andy barr and john o'connor are with us. andy barr, give us the dimensions of the new luck surely living scandal with sanford. >> well, first of all, a little bit of the backstory here, you remember when this first came out, there was questions about other trips, whether he used state-funded money, initially his staff returned the money he used to travel to argentina, but then a lot of reporters here went back through the records and found that he was going on a lot of trips using a lot of state money to provide business class, first-class, to fly all over the country, obviously, not all to meet his mistress there in argentina, but certainly brings into question the fiscal credentials he had, which is the one thing that really brought him from being a member of congress to really one of the people on the brink of being a leader of the party. >> john o'connor, christians are very good and practiced at forgiving sin, how about republicans forgiving lavish spending? >> it seems to be a little less forgiving there, especially in

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and this looks like a court led by john roberts with justice sam alito taking sandra day o'connor's place, a clear view of the law and the role of the court in society and that's why you're seeing some of these decisions that we saw this term really pulling the court out of some of these disputes. the best case for that, paul, was a big dna case, an inmate up in alaska convicted of rape argued that he should have a constitutional right to his genetic material after he was convict today test his dna and he confessed to the crime, but he want today challenge it, the justices led by john roberts, a beautiful example of conservative jurisprudence, said this is not an issue for the court, the legislators are handling this, most of the states would allow this kind of access, we're not going to be policy makers, and that's the direction i think that the court is headed in. >> an in a couple of other instances, the herring case where they didn't turn it back, they paired it down throw out the evidence if the police err in the way they gather the efforts. and the voting case, didn't with an 8-1 de

john roberts who prepped sandra day o'connor back at a 26-year-old said the approach was to avoid givingpecific responses to any direct questions on legal issues likely to come before the court. >> since it's the supreme court, every legal issue in the world may come before the court. so say nothing. you know, arlen specter who used to be chairman of the committee liked to say that supreme court nominees say as little as possible in order to get confirmed. it's another way of saying the same thing. the judges want to stay out of trouble. they want to avoid creating new controversies. so, unfortunately, in my view, they really don't engage over the big issues that we know they have feelings about, but they dismiss as possibly coming before the court. >> in fact in 1993, ruth bader ginsburg when she was being confirmed actually said, talking about -- i guess they were trying to figure out how she would rule from the bench. no hints, no forecasts, no previews. she refused to answer questions in vast areas. john roberts did the same thing a couple of years back. what sense can congress get a

o'connor couldn't have meant that if judges reached different conclusions, legal conclusions that one of them wasn't wise. that couldn't have been her meaning, because reasonable judges disagree. >> all right, john king. you know, it's a really sensitive issue and she's dealing with it. >> she's trying to deal with it and step back saying i was in an academic environment and try to inspire young people and i took a little liberty and tried rhetorical arguments and maybe i could have said it better but no, no, no i didn't mean because i'm a woman or latina i could have made a better decision than someone else. the conservative blogs are saying, wait a minute, what you're saying now is not what you said then. if you are the white house, you're extremely happy right now. "a," senator leahy first preemptively raised these issues to give a chance. senator sessions tried to get her to say of course being a woman, of course being a hispanic helps me in rulings and she said, no. i am aware of it and i try to put my biases aside and they are extremely happy at the white house after round one and the next round with senator hatch is critical because he's a former chairman of the committee and not as parti

john wallinz, thank you so much. [applause] >> in a few moments, supreme court justice stephen breyer and former justice sandra day o'connortalk about their life on the court. then jonah goldberg of the national review online discusses the future of the republican party. and after that, a look at iran's nuclear program. >> during this holiday weekend, notable americans on c-span. stories from inside the white house. domestic policy advisors on their president, from richard nixon to george w. bush. honoring president ronald reagan. ken burns on his career and upcoming series on america's national parks. a tribute to the late writer john updike, two-time winner of the pulitzer prize. and a reunion of the apollo astronauts and more books and authors on c-span2 on "book tv" including historian john furling taking your calls on our first president live from george washington's mount vernon estate. sunday on "in depth." and p.j. o'roarke, his passion for cars and america's need to drive like crazy. also nobel peace prize recipient juan gare maathai on the challenges facing africa. find out on c-span.org. >> president obama leave