i also wanted obviously what i would call signature decisions of the roberts court under john roberts, jr.. then obviously i wanted a good back story but one seattle mother who called herself a mama bear before sarah palin point* the term and and to get her daughter into the high school in seattle and when she found favor using race as one of the number of tiebreakers tiebreakers, she filed a lawsuit to challenge it going all the way to the supreme court. i also found along the way and i did not start with this in mind that these four cases had nothing else in common, they had very smart conservative or libertarian lawyers behind them and in some cases agenda cases. issues the lawyers or organizations backing them wanted to get to the supreme court for a final decision and had their eye on the increasingly conservative or sympathetic supreme court that is why i chose those cases to be a book that is a good read not heavily legal legal, that is not what i wanted to right. >> host: john roberts has been chief justice seven years and william rehnquist was chief 17 years? we are early in

we have talked about what that means in terms of john roberts himself. >> host: it is a backtrack of these four cases parents involved coming integration

john benjamin roberts th second. one-on-o is ought to you is womy month. why don't we have a woman president in the unite states? why haven't we had one? >> i think the answer to that is simply that american women may not be ready for it. a majority of the voters ar fee may president we would probably have one. i'm being a little bit flip. the thuth is we are not a and women have not really focused on politics unti the last couple of decades so we haven't deloped a team that can move up to theprey >> what do you make of the women occupy seats in the united states congress? compared to the rest of the pretty much near the bottom. something like number 6 around the world in terms of that women are not terribly for office when that changes, we'l >> you written a fascinating book here and it's hard to >> thank you >> i managed to put it down. because i wanted to take some notes. your central proposition o the book is that a lot of americans, perhaps most americans, by far most, regard first ladies as kind of glitzy devoted to charitable undertakings. involved

current supreme court is the most corporate friendly in decades in a series of decisions since john roberts was confirmed as chief justice in two thousand and five the court has picked apart at the park at the power of class action lawsuits and a lot of corporations unfettered access to our electoral process a similar study conducted by the constitutionality accountability center found that the chamber of commerce one of the biggest corporate lobbying groups in the country has a startling sixty nine percent winning percentage during the eight years of the roberts court are unelected constitutional monarchs are once again the defenders of the corporate elite how did this happen and what can we do to change it i'm joined now by david cobb national spokesperson for move to amend and stephen spaulding staff counsel with common cause and david stephen we're glad to see both of you here thank you for joining us stephen can you explain to us some of the roberts court smoke in the most pro-business decisions and you know absolutely i mean i think we've seen a steady drumbeat under the roberts court

john roberts is live in moore. out this teacher, john. >> reporter: so many remarkable stories. we met with the cobb family who went through an incredible ordeal at buyerwood elementary. donna cobb is a pre-k teacher and her three daughters are students. she and her husband went to pick them up but when she got there she couldn't leave the others behind so she stayed there and she was in a back classroom when the tornado hit. the walls collapsed on top of them. her husband got free and saw his wife and daughter were trapped under rubble. he mustered the strength to lift the wall. his wife was crying she was suffocating and he pulled them out. donna said it was the most frightening thing she's ever gone through. >> it's unexplainable. i thought i was never going to see my family. we're processing it a little bit every day and we tease the girls when they fight about silly things. you know, we almost died. stop fighting. >> life seems a little bit sweet. donna learned a pre-k student at home died when a tornado hit he

john roberts with this here live tonight in moore, john?w, we have heard many times over the past couple of days shep, power of many atomic bombs and behind me is a clear example of this. this was the oklahoma heart institute. you can see concrete gerders on top of this building. they weren't part of that structure. those were blown from the tornado 300 yards from the top of that hospital. take a look at these pictures of the rubble. there are about 10 elderly patients inside at the time. when they heard the warnings that the tornado was coming and they started to feel the vibration. they ducked down under desks. when the winds blew out the walls and those gerders came down and collapsed the roof. the whole heart institute collapsed like it was a pan pancake. almost like hit by earthquake. sandy jones is the clinic director there. >> i had this much room. they crawled out. they were further down than i was. pinned up against the wall with one of those bring pillars. they crawled out from under the table i counted them as they came out. ever

that includes john roberts, mr. chief justice. >> there was a long good article in "the new york times" this past weekend. >> friend of the corporation which lays it out and has a lists of different cases and everything, you know, proving your point, i am sure, built on, in large part, your report. i just want to come back to this number. so, they win 6 -- the chamber wins 69% of the cases that they get involved in. the conservatives vote with them 82% of the time? is that >>. >> 82% of the time in the 5 to 4 or 5 to 3 decisions where it's really on the niceknife's edge. >> you are sure, if you are big business that you are going to get scalia's vote thomas's vote, alito's vote roberts' vote. >> yes. >> and probably anthony kennedy? >> and i would even add -- >> right. not literally every case but you have a pretty darn good chance of getting them. >> yeah. >>ists going to say, look at and consider with what tom was saying, consider the fact that anthony scalia was sitting next to bill o'reilly where he regularly go

i think john roberts is a corporatist. think he is there to rule on a whole lot of tax an corporate issues. i think that's why he was put in. i think maybe he does care, he doesn't care. i don't think he wants to go down in history as anybody who has taken away rights that have been earned from people. he's not that naive. he would not want that to be his legacy. >> what does it say about mid western states like iowa an minnesota really have led on this issue. will the rest of the country and other states catch on. >> well, you know we're already seeing that america is evolve on the issue. but, you know, just in the last couple of weeks we saw rhode island and delaware join the ranks and have the freedom to mary. we're seeing movement in illinois, nevada and this week we saw poles toward a majority in michigan, arizona. the country is really having the conversation. let's not minimalize it's really personal experience and personal stories and the fact that people are talking about the issues that is really leading to the c

we're going to get to our colleague, john roberts, who has been in moore for much of the day and has been out surveying the damage as well. he'll talk to residents about how in the world they're going to clean this upment we're waiting for updates from authorities as well. our crews are spanned out across the great state of oklahoma, and if one of my colleagues from the northeast said this afternoon, boomer sooner. followed by, you'll never hear me say that again. this is fox news, continuing coverage. [ musick ] i knew there were a lot of tech jobs available out there. i knew devry university would give me the skills that i needed to make one of those tech jobs mine. we teach cutting-edge engineering technology, computer information systems, networking and communications management -- the things that our students need to know in the world today. our country needs more college grads to help fill all the open technology jobs. to help meet that need, here at devry university, we're offering $4 million dollars in tech scholarships for qualified new students. learn more at devry.edu. >>

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the three best john roberts, paul clement and mahoney. in terms of standing up there presenting from the private bar. the government has some unbelievable lawyers. there are two deputies solicitor generals, michael who does the criminal justice for the government and blows you away. you just learn so much from being around them. >> is there more interruptions today than there was 20 years ago? >> i can't even measure it. every single justice joined the supreme court ask more questions than the one for them for decades now. it's reached sustainable proportions. the justices all recognize that but don't have a way. political science call it collective action problem. they can't agree on way of dialing it back. justice thomas spoken it's one of the reasons it doesn't ask questions. our job is to go up there and answer their questions as best we can. but they -- when you're getting asked four questions a minute, it's hard to tell something coherent. >> did hear you say, something i was listening to that the rnc impacted the way the court rele

john roberts, thanks. great to have you on the ground there in moore. thank you, john. here is martha. martha: think of the children in all of these stories. here is another picture that captures this tragedy. look at this picture. it is incredible. this woman carry as child through a field near where the school collapsed. take a look at the background. it looks like a war zone. listen to the woman who has been helping with the rescue effort. >> a lot of people are just very sad. i mean, as you can imagine having to pull anybody deceased out whether it be children or adults it is just going to be overwhelming for a person. so, you know, at this point when it went from a search and rescue to search and recovery the mood over there has definitely changed. martha: it is believed that the numbers will go higher as we go throughout the morning here. the oklahoma medical examiner's office has said the death toll is expected to rise. it could go up towards 91. you look at the anguish on these people's faces, bill, it is too much to bear this morning. so much of our focus, righ

he has since gone to shelters and gotten a new one but john roberts is at plaza towers elementary tonightwas earlier today and is he live here in moore tonight. john, what's the latest on that school. do we know? >> there is a small piece of good news, shep. if there is any good news in this disaster. is the fact that for about 17 or 18 hours, it was believed as many as two dozen children have been trapped in parish in addition to the seven you mentioned elementary school it appears now that was simply the fog of confusion following the initial strike of the tornado. rescue workers went through a elementary school a number of times today and did not find any more victims. the death toll holding steady now at 24. it still could rise but at least we believe now 24 additional children did not die. we're also learning a little more about what happened inside that school in briar wood elementary from an a.p. story that came out just a little while ago. as the storm warnings went out, those tornado warnings all the children were taken out of their classrooms at plaza tower, sent to the calf fea

it's not nine scorpions in the bottle that we know historically >> brown: john roberts came as a young. he could be there for a long time. a number of young justices now. this is very much a work in progress, right? i mean, in the long term but even in the short term as of next week we'll have some new decisions. >> that's right. and that's another point in the book that by historical standards this is a young court and also by the age of at least four of the justices and the change -- the turnover that's been on the court in just five years they had four new justices. ful that the justices also talk about in book how that affects their own jurisprudence and also their interpersonal relationship. >> brown: "marcia coil, as always, thank you. >> thank you, jeff. >> brown: we'll continue this conversation online. please join us there later and you can read excerpts from marcia's book and coverage of this session's major cases. all that on our supreme court page. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: a massive immigration reform plan survived mostly intact as a senate com

nominees creating a backlog in our courts and leaving important agencies about leadership even john roberts is complaining about it here's the real abuse of the tax code loopholes and subsidies and turn the i.r.s. into a welfare program for the richest one percent of americans or the rest of us footing the bill if you want hear anything about that kind of stuff from republicans or the media because all the g.o.p. cares about is scoring points against the administration and all the media cares about is sensationalizing washington politics course republicans are enabled by an inept democratic leadership that reacts to narratives instead of creating them at the point stands there are a number of serious problems facing this country right now all of them caused by conservative policies and thirty three years of reaganomics the republican obsession with winning the talking point war is keeping them off the front pages for more on this let's turn things over to tonight's big picture politics. joining me for tonight's big picture politics panel are patrick hedger policy analyst of freedom works an

. >> and joining us now from moore, oklahoma, fox news correspondent john roberts. john, have you been covering the story all day. what has made the deepest impression on you? >> bill, i think it was what you just heard right there. and it was the deaths of those nine children. seven of them at an elementary school that is just a few blocks over from where i am standing, the plaza towers elementary school. you know, any loss of life, in a tragedy like this is heart-breaking. but when it is children, and when those children are in school, it's particularly heart breaking. you send your child off to school in the morning and i talked with governor fallon about this just a few minutes ago. you send your child off to school in the morning, you think that it's going to be a safe place. and then by the afternoon, by 3:00 in the afternoon, that safe place that you thought you were sending your child to is suddenly rent asunder like pancake and seven children have died. just to add a little bit to the reporting. governor fallon and i were speaking about this idea of whether

eighty two federal bacon's judicial positions and i mean this is become a really serious problem john roberts wrote a letter year and a half ago saying to the republicans basically stop blocking every nomination the president obama has the big one of course is the first circuit court the first circuit court of appeals based here in washington d.c. is the one that is like those stepping off point to to the supreme court a typically and b. is where cases like e.p.a. case and basically any of the federal agencies are decided there and right now you've got four republican appointees and three democratic appointees and three empty seats and so the republicans are running the first circuit court and so they keep knocking down labor laws they could knock down environmental laws president obama had an appointee for that court for two years the guy finally withdrew about what three four weeks ago i mean kay what are what what is the deal here at what point do the republicans back down or back down is maybe even the wrong phrase at what point do they do what the constitution asks them to do and advise

senior national correspondent john roberts is live in moore, oklahoma. , john. >> good afternoon, to you, greg. two of those funerals today. that's the toughest part of this tragedy is the young children, the school students who thought they were in a safe place and turned out they weren't in a safe place. particularly when you think if that tornado had it hit today the schools would have been empty because the school officially ended yesterday. the tornado got them just a few days before that we pentagon some time at briar wood elementary school. that was a school from which everyone survived. we found teachers and some students going through the school, picking out what they could, trying to salvage whatever was meaningful to them before the school was demolished that should probably begin next week. we also met a remarkable family. la donna was a prek teacher at briar wood. she and her husband and three daughters were in that school when the tornado hit she and her husband and one daughter were trapped when a wall collapsed. her daughter jordan just 9

. >> john: for more, i'm joined by robert greenwald the latest, his "war on whistle blowers:: free press and the national security state" "p" thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> john: naming james rosen a coconspirator part of what you would call a war on whistle blowers. >> i don't think there is any doubt about it. we've been working on this film for nine months, but the timing of it could not be more relevant but also more troubling. from fox news and ap in between this is a systemic effort to silence critics to stop whistle blowers, and most dangerously as you just heard go after the press. try to get people afraid of talking, afraid of cooperating and one thing we know for sure, the only time we find about about the military complex is when there is an investigation by a report or whistle plower. >> john: i give you a lot of credit you've been consistent on this issue regardless of who is in the oval office, can you explain what would be the difference between a reporter getting a big scoop and an actual whistle blower? >> well, an actual national whistle blower is somebod

jon: our john roberts is live in moore, oklahoma with the latest. john. >> reporter: ro jon, good morning to you. you know, not only was this a very, very large storm but it moved so slowly through the oklahoma city area and that's why the damage that we see is even greater than you would expect from a storm that was as big as this one. take a look behind me, i'll step out of the way here, this is the moore medical center, it's a fairly large regional hospital in the area. the entire third floor of this building has been sheared off, and all throughout the parking lot you see cars piled on top of each other, like a child took them and put them there. earlier today and late last night there were cranes here that were actually plucking cars out from inside the hospital where the tornado had thrown them. there were a small number of people in this facility last night. we understand that all of them got out without any kind of serious injury, but the story else where is different. we've got, by the way, lightning, another big storm coming in, however, co

if the supreme court courtovers turn doma, the defense of marriage act you could see them well john robertst we have to do is keep pushing and keep fighting for the fullest most inclusive immigration bill we can find. >> michael: and i'm going to ask you about that directly. you as an activist are pushing to have it become a more woman-friendly bill. tell us about that, and tell us--are women sort of cast aside in the immigration discussion here. >> the gang of eight eight men. automatically i look at that is a sense of suspicion and deep miss trust. the women are the majority of our immigrants and women are more likely to benefit from family unification policies and to go to the heritage report they didn't presume that immigrants would come over and not be productive in business, and that's includes immigrant women. >> michael: and they probably think they're all going to be criminals, the way they look at things. the perception of what an immigrant was to people who ran the heritage organization, it's just lost on them. you wrote a column called "the future of white people," and how the m

john roberts is there with more. john?john: that would be an interesting piece of news because we have been waiting for hours now for word about the reports that 24 children were trapped in the plaza towers elementary school, which is just a little bit less than half mile from where we are, a school built in 1966 that just came completely apart and pancaked in the storm. i have been through that neighborhood where that school was. earlier today. they had kicked the media out. we were all there very early this morning and then they kicked us out as the went through the final sketch rescue operations. they were meticulously going through an enormous pile of rubble with a train, -- with a crane, so it's unclear with this piece of news when the would she make of the records that came our yesterday they were looking for some 24 children, all of them believed to he perished in the school. we do know that seven children for sure died in plaza towers. when somehow they drowned. up clear whether they were in the basement, a burst w

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john roberts has more. >> in the middle of our interview, former army specialist goes into a seizure.trip to the e.r. >> some was saying i was malinger that i wasn't sick. that my injuries weren't there. >> he was blown across the highway in afghanistan by an i.d.e.. rumgt brain injury left him depressed and unable to focus or perform his duties. when superiors refused to fast track medical discharge. he went awol. that is when they gave him a choice, prosecution or so-called chapter 10 voluntary exit. >> they were saying, chapter 10, you lose not only school benefits but you lose medical benefits, as well. v.a. won't even look at you. >> a similar story for sergeant gerald jenson, he had half his face blown off and was that coma and volunteered for mountain top duty in afghanistan where he was wounded again. back in fort carson, he had trouble keeping up. they accused him of slacking and forced to him scrub toilets. when he tested positive for amphetamines, the army tried to kick him out. >> they said i wasn't worthy of wearing a uniform and shouldn't have been allowed to wear a unif

she has more cajones than john roberts. >> would have been rain on the leg analogy.>> in a moment, the factor tip of the day. what to do if you have a bad mom. we'll have the tip, after these >> bill: tip of the day. what to do if you have a bad mother, in a moment. first the mail. amy henderson ormond beach, florida. what can we do? nothing. can't force folks to be responsible but you can hang around with those who are. a small tid bit from my new bookkeep about pithy, avoid the morons. >> i went during your interview with sean smith's mother. we were deeply disturbed when pat smith reveald that president obama and hillary clinton told her three days after the attack it was caused bay video. truly appalling. shame on you bill. also make excuses for president bush but put blame on president obama. imnot fair. >> i'm not aware of any bush excuses. bill as a survivor of a dead napping i can tell you what i -- kidnapping while being held for a month i felt fear. i could not feet my abuser. please be gentle with the cleveland story for us women who love you and have live

the governor has put it on hold and that could cost billions to john roberts. >> it's another volleythe battle between supporters and a knowns of shale gas drilling and analysis looked at the economic boom from fracking in pennsylvania and projected that to murk state where governor cuomo declared a moratorium on drilling. over the last four years cash-strapped new york state with the highest taxes in the land may have missed out on $8 billion in income and revenue. the city of el mire remark current income, less than $36,000 a year. if fracking were allowed, according to the study, that income would rise to $39,540. an increase of $3,500 a year per person. diana roth is the studies author. >> a win-win for new york state, win for the residents, a win for the tax picture. it would be a win for new york's fiscal picture, which would improve. >> the manhattan institute points to pennsylvania towns that are flourishing from natural gas exploration while similar towns in new york state languish. governor cuomo has releasedly delayed a decision whether to lift the moratorium, widely specu

senior national correspondent john roberts tells the story of those who survived this incredible storm those who didn't. hello, john. >> reporter: and amid the devastation here tonight, bret, one little piece of good news. for about 18 hours beginning last evening, it was believed that as many as 24 children were trapped and had perished in the plaza towers elementary school, but moore police department confirmed with me just a short time ago that search and rescue teams have been through that school a number of times, and they believe that other than the initial seven children who were found to have perished in that school, there are no other victims. they've gone through this a number of times. they're very certain that everyone has now been accounted for, so that would at least be some good news, that an additional 24 children did not perish during this tornado. that would leave steady for the moment, at least, the total death toll at 24. across this entire region, though, many thousands of people narrowly escaped death, one of them, shannon wilson, a woman i talked to who lives jus

and john roberts is on the ground in moore, oklahoma. we just lost his satellite feed because of bad weather. is he back up now so we want to go to him while we can jon? -- john? >> the rain is beginning to come down here. it's going to hamper the efforts of the search and rescue teams as they continue to go through the buildings throughout this entire area where that tornado cut such a deadly path yesterday. i'm in front of the moore medical center. let me step out of the shot so you can take a look. it was a three story structure. today it's a two story structure when the top floor was completely ripped off o. thankfully only a handful of people inside at the time. we understand that all of them escaped without serious injury. just a short time ago, a search and rescue team with cadaver dogs made one last sweep through this medical center where they came out they didn't seem to have found anything. so that's good news all around. now, you mentioned war zone, megyn, in describing this. this area that we're in right now definitely looks l

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from washington, d.c., here's john roberts. >>> it was in the u.s. capitol behind me that the age of instantaneous electronic communication arguably began. samuel morris officially opened his first telegraph line between here and baltimore in 1844. the first message he transmitted? four words from the old testament. what hath god wrought? today we might wonder what hath samuel morris brought? practically all of us generate with our computers, phones, and devices a continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored who knows where, analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. what does it all mean for the rest of us? our investigation unfolds as a series of stories that would have seemed unconnected a few years ago. a mysterious new spy center rising in the utah desert. an unusual sixth grade class in massachusetts. an unprecedented get out of vote effort here in washington. in today's world, they all tie together. we begin with a visitor to my home in atlanta. >>> hey frank, john. >> nice to meet you. >> great to meet you,

chief justice john roberts' seat, which has been empty since he moved to the supreme court in 2005. getting judges nominated to the d.c. court of appeals is pivotal for the president, mainly because the d.c. court of appeals is very, very important. it's widely considered the second most important court in the nation after the supreme court because it's where laws passed by congress are challenged and senate republicans realize how important it is. it's been a huge battle for them to pack that court and so much so, in fact, they are looking to hold on to the court's current conservative tilt by -- get this -- introducing legislation to reduce the number of judges on the d.c. circuit. conveniently by the same number of vacancies left on the court. >> the legislation is very straightforward. it would add a seat to the second and the 11th circuit. at the same time, it would reduce the number of authorized judgeships for the d.c. circuit from 11-8. >> but in the face of republicans, fight back with maximalism of its own. comes in tandem with increasing noise being made by majority leade

john roberts is live it the briar wood elementary. the students and their teachers. john? >> shep, good evening to you. this is the neighborhood immediately across the street from briar wood school. this used to be all of the homes where the students who went to that school used to live. we will take you inside that school with a member of the urban search and rescue team in just a second and show what you it looks like inside. first of all, the story of a briar road elementary school teacher and the terrifying ordeal that she and her entire family went through inside that school. at briar elementary teachers salvaged what think could before the school is demolished. >> i honestly didn't think we were going to make it. cobb and three children barely escaped with their lives. their thoughts are with those at the other school homes where one of her students didn't make it. i feel so bad for those families cafnted even imagine if instead of hugging my babies i was planning their funerals. >> this is some of the classrooms. >> this it is

00, marcia pull oil gives a synopsis of the supreme court under the direction of chief justice john roberts. at 10:00 eastern, olympia snowe joins us to talk about her book fighting for common ground:how we can fix the stalemate in congress. we conclude the prime-time programming at 11:00 eastern with donald rumsfeld providing the lessons he learned over the course of his career. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> representative greg walden, what is on your summer reading list? >> i just finished a victory lap. i do a little bit on the side. that tells a lot about digital data and how the world of campaigns has changed. i am hoping to get to the biography on jefferson which i have on my ipod and a new one on teddy roosevelt. i am a big fan of the roosevelt and the reform music and his energy and styling and deals mainly with his time in south america so it should be interesting. >> let us know what you are reading this summer, tweet us at booktv, posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> there tends to be a denigration of the

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john roberts toured what's left of briar wood elementary and tomorrow he will tell us the story of theacher who got hurt while saving the students' lives. there is breaking news now on fox news channel. we have a verdict in the case of the murder jodi arias. the jury has now decided whether jody -- will recommend that jodi arias lives or dies. there has been a lot going on in that courtroom today. at one point as you know the jurors said we can't come up with a decision. the judge sent them back. we knew that they were convening people in the courtroom now. relatives of the victim have been there and many of the court watchers as well. everyone is in the courtroom now and there is a verdict. so our live coverage begins now of the jodi arias verdict. as you know. we have had very little opportunity to hear specifics this afternoon. but we now know that the verdict is in. we don't yet know what it is. but we're waiting to find out what that verdict is and, of course, live coverage. trace gallagher is with us from los angeles. trace, the thinking was that if they didn't get a verdict toda

since president obama nominated john roberts, the supreme court has weighed into just about every issueicans. obamacare, gun rights, terrorism, abortion, immigration, campaign spending, voting rights, re, gender discrimination, capital punishment, school integration, global warming, animal cruelty, video game regulation and miranda warnings. >> that felt like master piece theater. >> our next guest wrote about four of the most important controversies before the court in her new book, the roberts court. the struggle for the constitution. in the guest spot today, an award winning journalist for the national journal, how are you? >> i'm just fine. thank you for having me. >> excited to talk about your book. i want to start with something that justice roberts said that you wrote, really produced gamss in the courtroom when he said it. he asked a question that likened school integration programs in the modern era to racist segregation program in the south. let's take listen. >> everyone got a seat in brown as well. but because they were assigned to those seats on the base i of race, it viola

who excoriated him for you know focusing so was in a rather short time we saw a different job -- john roberts and a different dynamic on the court. i think in response to what was going on, -- >> also in the area that the second term, the 2006 senate term was when they took up the seattle louisville's cool district case, very different term. a very divisive and many find for really said there were issues and i think he had rather firm views on it so you know they are not always consistent. they approach the law in different ways and they have different views. >> well, marcia coyle and linda greenhouse thank you so much for being with us tonight. [applause] up next on booktv "after words" with guest host a.b. stoddard associate editor of the hill. this week former senator olympia snowe and her book "fighting for common ground." in it the moderate republican from maine explores the issues of how congress came to its current state of gridlock and what could be done to forge a greater spirit of cooperation and compromise. the program is about an hour. >> host: we are here today to talk about "fig