well, like john walker and like judith, i did a fair amount of preparation tonight. before i came here i got off the plane, came down to the cornell club, got myself situated. then had to go down to 500 pearl street to the moynihan courthouse for the swearing in of susan carney, our newest colleague of the court. unfortunately for me, i left all of those notes in my room, so i am flying. all i have here is my jetblue ticket and a couple of things i wrote on the back. but let me give you a brief overview. i think the thing that comes through with what the lecture and the panel shows is that these were extraordinary times. lincoln's proclamation of april 15, 1861, in essence lays out the case as to why civil -- the civil courts are unable to deal with what is currently going on. federal officers had been arrested in southern ports, arsenals in various southern military instalations in the united states had been seized by the confederate states. the government is in essence breaking down and lincoln says, in essence, there is not a way for the courts at this moment in t

would note was the justice department received lower in the case of the so-called american taliban john walker lindh i had advised not to interrogate him without an attorney and not to torture him and when i blew the whistle i ended up being put under criminal investigation referred to a state bar or some which i'm licensed as a warrior and put on the no fly list but it. wasn't always this way in two thousand and two the time magazine person of the year was the whistleblowers and although the government tried to have him put away for life daniel ellsberg was hailed as a hero by the public for leaking information that became known as the pentagon papers classified documents he helped author that revealed what was actually happening in vietnam. what he revealed to the public what the public should have known from the government itself. important knowledge important knowledge now often stifled both on and off the battlefield and the military is sexually assaulted or abused or even raped she's supposed to go through the chain of command much well actually her instead of helping her outside of the

so along with harold holzer and judge judith kay, we'll have john walker who is now a senior circuit judge, formally the chief judge of the second circuit, the united states court of appeals. and as some of you may know, he served as a member of the -- does serve as a member of the judicial conference of the united states. he's currently a member of the conference's committee on international judicial relations, and is chair of its committee on judicial conduct and disability. and in new haven, yale law school, he teaches constitutional litigation and legal writing and is a director of the united states association of constitutional law. he's also some of you may be reassured to know is promoting the rule of law in china, the middle east, and central and eastern europe and he's very much dedicated to this and we're glad he's there as our ambassador, so to speak. and before going on the bench as some of you may know but i didn't realize, he'd been state council of the republican of -- so why don't you all come up here and take your places at the table. judge walker, judge kay, harold

along with harold holzer and judge judith kay, we'll have john walker, who is now a senior circuit judge, formally the chief judge 2nd court of appeals. he serveds a member -- or does serve as a member of the judicial conference of the united states. he's currently a member of the committee on international judiciary relations and is chair of its committee on judicial conduct and disability. and in new haven. at yail yale law school he teaches constitutional litigation and legal writing and is director of the united states association of constitutional law. he's also, some may be reassured to know, is promoting the rule of law in china, the middle east and central and eastern europe. he's very much dedicated to this. we're glad that he's there as our ambassador, so to speak. before going on the bench, as some of you may know, but i didn't realize, he was state counsel of the republic of botswana, also a partner in carter and millburn and assistant secretary of the treasury in 1981. come up here and take your places at the table. judge walker, judge kay, harlz holzer. >> still in the hot

question i mean we have to go back and take a look at it those who supported the taliban think of john walker lindh as a perfect example of that as somebody who essentially supported them in some sort of very nebulous fashion we've seen it in the past where there have been corporations who've been involved trying to support the the taliban only in the sense that they could somehow find a way to make money on it for whatever reason that was fine too and so what we're seeing now is that scene shift and you're seeing those politically speaking who are so who are trying to find a way to support them because again if they're killing people that we like it's not terrorism by the way we should add that the brits and even the e.u. have basically will be moved away from that terrorism name because again they like having these guys i mean if somebody else can do the dirty work and you can make an absolute denial as we have seen from the likes of our secretary of state who said we are absolutely not involved in the assassination of these five scientists and we have absolutely said it definitively isn't

former new hampshire governor john sununu and bob walker. thank you both. dp governor, let me start with you and ask you about the issue of turn out. newt gingrich's historical point he make that is in the one place he won turn out is up. turn out has been down. are you concerned about conservative enthusiasm and how they turned out overall and down 3% from four years ago. >> to look at a win in nevada where mitt romney got more votes than the other candidates put together as having a negative and they were certainly a pin effort by the opposition that did so badly. this process is a strong process. the timing is different than they were in the past. for example, when iowa and new

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people are getting enough already with this stuff if the union busters like mitch daniels what scott walker john case a jan brewer if they want to fight they're going to have a fight. for more on what's going on around the nation when it comes to the roads or working people and how working people can fight back i'm honored to be joined by congresswoman tammy baldwin representing wisconsin's second district in the running for the united states senate congresswoman baldwin great to have you with us it's wonderful to join you thank you so much what's the what's the state of working people right now you know. well and it was constantly working people and middle class families are taking it on the chin right now and it's not only because of this deep recession that we've been in but it's really as a consequence of i think many years of bad economic policies and when i travel around the state of wisconsin. i hear people really open up about their struggles right now and tell their individual stories i mean whether it's moms and dads who can't scrape any savings for their kids' college fund seniors who

walker acknowledged that prosecutors wanted to meet. they would like to talk to us about it, but we voluntarily set it up. joining me tonight, washington correspondent of the "the nation" magazine, john nicholls. what's going on here? was it voluntarily or did the prosecutors say it's time to meet with walker. you have to come in and talk to us? what's happening? >> the governor has been under investigation and his campaign has been under investigation for 20 months. they've been asked to turn over e-mails and all sorts of data. it is clear and reported throughout the media in wisconsin that it was district attorney john chism that asked the governor to come in and have those conversations which will lead to testimony. the governor tried to get ahead of it. had to back off that claim of it being voluntary. >> what does it mean that one of his former staffers that pled guilty is willing to cooperate? it would seem to me that the net would spread out a little bit wider and would it encompass walker even further? what do you think? >> it's very important what this former employee has agreed to cooperate with and what she's agreed to talk about. it is the destruction of digital records,

. >>> looks like governor scott walker legal problems are just beginning as a top aide pleads guilty in court, johnhols joins me on that, stay tuned. >>> in "psycho talk" tonight, noted conservative economist and college drop-out rush limbaugh, he's trying to put a negative spin on the 243,000 jobs created in january. >> even i failed to grasp this within the amount of the aloted time i had, we're still working on this i want to get to the bolt tom of -- bottom of it. i'm struck with the difference of 2.5 million jobs lost and 243,000 were created. the bottom line is this, in a nutshell, the withholding tax receipts number doesn't line up with employment. obama monkeying the numbers here, jimmying around with things in an election year designing things to make thing look better. >> limbaugh admits he doesn't understand what he's talking about he's confident the president is cooking the books. he is's wrong. here is how the wall street journal explains. the data act accounts for data in the population, a share of the population work gs is lower than previously believed, taking that in account, the e

former new hampshire governor john sununu and bob walker. thank you both.governor, let me start with you and ask you about the issue of turn out. newt gingrich's historical point he make that is in the one place he won turn out is up. turn out has been down. are you concerned about conservative enthusiasm and how they turned out overall and down 3% from four years ago. >> to look at a win in nevada where mitt romney got more votes than the other candidates put together as having a negative and they were certainly a pin effort by the opposition that did so badly. this process is a strong process. the timing is different than they were in the past. for example, when iowa and new hampshire started so early because the move came in, everybody is starting earlier than they expected. i think you will see turn out increase as we move in. >> the calendar looks similar for those. iowa is the same as four years ago. only two days difference. florida the same day. >> last time you were chasing an open seat. >> look. why spin numbers when the real issue was issues. wha