justice kagan has worked in the law in just about every capacity. she has served all three branches of our government, sampled private practice, and devoted many years to legal education. a professor at the university of chicago and then as a harvard law school she became harvard dean in 2003 and served until 2009, the year president obama appointed her solicitor general of the united states. since justice kagan's appointment in 2010, what a wise and witty participant she is in oral arguments. her opinions display the best, she never seeks to carry the day and her style is engaging. you would think from her clarity, fluency, and humor, that she was an assigned an altogether easy case, but i know the hours and hours one must spend to make it sound that way. in whatever she endeavors, she has been a star performer, first woman to become dean of the harvard law school, first woman to be confirmed as solicitor general, and in 1973, first woman to inaugurate a ceremony at manhattan's lincoln square synagogue. you likely do not know she was commandeered b

to be here tonight, justice elena kagan. [applause] ofill not steal the thunder justice ginsburg by talking about justice kagan. justice ginsburg was top among the women in her class at cornell university before attending harvard law school, where she was only one of nine 1959 in the class of before she transferred in graduated from columbia law school. upon graduation, she clerked for the southern district of new york. she became the second woman to join the faculty at rutgers university school of law. jeter at columbia, she became the first tenured woman on the faculty. she founded the women's rights project and is director of the project, she argued many court cases, including many before the u.s. supreme court, which challenged sexual stereotypes and pave the way for better opportunities for women. during her time at columbia, she served on our city bar executive from 1974-1978. prior to her -- to the supreme on the u.s.erved court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. it is my privilege to invite justice gins

kagan said he had been duped.ow, nope one is saying this latest story isn't legitimate and we have no reason to think anyone is being untruthful. but i did spoke to another coin dealer today who told me that coins can sell for more if there's an interesting story attached to them. and this story just gets more interesting every day. we tried to speak with don kagan today but he was out of town preparing to show the treasure at a large national coin show in atlanta this weekend. in tiburon, john ramos, kpix 5. >> the coins will be on display at that coin show beginning tomorrow morning. most of the buried treasure will end up being sold on amazon. >>> back to the weather here's a live look at the south bay right now our mobile weather lab is driving northbound along highway 101 moving well considering this wet weather. elizabeth wenger joins us with the traffic report. >> reporter: thanks. a lot of people actually decided to take mass transit to avoid headaches on the road and then it turned out bart was an issue e

robert kagan. and dr.ria nuland robert kagan. mr. raymond mcguire. ms. crystal mccleary. mr. bruce mosler. i will announce you. rummlerrable kathleen and justice elena kagan. mr. and mrs. stephen colbert air -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling. greet french president hollande is her life coverage of the state visit continues. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you to the south on pavilion. it has turned into a springlike display of french culture and flowers and arts. but first we will take a look inside the state dinner as part of our coverage here on c-span2's. we will tell you what it's like to be invited to one of these exclusives upstairs and get some background on the role of first

. >> reporter: kagan wrote the book on gold rush coins. >> some of these are finist there is.t's exciting for someone like me. and it isn't just the coins. i've done this for a long time but it's the story. >> reporter: it's a snapshot of our history. a time when putting money in the ground seemed safer than putting it in the bank. in fact, the couple who found these coins pulled a page from history. >> the first thing they did when they were done organizing the list they buried it again. >> in tiburon, noelle walker, ktvu news. >> can you imagine. you can own a piece of history for a price. the coin collection goes in sail in may on amazon.com and kagan's own website -- goes on sale in may on amazon.com. >>> we're going to trace the steps this palm tree takes before it's rooted in history. >>> arrested 22 times for the same crime. >> have you been arrested before. >> millions of times. they always arrest me. >> >>> tonight 2 investigates the b.a.r.t. derailment. we already knew last friday's incident happened at the same site as a 2011 derailment. now we've obtained the repor

. >> reporter: kagan wrote the book on gold rush coins. >> some of these are finist there is.t's exciting for someone like me. and it isn't just the coins. i've done this for a long time but it's the story. >> reporter: it's a snapshot of our history. a time when putting money in the ground seemed safer than putting it in the bank. in fact, the couple who found these coins pulled a page from history. >> the first thing they did when they were done organizing the list they buried it again. >> in tiburon, noelle walker, ktvu news. >> can you imagine. you can own a piece of history for a price. the coin collection goes in sail in may on amazon.com and kagan's own website -- goes on sale in may on amazon.com. >>> we're going to trace the steps this palm tree takes before it's rooted in history. >>> arrested 22 times for the same crime. >> have you been arrested before. >> millions of times. they always arrest me. >>> what happens when jail time is not enough. >> and more on this derailed train. the safety recommendations made years ago. >>> tonight 2 investigates the b.a.r.t. dera

don kagan representing the couple, the president of cagan's inc. meltss, must have been quite something when you heard from this couple. >> pretty incredible. >> they have asked to remain anonymous. they don't want to start a gold rush on their property. capital blame them. how did they come across this? they saw something. how did they not notice all of this before. >> they have been walking on it for years on their property. they had their dog with them. you know, it wasn't exactly on the trail. so what we understand is that maybe they saw a glint of light, maybe the sup hit one of the tin cans and they went over and took a stick, dug it out, took out the can, it was very heavy. they thought it was full of paint and they took it back, discovered there was gold in there. then they went back with a melts cans. >> this is unique on a number of different levels. among them, the fact that the coins stayed pristine after more than 100 years? >> that's what is really incredible about this. it isn't just the fact there is over 1400 gold coins. but these

. >> tamari can watch elena kagan -- tomorrow you can watch elena kagan and ruth bader ginsburg. it will begin at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span. it will befall a discussion of the three branches of the u.s. government, the future of democracy, and the 2014 midterm thations with her faster is at 11:30 a.m. eastern also on c-span. a conversationt, with republican senator bob corker on his early career in business. >> i have started working at most folks when i was 13 doing all kinds of odds and ends. i migrated to being a construction laborer, a rough carpenter. when i graduated from college i ended up being a construction superintendent. after about four years, i had built some reasonable -- regional malls around the country and learn how to build projects. when i was 25 years old, i went into business. i started doing a lot of repeat work come a small projects where i could be paid quickly. the company grew about 80% a year. we ended up building shopping centers around the country, retail projects in 18 states. it was energizing. it was a great place to be. the energy when you c

and it was interesting, both sides of the court had criticisms, more liberal members confident elana kagan and sonia soto mayor. shouldn't you defer to the agency that has the authority, the epa, and let the epa handle all that? on the other hand we heard the more conservative members of the bench, they, conservatives were pushing back and asking and pressuring them as to why the epa would essentially push further than congress in enacting regulations. >> so libby does this help or hurt the white house's efforts to limit greenhouse gases? >> we'll see, at this point it's too soon to tell really which way it might fall. it really has over narrow part of what epa does. this gets to whether president obama and his administration can go ahead and tighten regulations, his pen and phone to enact things. when congress in his perspective isn't doing enough so it may be a symbolic decision. but the epa will continue going on and enacting other regulations relate being to greenhouse -- relating to greenhouse gas. epa says that's the number one concern for americans' help. >> libby casey thank you ve

but we are told there is a lot of kagan paper, and that's something that she was lacking, consideringhat she did not have a judicial background when she was up for the supreme court bid. the guy who may be watching the clinton machine with the most attention these days, and frankly consternation, is vice president joe biden. you may want to call biden the rodney dangerfield of the democratic party. he's not gettin' much respect these days. this week, biden was everywhere, rubbing shoulders with the republican governors, urging democrats to stop apologizing and got on auf in 2014, calling voter i.d. laws lingering hatred, and more than hinting about his own 2016 aspirations and what was quite the media blitz. >> well, you know, i was planning on making a major announcement tonight -- [ cheers ] -- but i decided tonight's your night. >> thank you. thank you. >> so i hope you'll invite me back. >> you haven't said no? >> no, i absolutely have not said no. it's likely i run as i don't run. i truly haven't made up my mind. >> at every turn, there's evidence that hillary clinton is standing

justices ruth bader ginsburg and elena kagan recently appeared at a new york event andssociation and discussed civil rights cases. here is a brief look. in my years serving with justice ginsburg, i have come to admire her more and more each day. as a judge, colleague, and a friend. they say life on the court can be a little cloistered. i did not realize until recently that the folks on the outside, justice ginsburg is much more than that. and many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. [laughter] i will disappear from my first prop. rbg.otorious [applause] they sell these. truly. opera,the subject of an a comic book, a tumbler, and a blog called the ruth bader againsginsblog. i will disappear now for my second prop. she is a bobblehead. this part of the discussion on the life and career of ruth bader ginsburg gets underway at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span. on tomorrow morning's washington journal, dr. deborah peel discusses by the sea laws and the future of benefits. americans access to food, and your foes cut -- phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. >> the judges, i think, are more import

let's look at who's critical to the senate making -- keeping the -- in the senate, pryor, landrieu, kagan, every one is running -- >> let's wait, step on the conversation. i would note that cook says that the republicans -- that the democrats may be enough to gain eight seats in the house. let's go back to this issue which i think is fascinating, right, which is that the republicans put some cuts on the table. couldn't even pass them, couldn't even get your own measure passed through the house. and meanwhile, you have your own members of the party sabotaging themselves. this is so cannibalism going on in the republican party. tell me, to be honest, the republicans right now, their biggest problem isn't president obama and his policies and what you think he is or isn't willing to do, it's people like ted cruz who are embarrassing the leadership of their own party. >> look, what you're seeing on our side and what speaker boehner put forward as a plan was to say we need 218 votes. we're all committed to cutting spending but one of the biggest drivers is obama care. it's projected to add $2 b

there prior since then souter and john paul stevens have retired they were replaced by sotomayor and kagan and listening to the arguments today i don't believe that their their votes will be any different than if david souter and. still there so we're looking at again in a five four we still have we have it was so we still have basically four fairly solid progress of. not as conservative yet not not as conservative but actually a ruth bader ginsburg is oh shit yes solid so but. then briar can be as well yeah but briar. is kind of more of a little the road come together but given that this whole shift of the court is sort of the right i read lawyers book a couple years ago as fascinated with some of those arguments we're going to write without humans. so this takes us back to justice kennedy it does in justice kennedy did not say a lot he expressed some concern with the pay go too far but he most vehemently defended the rule the ruling in two thousand and seven saying this we have to we have to. follow that ruling and it's reasoning he point in i don't know if he was pointing out more to th

yes i think it's a brilliant question kagan and you know most americans don't even know what proportional representation ins but the fact of the matter is that you know our form of government was we were.

country code let's go to our first video comment of the night kagan in syracuse new york. it's on this is keegan at syracuse university our district system is absolutely broken shouldn't we move to a proportional system where every american is equally represented in their ideas if for example three percent of the country is green party shouldn't we have three percent green party representation in congress thanks.

yes i think it's a brilliant question kagan and you know most americans don't even know what proportional representation is but the fact of the matter is that you know our form of government was we were very early you know i mean it was like but wait someone seen hundreds the minutes of of the no seven hundred seven hundred eighty seven you know when the constitution was written and it really wasn't until as i recall eighteen fifty the maybe eight hundred sixty in the eight hundred fifty s. or eight hundred sixty s. . that anybody came up with the idea of proportional representation and so you know . the democracies that have been created since our civil war essentially have all gone with the john stuart mill was the guy who came up with the idea as i recall in his book on liberty and and in any case the countries that have come along since our civil war have said hey that you know just or i'm not a pretty good idea let's you know whatever put you know if the party gets three percent of the vote they get three percent of the seats of a party is twelve percent of the vote they get twelve p

robert kagan. >> mr. raymond maguire. ms. rachel mccreary. >> mr.ruce muller. -- mosler. >> the honorable kathy rummler. justice elena kagan. and mrs. stephen cole there. -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling.

but what has made me so satisfied with my career is what justice kagan spoke about. that i spend a lot of my time doing something outside myself, doing something that i hope makes life better for people who are not as fortunate. so you will have a skill that you can use to make a living but also to help make things a little better for other people, to repair tears in your communities. we should ask the once great dean -- he must have been telling students all the time. [laughter] >> well, it turns out that justice ginsburg could have been a great dean too because that's what i would have said. [laughter] >> very funny. >> for justice ginsburg. how do you feel about the educational institutions that still only admit women on the there toy that those institutions are nurturing and otherwise protecting women. n example might be such as barner college is still women only even though columbia accepts women as well? >> in the v.m.i. case, one of the best friends of the fort brees was filed by the seven sister colleges. there was nothing the state of virginia offered to its

at the attorney for the energy interests, pushing the attorney in and justice soto mayor, justice kagan, there are so many sources of pollution on your side, since you can't, shouldn't it be left to the regulating agency to really figure out what that is and deal with it accordingly? on the other side of the bench we saw the more conservative government. they pushed the government attorney and said in essence it feels like the epa was overstepping the bounds that congress had laid out. the key justice, might be just kennedy often the one who determines how the case falls and he had interest being push back for both groups. we are waiting for the decision, should come out in mid june. >> most of these cases usually come down to justice kennedy. libby good to see you. >>> a mysterious polio incident has been detected in as many as a dozen children in california. concern for a new virus. melissa chan. what are authorities dyeing dealing with here? >> officials are very careful to say this is a polio like illness. the symptoms are quite similar. doctors can't diagnose this, it could be a vi

justice kagan why this dispute is not classic case to deference tohe agency. the agency gs to choose how to make tng work as best it can? when the change makes it not work entirely as congress foretold. >> the epa chose to try timely meant the broad protective goals of the statute by bending a little bit on the implementation side. i think tt's a choice that agencies have to be able to make. >> scores ever businesses, states, led by texas and several gop lawmars are characterizing what happened as an unprecedented power grab and calling on the justices to restore what they argue is the rightful balan between the branches. >> from a constitutional perspective this is a wholly troubling practice that needs to be rectified by the high court. >> as is so often the case here at the court the swing vote could be justice anthony kennedy the last time there was a major challenge to epa regulatory here at the court he sided with the agency. but today at the federal government came to the close of its arguments, he said i read all your briefin and i see no case anywhere

supreme court justices ruth bader ginsburg and elena kagan.n a discussion about the three branches of government and the future of democracy. then steve wozniak talks about the creation of apple and the first personal computer. >> tonight we conclude our series "first ladies." a two-hour program on michelle obama. >> she brings financial resources to the marriage as well as her managerial skills, makes mount vernon a successful operation, and makes washington profitable for the eight years of fighting a war. >> there was something about abraham lincoln that he saw the potential and encouraged it and help develop it. she helped polish them up for washington society. the political parties they had were they invited a lot of important people. talking with the wives of very important gentlemen, she will did a lot of powers. >> the involvement of mrs. roosevelt in the political career of franklin roosevelt is right from the beginning. she becomes much more act of in her role after 1921, when franklin roosevelt contracted polio. she would encourage

elena kagan avlged why this isn't a classic case for deference to the agency, that the agency gets to choose how to make the thing work as best it can when a chain circumstance makes it work not entirely the way congress had foretold. >> epa chose to try to implement the broad protective goals of the statute by bending a little bit on the implementation side. i think that's a choice that agencies have to be able to make. >> scores of businesses, states led by texas, and several gop lawmakers are characterizing what happened as an unprecedented power grab and calling on the justices to restore what they argue is the rightful balance between the branches. >> from a constitutional perspective, this is a troubling practice that needs to be rectified by the high court. >> as in so many controversies here at the high court, justice anthony kennedy could be the swing vote in the case. the last time there was a challenge to epa regulatory power, he sided with the agency. today, he said i read all your briefi briefing. i don't see a case that supports what you're asking me. it does seem to sug

leslie kagan and melanie k. wrote about a real-life might be different under socialism. ron gonzales wrote on immigrants in this country. william ayers wrote teaching freedom. they've wonder if and socialist medicine on the right to housing, creating a sustainable food system. i read an article on civil law. michael ratner wrote about what he would do if he was the attorney general. put someone with my posse to attorney general. i would answer that to say with climate change, hell is warm enough for her. [laughter] steve bush man who did a wonderful job editing this book or article on drugs in a society where people care about each other. matt callahan wrote our capitalism. personal, emotional life without capitalism. michael's wake wrote the working class has the majority. renÉe braden gall wrote on a woman's workday. pretty nice but not a pretty terry bisson wrote a fine short story, looking back 2077. last and most importantly, joe korbel road on eco-socialism is the first piece of the book of the last piece of the book. can't do it under capitalism. if we don't solve

justice kagan why this dispute is not classic case to deference to the agency. the agency gets to choose how to make the thing work as best it can? when the change makes it not work entirely as congress foretold. >> the epa chose to try timely meant the broad protective goals of the statute by bending a little bit on the implementation side. i think that's a choice that agencies have to be able to make. >> scores ever businesses, states, led by texas and several gop lawmakers are characterizing what happened as an unprecedented power grab and calling on the justices to restore what they argue is the rightful balance between the branches. >> from a constitutional perspective this is a wholly troubling practice that needs to be rectified by the high court. >> as is so often the case here at the court the swing vote could be justice anthony kennedy the last time there was a major challenge to epa regulatory here at the court he sided with the agency. but today at the federal government came to the close of its arguments, he said i read all your briefing and i see n

don kagan is helping the owners who wish to remain anonymous. me about the coins.ins is worth over $10 million today. it has a value of about $28,000. >> what is this couple telling you. have they wrapped their brains about it? >> they don't want their lives to be changed. they want to be anonymous. they asked that we respect their anonymity and we do, but they want to give back. they top the give to charities with the money, but they are thankful and they think it's wonderful that they can save their property and they thought they might lose. again they want to give back to the community and needy people. >> that's wonderful to hear, but this is your wheel house. you know about rare coins. help me understand how a couple of jars of coins can be worth this kind of cash. >> it's fantastic because it's not just a burch of gold or gold nuggets or cold coins. these are rare u.s. coins from 1847 to 1894. not only that, they are in pristine condition. almost all of them are like they came right from the mint. many are rare. some are worth up to $1 million apiece. you hav

ginsburg and elena kagan, later. a discussion about the three branches of u.s. government and the future of democracy. >> this week on q&a, lee ellis discusses his five and a half years in north vietnam as a prisoner of war. >> lee ellis, go back to november 7, 1967, at 4:00. what happened? >> i was in my 53rd combat mission in vietnam. that day, we rolled in and were working with a group that had called us in and said that they needed some bombs on gunners. we rolled into do that and there were two of us on the f-4 phantom. the bombs came off the airplane at 4000 or 5000 feet. unusually, the airplane burst into several pieces. we were tumbling, end over end. there was smoke in the cockpit and i could not communicate with my partner. i knew i had to get out and i was well trained. i was about to eject over enemy territory that we had to bombing for a couple of years. there was no other choice and i pulled a handle. everything worked automatically and perfectly. it blew the canopy and blew me 50 feet in the air. it separated the seats from me, which automatically

join us tonight at eight eastern for remarks from supreme court justices ruth the ginsburg and elena kagan. they talked recently about the court and women's rights that election -- a lecture series hosted by the new york city bar association. here's a look. >> so in my three and a half years on the court, serving with justice ginsburg, i've come to admire her really more and more each day. as a judge, college and a friend. you know, they say that life on the court can be a little cloistered, and i didn't realize until recently that the folks on the outside justice ginsburg is much more than that. too many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. [laughter] i'm going to disappear from my first crop. the notorious rbg. [laughter] [applause] >> they sell these, truly. she is the subject of an opera, a comic book, a tumbler and a blog called trans one blog. i'm going to disappear now for my second prop. she is a bobble head. [laughter] >> watch all of that event with two supreme court justices tonight at eight eastern over on c-span. >> on the next "washington journal," the appeal of patient privacy ri

tonight at eight eastern on c-span supreme court justice elena kagan and ruth bader ginsburg will be talking about the court and women's rights. this is an event is hosted bracelet by the new york bar association coming up at 8 p.m. eastern. next on c-span2, a senate judiciary committee hearing from yesterday examined the federal government's surveillance and data collection program. the committee heard from members of the presidential privacy and civil liberties oversight board which recently released a report calling the bulk collection of phone records by the nsa unlawful and that it should come to an end. the hearing was an hour and 45. >> to begin this hearing of theh senate judiciaryea committee on the report of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board on reforms to section 215 telephone records program and the foreign intelligence court. here appreciate your being heree today, all five members of the board are here. and and most important, your extraordinarily impressivethe me report, which is all the more so because of the less than ideal conditions under which you did

ruthus for remarks on bader ginsburg and elena kagan. ginsburg'sed justice career and discussed various women's rights cases. here is a brief look. >> in my years on the court serving with justice ginsburg, i have come to admire her more and more each day as a judge, colleague, and friend. they say that life on the court can be a little cloistered. i didn't realize until recently that the folks on the outside -- to folks on the inside, justice ginsburg is much more than that. too many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. [laughter] i'm going to disappear for my first prop. the notorious rbg. [applause] they sell these, truly. [laughter] she is the subject of an opera, a comic book, a tumblr, and a ginscalled the "ruth bader blog. -- blog." i will disappear now for my second crop. prop. she is a bobblehead. >> and again, the discussion on the life and career of ruth bader ginsburg starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. of justice iance think is more important than justice itself. i believe that. only a very small number comparatively