i discovered it had been 70 years since anyone thought about the journey he took. the light bulb went off. i thought this would be an interesting subject. >> we spent a lot of time with george pearson, who wrote that book you are talking about 70 years ago. how did you approach it differently? >> his book was a classic and we all rely on that. he was a professor at yale. he had a huge row of tocqueville -- trove of tocqueville at yale. it is very dated, written in the 1930's. there have been so many wonderful historians and political scientists who ever did -- written on tocqueville since then that there is an enormous range of context that are writer today could bring that he was not able to. also,

[applause] >> all right, john! all right, john! [laughter] >> our chair of the export/import bank, helping to bring jobs here to the united states of america -- fred hochberg. [applause] our chair of the council on environmental quality, doing outstanding work each and every day -- nancy sutley. where is she? [applause] nancy is a little vertically challenged, but i see her over there. [laughter) we've got here a trailblazer for federal appointees -- we are so proud of her -- ms. roberta achtenberg is here. give roberta a big round of applause. [applause] and then i understand we've got a terrific country singer -- chely wright is in the house. [applause] in addition -- i know they had to leave because they had votes, but you guys obviously don't have just fiercer warriors on your behalf than a couple of our openly gay and lesbian members of congress -- tammy baldwin and jared polis. [applause] they are openly terrific. [laughter] they do great work. and it is also great to have so many activists and organizers from around the coun

each of the goldstaramilies and bodies in the words of john milton, -- embodied in the words of johnting. those of you that are standing and waiting are relieved and to return, as jill and i were, at the return of our son from iraq. many of you are now waiting with family members still overseas, many in harm's way, and some of you have stood and waited for a loved one that did not return. and to live now with the knowledge that you will one day be united with them with our heavenly father. to those who have lost a loved one in the service of our nation, i recall a famous headstone in ireland. the headstone reads as follows, "death leaves the heartache -- "death leaves a heartache no one can heal. love leaves a memory no one can steal." no one can steal the memory from you. i can tell you from my own personal experience tt eventually, the pain and heartache that you now feel will eventually, god willing, be replaced by the joyful memory of the son or daughte husband or wife, father or mother that you loved so dearly and lost. gergel and my joshed jill and my prayer for you -- jill and

john hill on political centralism and the role of government in our lives. we have a tufts university professor. that is on c-span 2. on this morning's "washington journal," it represented a from the center for american progress will discuss the bp oil spill. after that, a new york university press up -- professor. later, an update on a tax package that congress has been working on. "washington journal" each morning on c-span. later on c-span 2, warren buffett testifies before the financial crisis inquiry. he will talk about the reliability of credit rating agencies. live coverage begins at 8:30 eastern. attorney general are colder confirmed -- attorney-general eric holder confirmed there has been criminal activity in the oil spill. this is about 10 minutes. >> the president reiterated that the primary task is to stop the leak and help the people in the region get back on their feet and continue to their normal lives. as we have said all along, we must also ensure that anyone found responsible for the oil spill is held accountable. that means enforcing the a

john morton's job as heaa of i.c.e. is to enforce the law and secretary of homeland security janet napolitano's job is to enforce the law. because you disagree with the law means nothing. you enforce that law. you're a law enforcer. that's how our constitution is set up. that's the power invested in them. if our founding fathers had wanted them to be legislator, they woull have written it into the constitution. if the people in this country wanted them to be legislators, i can tell you what they would have done. they would have amended the constitution and handed the power to change federal law over to john morton, janet napolitano, or maybe the president of the united states. that's not who we are, that's not the way it is. . we must dwevend the rule of law. if -- we must defend the raleigh of law. if we are going to allow it to come from the american people. and from the president of the united states who taught constitutional law at the stellar university of chicago school of law to think that that's the case, that h

john marshall made it explicit in the case of marbury vs. madison. >> there is no one case that says as much to a justice about what it is like to be a justice, because marbury vs. madison is the embodiment of judicial reviee. there is no quotation in all of the history of supreme court writing that justices more prefer to repeat then the phrase which says "it is emphatically the power and the duty of the judiciary to say what the lot is." that quote from john marshall in marbury vs. madison. >> we call him "the great chief." he was really the first person who took the job seriously. he established the court's position as one of the three coequal branches of the government. i get to initiate a discussion and have some responsibility to make sure that all the issues are adequately aired. >> there is a change when a new chief justice is presenting. each chief justice has his own way, method of presiding at the conference, and the present chief justice is doing an excellent job. he has some virtues that others did not have, but that pretty much

> but see, there's the interesting thing, you mentioned john birchers.hers were the equivalent of -- >> larry: tea party. >> but back in the day, they got thrown out of the party. wiliam f. buckley said, john birchers, we don't have a place for them in the republican party. now it is the reverse, now it is the tea baggers who take over the republican party and if you don't agree with the tea bearing an rush limbaughs of the world, you get purged, for a party who talks about how the opposition resembles fascist. l >> larry: is rush a tea bagger, i haven't heard him? >> rush is the guy who said about the oil spishll, the ocea will take care of this. >> larry: you are kidding. >> no he did. that is what he said. think it is natural. oil is natural. so is mercury, you don't put it on your cheerios. >> larry: okay. what about the ruling of the court the other day throwing out the chicago law about guns? you can hold -- you can have a gun in chicago. >> well, i mean, again, the republican party some times seem these he do nothing but think of new places where

i am not attacking john mccain. i could not have more affection for him as a person. >> another detroit, michigan caller. frederick. host: doing well. go right ahead. caller: president obama is not god. the technology was not there. they did not do their homework. they did not have their safety in order. as far as holding them up and getting money, they need to stop that measure. it keeps the bp stock from dropping. i am a veteran, i support veterans. getting out of afghanistan and a war is political suicide. not only for obama, but for america in general. it makes us less safe. that is the job of the president's, to keep us safe. host: obama is not god? there is a word for that -- guest: obama is not god? there is a word for that. blasphemy. he has chosen not to fix the gulf coast to teach us a lesson. host: do you think that that is what the public expects? guest: no president has ever been worshipped by his staff and supporters to the extent of this president. ttat will hurt him in. as a separate and more general

you're on with john bresnahan. caller: yes, i think this is the most corrupt government we've had since i don't remember when. being a member of the n.r.a. we eat the deer meat we shoot and i'm also a member of the tea party. i went to the first tea party rally in little rock, arkansas. and it wasn't just white people. and there wasn't a lot of people there. but the second time i went, it grew and drew and it's continuing to grow in my small town, because people are tired of this spending. the ear marks, the pork. and it's out of control. and -- host: two points to address with what carol had to say. corruption and government are the perception of government and also would this affect the tea party movement at all? guest: corruption is part of government. there's always going to be corrupt government officials. i think something like this, what happened in this -- on kind of jockeying around -- i think will feed some people's distrust of got to the. here you have a special interest group getting an exemption carved

ralph reed, john doolittle, karl rove, dick armey, conrad burns, don young. it was all about the money. >> almost everyone on that%+ screen is gone from where they were when they either got in trouble or they were in office. a couple of them are till ttere. who did we just see and why did you start with those people? >> i started with those people because it was interesting to me to show that jack abramoff wasn't on the periphery,,that he was at a certain moment in time, his moment, the late 1990's, early 2000's, that he was at he center of washington. and so you saw a lot of people there, ralph reed, karl rove and others, and george w. bush who were right at the center of power in washington, because i think there have been a pretty concerted attempt to use abramoff in a way to be the scapegoat. not that he didn't do things wrong. he did a lot that was dead- prong. but to lay all the blame at his doorstep as if to say jack was a unique character whoooperated onnthe fringes of government, didn't have much affect on somebody. he was at the center, thht's why i

starting from my left, john payton, a longtime litigator in the civil rights field and now director and counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. there is nobody who knows more about civil-rights and the consequences of the supreme court's civil-rights decisions than he does. next, we have ronald cass, former dean of a law school, former member of the administrative conference of united states and many other public bodies. that is his expertise. congressman jerrold nadler, who i have known for many years, a democrat from the upper west side of manhattan. he is chair of the constitution subcommittee of the house judiciary committee and a very active player in constitutional issues. to my right, judge clemon, now retired chief judge of the u.s. district court of the northern district of alabama. he is now practicing law in birmingham. john hiatt -- jonathan hiatt is the executive director of the afl-cio, so there is nobody who is more aware of labor law issues. the supreme court has had quite a lot to say, for better or worse, about the state of labor laws in the united states. pamela karl

john on the democrat's line. caller: i know that we have technology that can analyze things from our space. the fact is, colin powell told the correct war on the notion that we were going to experience a mushroom cloud. why wasn't it made known in the intelligence community? guest: your question goes back to one of the most serious intelligence failures. this whole wmd fiasco, relying on this source known as " curveball." i was with the secretary when he made that announcement. he made that decision in good faith. the main debt decision based on intelligence provided to him and he believed it was true. that turned out not to be the case, and that was important -- unfortunate. host: next phone call. caller: good morning. given the hard chip that the country has gone through, most presidents focus on education which leads to intelligence. i was wondering why then it is always the first thing to go. i wonder why expectations are so high for you to get into the military. usually, the military was going to shake you u

they are usurping power authhrity. >> congressman john shimkus is a republican from illinois. we are joined also by the reporter from congress daily. >> just as a quick follow-up on the third wave proposal, since you find that so objectionable is there an alternative you support that would give the s.e.c. the regulatory certainty it needs to move forward with broadband regulation? -- that would give the fcc the regulatory certainty it needs to move forward with broadband regulation? >> i would ask where the problem is. where issthe outcry? even the three cases of individuals who claimed a problem, even in some of the national story lines, resolve their problems by going through a different isp, or is resolved between the i s p and the company. the have not made the case this is a problem. this is a political debate by major interests on the west coast that helped support the democratic party. that is why they are moving on this agenda. we have been asking -- show us where there is a problem? there is not a problem right now in this whole debate. >> who are those political inte

it can be difficult to dal with and it can be very problematic because think of it here is poor john paul said in 2006 seeing what everybody sai. they thought it was a huge bubble building and real-estate, and i was agonizing over how can i profit from the collapse in real-estate prices th i know iscoming. it's not easy to short real-estate. and the answer is well, you ago goldman sachs and say can you write me of a derivative security here? hose value will beenhanced if the real-estate markt collapses,nd can you find somebody to sell that to me? i think that this totally legitimate actiity. it may hav beenthat the realstate bubble didn't collapse and those contracts would have expired worthless, but of course theproblem is when somebody takes the other side of he bet and they desn the instrument that will be highly profitable, secure is john ulson running a hedge fund and he wants to have an instrument if the housing market collapses. you can't go out and buy that kindf thing in the marketplace very easily. and so you go to a sophistated financial boutique and sy plse design me such

john newton. john is the interpol intellectual property rights program manager. his primary concern is to build on the achievements of the interpol intellectual property crime management group. an essential part of this is the further development of an integrated global training and operational capability to facilitate and coordinate international enforcement action against transnational and organized criminals engaged in i.p. crime. this includes the fully interactive on-line investigators college. it will ensure public and private sector i.p. crime investigators to benefit from this. ladies and gentlemen, i would like to welcome mr. john newton. [applause] >> thank you. good morning, everybody. first, i would like to thank the ipr center for inviting me to be back here this morning. i'm going to talk about the role of interpol and what we do with our member countries to try to deliver a collective success with all our partners. before i go into that, it's worth seeing a bit about interpol -- saying a bit about interpol. we are based in france, which is where th

but first congressman john spratt is our guest on the 10:00 a.m. show, the chair of the house budget committee and as marty kruts inninger said a key player when it comes to the reform bill now moving through the house and the senate. >> when you go out and talk to folks, what are they asking you? >> jobs, work and the economy. no question about it. that comes ahead of everything else. continually. all parts of my district. i have 14 counties just south of charlotte, north carolina, and columbia, south carolina. stand unemployment inflate almost all 14 has been in double digits for some time now. some as high as more is than 20%ment what we're seeing in my particular district is contradictlyical unemployment laird on top of structural unemployment. the structural unemployment coming from the textile industry, furniture, other non-traditional industries. >> we're taking it on the chin on top of the contradictlyical effects and probably going to be last recovering the jobs that come with the lag are probably going to be a long lag in our particular c

some of them are very distinguished people like john quincy adams. some of them are utterly unknown. the notebooks are full of the ideas that blossomed into chapters in this book. >> you talk about this in your book -- his attitude toward andrew jackson. when did he meet with him? >> it was toward the end when he was disillusioned. most people remember that, in 1824, you have the most populist votes, but there were four candidates, not a majority. what looked like a backroom deal -- for the four years, jackson should have been president and he was not. in 1828, he was elected. most of the patricians that tocqueville met at the beginning of his trip feared jackson. they thought he won an irrelevant battle in new orleans and that was all that had gotten him the reputation. it was terribly shortsighted. jackson had charisma. he had great leadership qualities. tocqueville just did not get it. >> how long did they meet? >> half an hour, at most. it was not hard to arrange a meeting in the white house in those days. they shook hands with the president, who

tom delay, john doolittle. j.d. heyward, patrick kennedy, conrad burns. jack abramoff was so skillful at convincing a lot of indian tribes or companies to donate all kinds of money to political candidates and political parties as he saw fit. so yeah, jack abramoff was a huge rainmaker, one of the largest rainmakers in town. >> you know, there are a lot of names that popped up on there. first of all, how did you dd that? >> how did i do what? >> that whole scene with the slot machine. >> oh, well, we worked with a great design firm called big star in new york, and we had the concept, and they helped us to execute it, to actually put the photographs in, to composite it and put the shadows sooit has a -- we actually shot a real slot machine, which turned out to be more difficult to do than i thought, and then we put it all together in a post- production process. it was fun. >> i know i've said this a couple times, but it's amazing how many people in your documentary are no longer in politics, no longer in power. but some are. john doolittle was on that list.

john ashcroft entered office for the first time in 1973 when he became missouri state auditor. he followed that with two terms as missouri's attorney general, unaware of what that was preparing him for in the future he followed that with two terms as governor, i'll summarize those years in missouri by saying we we in the state of missouri created 330,000 new jobs in those eight years, balanced the budget eight years in a row. he left office with a surplus. and we had the 49th lowest tax burden per capita in the whole country. or as we like to say at the time we had the second best tax policy in missouri at the time. after that, he went to the u.s. senate in the turbulent and exciting years of the 1990's when we balanced the budget, produced surplus, did do welfare reform, criminal justice reform, regulatory reform in a broad range of areas, as well as cutting taxes a number of times. mr. ashcroft was at the cent over much after thoove activetism he became attorney general of -- in 2001, i believe in february of 2001. those of us who knew him realized that at the time he was enj

john isner and nicholas mahut were near unknowns before but record breakers now . big embraced little with whatever strength they could still summon. the final said finished 70 games to 68. a basketball score, not a tennis one. isner the winner, but a moment both will surely remember forever. >> i honestly when i... when i left the match yesterday i really thought it was a dream. i didn't think that was... t type of match was possible and so i was really expecting to wake up in all seriousness. >> reporter: it began on tuesday evening, by wednesday tea time they were five hours in and not even halfway through. standards never dropped. even if heads did occasionally. at 47 all, the scoreboard had had enough. it had to be reprogrammed. as it's a small court,less than a thousand could watch. but they stayed until late into last night when the lights and the legs began to fail. both returned refreshed for a third installment today. a contest they would take 183 games to decide. >> my coach actually believe it or not said jokingly before the tournament started that i'll

[applause] >> thank you, john. many of you who took the opportunity to enter and right questions that you would like to have him to address this evening -- several of these are representative of what is on your mind. we will pose these to him now and listen to his response. the first is this -- how do you think the vatican can engage catholic young adults outside of world youth day? how can we, as a church, less than the perception of a gap between the clergy and laity? >> first of all, bear in mind, i am not in the whirlpool. if i had a silver bullet, magical solution, i would be doing something other than my current job and probably making a great deal more money. having said that, the absence of a compelling answer has never stopped me from responding to a question. i'm happy to respond. the first part of the question, what can the vatican be doing to engage the you? let me make an observation -- i think that one of the problems we have in our kind of catholic culture these days -- which is a problem inside the

john wooden loved basketball. as a young man in martinsville, indiana, starting on his high school basketball team in 1927, wooden led his team to an indiana state high school basketball title, marking the beginning of a basketball career brimming with great appearances. and great success. in college his athletic mastery continued winning all american honors three yearsn a row as well as a spot in the basketball hall of fame. the great success on the basketball court achieved while in school set the foundation for e great athletic accomplishment he would late go on to achieve. after being offered a spot in the nba, wooden turned it down, deciding rather to teach high school english and coach high school basketball. his only break from the school setting was during world war ii when he served honorably as a lieutenant in the united stes navy. in 1948, wooden accepted an offer to teach at the university of california los angeles, ucla bruin's basketball team. in his first year with the team he led the bruins to a ne

you have the same thing here at the john glenn school, do you not?aughter] >> i wish. >> i think the important thing to start with the premise is we had this advantage of not being national political reporters. at the time, there was a common belief among the national political reporters in washington that there was it so called new nixon and that there existed this perfect,ell oiled white house machinery that was really incapable o mistakes. here was this eak-in that logic, particularly after we had found the money, we had trad some of the money to the committee for the reelection of president nixon, logic would te you this has something to do with the white house. get the conventionalelief, including among our fellow reporters, both at the "washington post" and the national staff and the town and general, there were about 2500 naonal reporterst that time -- >> manyeople called it the watergate caper. like it was kind of a joke. >> it made no sense at first. george mcgovern was going to be the democratic nominee for president. there were certain ext

at the age of 90 john paul stevens is retiring. yesterday was the final day of decisions by the supreme court. we're talking about the 5-4 ruling decision that came down yesterday. from the supreme court -- elena kagan's approach is modest. today is the day of questioning of elena kagan before the confirmation. what do you expect in terms of the questioning by members of the judiciary committee? guest: it foreshadows their line of attack. not only for the past several weeks but in the opening statements yesterday, a the my think we should look for is the republicans arguing that her lack of judicial experience would get in her way -- one of the things we should look for. that her resume as a law clerk for a more liberal lion, thurgood marshall, an official in the clinton white house, and the of the harvard law school -- all those things make her ill suited for life on the law bench. they have revealed her in the local eyes as being a good political hack. the democrats will say that she is the first potential justice a judge is a wo

john kerry is still pushing things. the buzzword is jobs. i think on monday there was something about a congressman and obama having a one-on-one that was a he said, he said situation. it was about sending all the troops to the border. i'm afraid that we are -- democrats are waiting to put all of this stuff into one huge bill while the oil is still flowing in running our shores. do you guys feel like the democrats are using the oil spill to pass whenever they want to -- whatever they want to? they are not working on the border. >> obviously i do not know anything about the dispute between senator kyl and the president on immigration. that being said, first of all, we're very far from the problem of democrats passing anything that they want to. but, to get to the part of your -- the heart of your question, i think the president made an important point that is really inarguable. the reason we have problems with oil is that we are dependent on oil -- imported oil. our dependence has gone up since the oil crisis of the 1970's. that is a fundamen

john paul stevens is a man of chicago, born and raised in hyde park. he attended the university of chicago laboratory schools. he attended the 1932 world series, which the cubs lost. [laughter] in fact, no one in this room was alive when the cubs won their last world series. [laughter] john paul stevens attended jakarta -- college in chicago, law school in chicago, practiced in chicago and served for five years, on the senate. even after he was dragged off to washington in 1975, he remained our circuit justice. this year, he became the second justice to reach the age of 90 while in active service. the other was oliver wendell holmes. [applause] his predecessors in his seat on the supreme court were louis brandeis and william o. douglas. for 16 years, he has been a senior associate justice. you may have read about him during the last few weeks. [laughter] i give you, justice stevens. [applause] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much. fellow judges, friends, members of the seventh circuit breakebrd friends again, i am going to play my

. >> after the, reaction to the firing from senate armed services committee leaders, john mccain andarl levin. and later, defense secretary greagates and admiral mullen exn why they agree with the decision to replace general mcchrystal. >> of course, the lottery is prescribed by law. if demand are basis supply you have to do a lottery. >> i think this is the civil rights issue of today and it is not just about race. it is about class. >> tonight, the market -- the lottery producer madeleine sackler on the family that she hosted for the lottery, and the anti-charter schools and demand. >> mr. chairman, we are pleased to have you here of the g-20 leaders are gathering for the same debate as we are having on capitol hill, which is, what is a hybrid of a love spending -- what is the bright club level of spending in a weak economy. walter, let's start with you. >> house democrats said this week that they are not going to propose a traditional budget resolution. >> we're going to propose a budget resolution, chiefly enter merrilee for, discretionary spending. -- chiefly and primarily for d

john said uh-huh, with all this attitude. >> john manzari remembers it differently. >> i didn't meansay it with attitude. here's what happened, he, at the end of the class, he was talking to us and everything, and he was just like, "can you tap?" and i was like, "yes, i can tap." but he did not believe me. he just kept asking me, "are you sure you can tap? i was like, "yes, i can tap." finally, the fifth time, i was like, "yes, i can tap upon. >> oh, he could. >> brown: and, yes, 17-year-old expwraun 15-year-old leo can tap. >> they came and they tapped for me and i was blown away. i looked up, i saw my brother, and he's looking, "i told you! i told you, jude find them." and i did. and they sing. they are monumental, i said. they're fabulous. >> brown: what do they have? what does a good tap danceer have to have? >> first of all, they have great feet. you have to have that. they dance like musician, like a drummer and know all the syncopations and make stuff up. they're innovative and they're improvisational, and that's what my brother was. and so they could do anything that i wanted

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in each of those decisions in every one, justice john paul stevens led the dissent. now, justice stevens is noo fir brand liberal. he was appointed to the seventh circuit by richard nixon. he was elevated to the supreme court by gerald ford. by all accounts, he was considered a moderate. and yet, he didn't hesitate to tell corporations that they aren't a part of we the people by whom and for whom our constitution was established. and he didn't flinch when he told the president that he executives is bound to comply with the rule of law. general kagan, you've got big, big shoes to fill. but before i turn it over to you, i want to talk a bit more about one of the decisions i mentioned. i want to talk more about citizens united. now, you've heard a lot about this decision already today. but il want to come at it from a slightly different angle. there is no doubt that the roberts court's disregard for a century of federal law, the decades of supreme court's own rulings is wrong and shocking. it's torn a gaping hole in our election laws. of course, i'm worried about how ri

as john deere, caterpillar come at aay of those firms, ford, ibm, you name it. every company hedges of their expossre. the airlines had that on a lot of your international's have currency hedges. i do not see why you need to have a gatekeeper. that is what we have done in this bill. we fix things that were not problems. we have had company after company after company that as come to us. this has led the lobbbing people to come to us and say these will cost us jobs. they said it will cost us 400 jobs in omaha alone. we do not know why. we have been doing this safely. now, there needs to be disclosure. there needs to be transparency. a lot of the need to be traded. your ther question was about banks. should they be able to do this? they should nottbe with to speculate on their own accounts. they should not be able to use the people's monee. they hould not go to the discount window. if you have a federally insured bank with deposits are being guaranteed by the insurance fund, it is a valid thing to say, maybe there ought to be restrictions on that. in fact, the fed

kagan, whether you'd be more like john roberts and more like ruth bader ginsburg. so i think we need to know a little bit more what we can expect of you as a judge. >> reporter: rhode island democrat sheldon whitehouse tried to get at that point, asking about high-profile split decisions, driven by conservative justices. >> i want to ask you what you think about all these five to four decisions and what effort the court should make to return to a collegial environment that the court, where even these highly contentious decisions, like "brown versus board of education" and "roe versus wade" are driven either by unanimous or massive majorities of the court rather than the slenderest possible majority and to try to reach across the partisan divide on the court so it's not just republican appointees acting together. >> senator whitehouse, it's a hard question you pose, because on the... on the one hand, every judge, every justice has to do what he or she thinks is right on the law. you wouldn't want the judicial process to become in any way a bargaining process or a lo

i love john stuart. he is a funny guy, but i have not watched it. >> [unintelligible] >> the president is the president 24 hours a day. i o not think he would suggest we stop doing intelligence briefings on things like afghanistan and pakistan because of what is going on in the gulf. just like what is going on in afghanistan and pakistan did not limit our response to the gulf. on any given day, the president is working on -- even on the quiet days, and there have not been many. even on a quiet day, the president is working on a whole host of issues. the notion that this has somehow been curtailed, we seem to be well on track to get a new supreme court justice before august. we signed the financial reform bill before the july recess. we urged and fraud for sanctions against iran. not a lot of people -- and fought for sanctions against iran. not a lot of people thought that would happen. i appreciate that you have one story per day, but we do not just necessarily deal with one subject per day. >> [inaudibl

thanks. >> hello, i am john boehner.in these tough economic times, american families have done their level best to stay afloat, spending less and working more, of trying to map out a financially sound future. they deserve the same degree of discipline and vigilance from their government. instead of bringing a fiscal standard to promise -- to congress like the promise, president obama has spent taxpayer dollars with reckless abandon comer fizzing to make tough choices and pushing the burden on to future generations. -- with reckless abandon, forcing them to make tough choices. unemployment is still close to 10%. the private sector is at a near+ standstill. small businesses are still gasping for air. i can tell you that the new health care law, with its burdensome mandate and tax increases, is already stalling the engines of our economy. a new report from the treasury department shows that our fiscal situation is much worse than we thought. our record national debt, which tops 15 trillion dollars, is on pace to exceed the

host: how would you answer that question, john? caller: the united states, the people do not own anything anymore. corporations, aig, all of it. who owns it? guest: an interesting question. certainly in the 1970's in iran this was the overwhelming popular narrative. the united states was an the backs of the third world. why the iranian revolution went in the direction that it did, there was an overwhelming torrent of anti-imperialism. three decades later after being poverned by a government that shares your opinion, the younger generation of iranians have recognized that today's world is not the world anti-imperialism -pwith a simple policy that opposes the united states. it does not create jobs or economic dignity. i think the overwhelming undercurrent today is one of globalization and partnership. not only with the united states, but also with the arab world and having a foreign policy that is not a zero sum game. it tries to have positive relations and improve the state of the economy. host: turkey is in the neighborhood of iran