standing with caroline kennedy. second question, can you reignite that as you move on to a re-election campaign after november? that is what he is going to be doing. >> i think he has to try to to that. i would disagree with gloria. they both embodied change. when an african-american stood there and a young catholic stood there, they are saying i am the change you seek or have been waiting. >> the change you have been waiting for. >> as you were saying, he basically has to educate the electorate to say this is what i have done. for him, saving the economy was very much like the cubans missile crisis for jack kennedy. it has to be his defining moment. i came in a situation, looked at a situation that was dire, and he saved it. >> that is true. >> there may be small things he points to also. it may not be the big sweeping gestures, extended health care benefits for people in their 20's. >> here is where experience shows though. i think even people who work for barack obama will tell you that he did underestimate the a

. >> we're sitting in the middle of the kennedy center. what's your job? >> well, as president of the kennedy center, i am ultimately responsible for everything that happens in the center. my main functions i believe are as artistic director; i am responsible for the programming that we produce here. i am very much responsible for paying for that programming and doing the fundraising and the marketing to build audiences to pay for that programming and also responsible for leading our educational programs, which are very substantial. both educational programs to bring children and adults into the arts, but also our newest venture, which is to train arts leaders to be better arts leaders. >> budget every year is how much? >> it's about $165 million, it goes up or down a little bit depending upon what we produce in our theaters, but right now it's about $165 million budget. >> how much of that comes from the taxpayer? >> that's our operating budget. now the operating amount are the taxpayer is giving us about $20 million to operate the center each year, i'm r

. >> coming up michael kaiser of the kennedy center for the performing arts. also, nick nicolas sarkozy's address to diplomats at an ambassador conference. this morning, -- as the gulf coast marks the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina, look back at how the federal government responded to the crisis online at the c-span video library. every program is free since 1987. it is washington, your weight. -- your way. >> this week on q&a, our guest is michael kaiser. >> michael kaiser, can you remember when you first got interested in the arts? >> i can exactly remember. i was four years old, my parents took me to see "the music man" with barbara cook and when she sang, "goodnight, my someone", she stood in the balcony of the porch of her home and all of the sudden you could see through the front of the house to a little girl playing the piano and i was captured by the magic of the theater. >> where did you live then? >> i lived in new rochelle, new york and about 25, 30 minute drive from new york city and once a year, my parents took the three children to the br

kennedy's presidency. ted southernson was a key advisor and at the president's side when this nation came to closest its ever been to a nuclear war. our cheryl jennings spoke with him about his reflections from camelot to cuba. >> it is seered in my brain to this day. >> reporter: ted sorenson, speech writer who walked side by side with president kennedy, vividly remembers the frightening time during the cuban missile crisis in 1962. >> no one knew what the right answer was. we had tried to go through the united nations secretary general. we had tried direct messages between kennedy and khrushchev through a back channel. nothing worked up to that day. >> reporter: he says the movie, 13 days, got most of it right. as president kennedy tried to find a peaceful solution to stop a potential nuclear war. >> the generals thought that the only real way to get rid of the missiles pointed at the united states was to bomb them and follow that up with an invasion. if we had done that, you and i wouldn't be sitting he

the kennedy center raises 60% of our funding outside of the washington area. we are able to expand our activities outside of washington. there are organizations all over the country. i am hoping they can start to build their profiles. that was a very important part of my message because i believe that they have a claim on resources in their communities. >> i am talking about your favorite broadway show. >> i go back to oklahoma. i was in oklahoma, so i love that. it is hard to pick one. >> classical music musi? n. i am a huge mozart famil in my singing, i was a base and there was an awful lot of blocah his. music is so glorious. i did a big project that was one of the great projects of my life. i'm a jazz fan. it is hard for me to narrow it damown. >> what about ballet? >> as ballet company start to cross borders, different styles do not exist anymore. i love to young dancers that are 20 years old and they are astonishingly good. we are lucky to have them every year at the kennedy center. i love seeing those companies. but also like the miami city ballet. ther

and bana had the greatest things to say about teddy kennedy.you think teddy kennedy's absence from the senate with his charm and his ability to work inside and not create the kind of thing we see today. do you think that is causing this and who do you think is going to replace ted kennedy? >> ted did reach across the aisle. even teddy kennedy in my judgment could not melt the iceburg that is mitch mcconnell that caused this ranker in the senate today. you've got -- i think the senate today is less effective, less productive than ever in our lifetime. ever. >> are you talking about the filibuster vote? are you talking about the rank in file, everybody voting against? >> i am talking about -- >> the party of no? >> yes, every rule. every filibuster, every possible means of obstruction holding up every appointment. the secret holes are being used like never before. deliberately to stop anything the democrats want to do. >> don't you see that reid is shutting them out? no committee action will handle this in my office, so to speak. he does not let

, justice anthony kennedy, the supreme court of the united states. >> suarez: that first appeal, howany judges in the ninth circuit hear and that and how are they chosen? >> randomly and it will be a three-judge panel in the first instance. and then the entirety of the court will make a decision about whether to hear it as a group enbank. either way it won't end there. it will go to the supreme court of the united states, it doesn't matter whether the ninth circuit reverses or affirms judge walker. it will be before the supreme court of the united states. >> suarez: jennifer hisser, judge walker ruled on specific due process equal protection grounds. does his ruling in effect create the grounds on which the appeal is argued? >> i think the most important thing judge walker did was heard the testimony of a great many witnesses and provided by a detail set of findings of fact hisser addressing the interests that had been advanced by the prop 8 defenders, the reasons that they say prop 8 should be upheld as constitutional. judge walker heard professors and experts and his findings exami

the last time we did it, it was at the kennedy center. the eisenhower theater -- they sold out in 48 hours. it is because the ticket was only $20. [laughter] on the way out, and hamlet has a tough time getting even six boats for the jury -- 6 votes for the jury. . . getting even six boats for the jury -- 6 votes for the jury. on the way out, there were high school kids and college students are doing about the issue of senate because insanity on the way out. i don't take a position on whether or not he is sane or insane, because i am the judge in the case. i wish to blame and understood more often what it is -- i wish laymen understood why we recurred -- reserve judgment, what we don't discuss pending cases. it is partly because the dynamics of decision making or that you have to make up your mind at a particular time. et have committed yourself before hand to the idea, it is hard to change your mind. we owe it to the profession, to the judiciary, to the rule of law to keep an open mind. ronald reagan had moral concerns about mutually assu

after dwight eisenhower and the election of jack kennedy and the dream of jack kennedy -- i would likelittle note in your that jack kennedy and i were both the and as member of the house and the and this member of the senate and he was a candidate of the senate and he was a roman catholic and i am a roman catholic. if you ever want to see someone swell with ambition, tell them you cannot do it. that is what is all about. the catholic cannot be elected that bugged the hell out of me, we worked twice as hard. lyndon johnson made the dreams of jack kennedy the realities of lyndon johnson. >> a famous story after the 1960 election. the president and secretary of state are at sea and there's only enough food for one. one of them has to go overboard. [unintelligible] [laughter] can you shed light on the 1960 election? let me tell you about the 1960 election. edie polman, who was working for jack kennedy in massachusetts had me working in alabama. i said, what are you doing? he said, we need you out there. i said, i do not know if you are trying to hide me or if this is territory that you can

kennedy trabajaba con el sen. simpson, hace 20 aÑos...cerlo. su punto de vista ha cambiado tanto... pero sabemos que hay 11 republicanos en el senado que votaron a favor de la reforma en el 2006 y un par de ellos que no estaban en el senado que deben votar a favor. no necesitamos todos, necesitamos la mitad. >>y los 3 Ó 4 democratas que hasta ahora no han estado claros, tambiÉn. >>exactamente. >>¿ustedes estÁn trabajando sobre eso? cecilia, el problema es que nosotros -que no estamos en la casa blanca como usted que, casi vive allÍ- no vemos lo que hacen detrÁs del telÓn. ¿estÁn trabajando dÍa...? >¡ay, sÍ! ¿sabes? he dedicado toda mi carrera a esta cuestiÓn. estoy trabajando con el presidente mÁs dedicado a una reforma de inmigraciÓn que cualquier otro, en mi experiencia. Él estÁ totalmente de acuerdo. pero el presidente no es rey, necesita el apoyo del congreso. yo fui con Él a hablar con los republicanos en el senado, a una reuniÓn privada, y Él dijo: "no necesitan venir en mi direcciÓn ni la mitad, pero necesito un poco de ustedes. dÍ

and kennedy said, no, he didn't need any, and nixon heard kennedy say it, and so he said, "i don't want any makeup, either." and he needed it. >> people who listened on radio thought that nixon performed better or as well as kennedy, but those who watched it on television thought john kennedy had won by a landslide. it was that first moment in our history when we saw that television can transform a political candidate from a candidate into a celebrity, and it changed the whole contours of our politics. >> television, depending on your point of view, either gave voters a powerful new way to evaluate their candidates or ushered in an era that overemphasized the visual. perhaps the lesson is no matter what new technology comes along, its true influence takes some time to be seen. we will end where we began, but this time, with a one-word answer. is our political journalism better and getting better or worse? jim? >> it's better and getting better. that's not one word. >> it's different, and it has e ability to get better. >> we end on an optimistic note, then. thank you, jim vandenhei of p

that they have arguments on all three points. >> the fact this appeal could end up with justice kennedywhat could that tell us in terms of a clue towards how prop 8 will ultimately be resolved supreme court? >> assuming judge walker lifts the stay and gives the parties about seven days to appeal, the next week may well be a preview of the entire case. the issues are very similar and the players are very similar. we'll get an idea how the 9th circuit is leaning on this case and we may get an idea how anthony kennedy who will probab have the swing vote how the supreme court is leaning and these how it could all come out. >> one of the arguments by the same sex marriage people was they wanted to protect marriage as though having same sex marriageould cause harm to heterosexual marriage. >> these the argument they've always made and it's characteristic because there are argumentshat they state the principle. but they're ve vague on the specifics. they've never been able to tell us precisely how allowing same sex marriage would harm opposite sex marriage. and, in fact, there was testimony in

>> he married patricia kennedy. >> jack kennedy's sister. this woman is still alive.'s 88, maybe 89. she has been in the news a lot lately. she is playing a woman senator in 1962. let's watch and see if you recognize her. >> it is not enough that the subcommittee has permitted a great man to be smeared. now the chairman of that committee is deliberately blocking the committee vote. it is one more thing to add the most unfair hearing in the history of the senate. >> mr. president, will the senator yield for a question? >> i will yield to the senator from kansas. >> mr. president, i am not a supporter of mr. leffingwell, but i watched the hearing on television and it seemed eminently fair to me. >> i am sorry the senator from kansas was not perceptive enough to grasp what was obvious. i am telling the senate exactly what happened. >> as much as i appreciate hearing about the senator's particular view, i am constrained to say i will need more substantial proof than his personal description. >> is she calling me a liar? >> the record will stand as it is. how he interprets

that they have arguments on all three points. >> the fact this appeal could end up with justice kennedyat could that tell us in terms of a clue towards how prop 8 will ultimately be resolved supreme court? >> assuming judge walker lifts the stay and gives the parties about seven days to appeal, the next week may well be a preview of the entire case. the issues are very similar and the players are very similar. we'll get an idea how the 9th circuit is leaning on this case and we may get an idea how anthony kennedy who will probably have the swing vote how the supreme court is leaning and these how it could all come out. >> one of the arguments by the same sex marriage people was they wanted to protect marriage as though having same sex marriage would cause harm to heterosexual marriage. >> these the argument they've always made and it's characteristic because there are arguments that they state the principle. but they're very vague on the specifics. they've never been able to tell us precisely how allowing same sex marriage would harm opposite sex marriage. and, in fact, there was testim

joining us at 8:00 is anthony kennedy. an hour later, the focus is president obama's first appointment to the bench. she talks about her life and experiences. then, a conversation with ruth bader ginsberg. >> the c-span networks, we provide coverage of american history, books, current affairs. this is all available to you on line, on there, and our networks. created by cable, provided as a public service. at the national press club this morning, the democratic national campaign committee chair said the democrats would maintain their majority in the house in the november elections and that the recent reports of the democratic demise are greatly exaggerated. he talked about his overall strategy and also responded to john pater's address earlier this week when he criticized the democratic agenda. >> we will have an update on how the issues from the democratic perspective. a newsmaker committee notes that the club is making of a date for representative pete sessions, chair of the national republican committee to present his si

the last time we did it, it was at the kennedy center.theater -- they sold out in 48 hours. it is because the ticket was only $20. [laughter] on the way out, and hamlet has a tough time getting even six boats for the jury -- 6 votes for the jury. on the way out, there were high school kids and college students are doing about the issue of senate because insanity on the way out. i don't take a position on whether or not he is sane or insane, because i am the judge in the case. i wish to blame and understood more often what it is -- i wish laymen understood why we recurred -- reserve judgment, what we don't discuss pending cases. it is partly because the dynamics of decision making or that you have to make up your mind at a particular time. et have committed yourself before hand to the idea, it is hard to change your mind. we owe it to the profession, to the judiciary, to the rule of law to keep an open mind. ronald reagan had moral concerns about mutually assured destruction, the rule that if we have an atomic attack, we will immediately r

kennedy, and barack obama. the famous senators, over time, from henry clay to robert taft and hubert humphrey -- in many ways, they made themselves to controversial as senators to be elected to president of united states. when taft died, he had only been a leader for six months -- became leader for six months. he had tried for the presidency several times. he had a lot of supporters. he had been running things in the senate long before he became the majority leader. he only formally took over when that -- when president eisenhower took office. he had such a large body of support in the senate and the country that they felt that some special memorial was needed. the constructed that taft carillon. it brings out every hour and has the statute of senator taft in front of it. >> you mention the 1962 movie " advise and consent." let's watch a little bit of this. we will see henry fonda, who was nominated for secretary of state. do you remember this? >> i have seen this movie many times. every time i talked, i showed

kennedy community schools is an architectural marvel, a campus full of modern buildings, an auditorium, a ritzy cafe and even a manicured park. >> the children in this school system, the most congested area in the school system, the most diverse in this school system are going to have one of the most beautiful learning environments. >> reporter: but the school's price tag -- $578 million -- is raising a lot of eyebrows. the math works out to be about $135,000 per student. >> it is the most costly school in the united states. >> reporter: when ground was broken, it seemed like a good idea. the site is historically hallowed ground. it's where the old ambassador hotel once stood -- the tragic site of robert kennedy's assassination in 1968. in deciding how best to memorialize him, many thought a state-of-the-art school would fit the bill, but that was the '80s. today, california is laying off thousands of teachers and cutting back on academic programs, all in an effort to fill a $600 million budget gap. some say opening a taj mahal-style education complex hardly seems appropriate now. >> w

to judge kennedy on the supreme court. he has ruled fairbly on -- saferbly on same sex cases and he is usually the swing vote. same sex voters will hold a rally that will march down to the civic center at 5:00. >> whoever loses this case, they are going to appeal, what does this mean to other couples? >> as he mentioned, it will go to the 9th circuit court of appeals and the real gold is everyone wants to get this into the hands of the justice system. >>> stay with us for coverage of that ruling. we will have details as well as reaction. >>> people are celebrating night out. they are in the fight together. something extra is being used to keep one neighborhood safe. >> reporter: it is national night out in claremont and oakland and they can't help but think about the other 364 days a year. roger is the closingest thing this mayor has and he has crime has gone up ever since he laid off some people. he talked to them about shipping in and paying for their own property arrangement falls. >> you would suspect to hear that from

the kennedy health care reform package, looking at funding in some capacity, financing long-term careices for the community. so that is a moving target, and we know we have to continue to be vigilant advocates for those issues. policies create a community sensitive to the needs of individuals with memory loss. i will always associate this with pat fox. how do we build those communities? it really takes a village. e system here, but it is the schools, the arts community, the recreation department. because we are so visible, with representatives across departments today, i got a call from their supervisor and there are four police officers from the tenderloin here. and boy, are they important. [applause] why are they important? because oftentimes we call the first responders to a family crisis. > capacity so we do not apologize -- mythologize the experience. we normalize, finding a way that the community can respond to most compassionate actions. and finally, putting together some sources of ongoing strategy, facilitating an oath -- an oversight body and advocating for the improvements

who may determine if gay marriage is legal across the united states. >> reporter: justice kennedy has a major dilemma a he has been fairly liberal on gay rights decisions he has also been fairly consistently conservative on family law decisions, things about mothers and fathers and parenting and children. >> erin and managerily say the time is now, time for the highest court in the land to rule on gay marriage. >> the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happy nece. these are inalienable rights we have. >> reporter: gay marriages could be up and running if judge walker rules not to extend the stay on his judgment. now if that is the case prop 8 sponsors will most likely ask the ninth circuit court of appeals to issue their own suspension during their appeal. reporting live here in san francisco, mike be back, ktvu news. >>> as ty a peels are filed stay with ktvu channel 2 news and ktvu will also take you back to the castro district for another live report coming up at 10:45. >>> bp declared victory today in its effort to finally plug the gushing oil well this the gulf of mexico.

who may determine if gay marriage is legal across the united states. >> reporter: justice kennedy has major dilemma a he has been fairly liberal on gay rights decisions he has also been fairly consistently conservative on family law decisions, things about mothers and fathers and parenting and children. >> reporter: erin and managerily say the time is now, time for the highest court in the land to rule on gay marriage. >> the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happy nece. these are inalienable rights we have. >> reporter: gay marriages could be up and running if judge walker rules not to extend the stay on his judgment. now if that is the case prop 8 sponsors will most likely ask the ninth circuit court of appeals to issue their own suspension during their appeal. reporting live here in san francisco, mike be back, ktvu news. >>> as ty a peels are filed stay with ktvu channel 2 news and ktvu will also take you back to the castro district for another live report coming up at 10:45. >>> bp declared victory today in its effort to finally plug the gushing oil well this the gulf of

wherwill anthony kennedy go? we don't know.e know he was the author of a decision called lawrence versus texas in which he said we as a court have not given enough legitimacy to same sex relationships in the past. we now need to reexamine the jurist prudee of the relationshs. >> if pr 8 is upheld, if the judge upholds it, contrary to what you might think, what happens, it goes to the supreme court and then there will not be any marrges of course until there's a ruling on that. >> if prop 8 is upheld the plaintiffs will undoubtedly appeal to the 9th circuit. i think the 9th circuit given recent decisions might very well reverse that and strike down prop 8 and the loser in the 9th circuit will go to the supreme court. >> that ruling between 1:00 and 3:00 and you will be here. >> i will be here. >> we appreciate it. let's take a look at the battle over same sex marriage over the last six years in california. 2004 mayor gavin knewsome issued marriage licenses to 4,000 same sex couple the ste supreme court ruled they were invalid. n

if you look at the history of justice kennedy there's a good likelihood that justice anthony kennedy will say prop 8 was unconstitutional. there have been two cases before the united states supreme court in the last generation dealing with sexual orientation. both of them 5-4. both of them with justice anthony kennedy saying you cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. >> reporter: same sex marriage is currently legal in five u.s. states, massachusetts, connecticut, vermont, iowa and new hampshire and in the district of columbia while civil unions are allowed in new jersey. live in san francisco in front of city hall this morning, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and as always our complete coverage continues at our channel 2 website at ktvu.com. we have posted judge walker's entire ruling on the site. we also have a link to the video evidence presented during the trial. >>> your time 6:36. appearing in contra costa county superior court this morning for arraignment, 23- year-old younger brother of giants outfielder is facing several charges in connection with a

kennedy community schools. the crown jewel of l.a. unified massive construction campaign.described in headlines across the country this morning, when it opens, the 24-acre campus and its combination of six schools will have cost an estimated $578 million, by far the most expensive public school ever built anywhere. >> i look at the classroom, and there's state of the art and it's what children should have. >> built where the famed ambassador hotel once stood there's also a demand by preservation groups to maintain its historic integrity. there's a gymnasium, competitive swimming pool and state of the art athletic fields, also a coffee shop, originally designed by famed architect paul williams to be used as the faculty lounge and cafeteria. the famed coconut grove, a nightclub that once served as host to the 1978 academy awards was recreated complete with lighting fixtures. outside a bank of flat screen televisions with video loops informing the students of the history here. >> and then there's the library, hallowed ground in american political history. built in the frame o

where will anthony kennedy go? we don't know.e know he was the author of a decision called lawrence versus texas in which he said we as a court have not given enough legitimacy to same sex relationships in the past. we now need to reexamine the jurist prudence of the relationships. >> if prop 8 is upheld, if the judge upholds it, contrary to what you might think, what happens, it goes to the supreme court and then there will not be any marriages of course until there's a ruling on that. >> if prop 8 is upheld the plaintiffs will undoubtedly appeal to the 9th circuit. i think the 9th circuit given recent decisions might very well reverse that and strike down prop 8 and the loser in the 9th circuit will go to the supreme court. >> that ruling between 1:00 and 3:00 and you will be here. >> i will be here. >> we appreciate it. let's take a look at the battle over same sex marriage over the last six years in california. 2004 mayor gavin knewsome issued marriage licenses to 4,000 same sex couples. the state supreme court ruled they wer

corruption, tribalism, and in kennedy are deeply ingrained, and it would take more than a piece of paper to change that. it will be hard for any politician to change. abc news, nairobi. >> security has been tightened after a grenade attack seriously injured a security guard. this is the third such blast in bangkok in at just over a month. the government says the reason for the attacks is unclear. landslides killed 11 in the northeast turkey. roads were flooded near the georgian border. landslides are common locally, but buildings are still being put up on unstable land. in and of development that could mean more productive crops, researchers in britain say they have decoded the genome of weeks. -- wheat. pakastani authorities have ordered more evacuations in the south as bridges in the banks of the indus threaten new flooding. the u.n. says that despite appeals, aid is trickling in it very slowly. tens of millions of dollars worth of food is urgently needed, but name -- but may not be available. chris morris is in islamabad. >> they have come down from the coastal regions of pakistan and

duncan kennedy, bbc news, rome. >>> it is already the world's biggest arts festival, but this year there are more performers and shows than ever before, nearly 2500. it is all just getting under way. >> it is claimed there are over 21,000 performers here. some may make it. >> buy tickets to the shows. >> most will not. in gloomy times, edinburgh offers hope. >> edinburgh is the place to be in august. the center of the entertainment industry moves from london to edinburgh. >> the scale is startling -- more than 2400 different shows, 40,000 performances in three weeks. they make 75 million pounds per year from this, and performers know it is a chance to show what they have. >> i just love the audience so much. i just want to get back to that kind of input from the people. the whole city is absolutely blazing with energy and an appetite for the theater. that is what the people come for from all over the world. >> of course, there is no quality control here. >> let's not kid around, some of the stuff is good, and you never forget it for all the right reasons, but there are moments of my life

kennedy's west virginia campaign and helped to launch the peace corps. charlie peters t is so good to you have with us. >> it's great to be with you, judy. >> woodruff: one thing that comes across here is this outsized personality and his ability to get what he needed. what he wanted politically. persuasive, ca joeled, intimidated people. where did that phenomenon political ability come from? >> well, his father was a politician. his father was a populist politician who anticipated johnson, he fought the klan back when the ku klux klan was very, very powerful in texas. so his father had political courage. and his father was just, was a natural politician who was elected to the-- he served eight years in the texas legislature. >> woodruff: and you write that johnson was able to accomplish incredible things. >> only fdr rivals his legislative accomplishment. and so that ranks him with the greatest presidents. >> woodruff: civil rights and medicare. >> the voting rights act in 1965 has changed this country. obama would not be president without the voting ri

i was detailed to senator kennedy's office. i worked on the immigration bill. when it was time to go back to dhs -- i decided i needed to be more engaged in the public debate. there's some things you cannot do as a public servant that you can do on the outside. that's how i ended up at the immigration policy center. we're all about trying to provide the kind of facts and information that helped shape the debate in the way that it supports the idea that immigration is important to america. we are part of the american immigration council, formally known as the american immigration law foundation. we work very closely with lawyers, including one of the sponsors of tonight's events. when i talk about compehensive immigration reform to people, i often like to move away from the movie analogy to the game analogy. think about it as a rubik's cube. if you get one side right, it probably means the other sites are screwed up. you cannot think about immigration as the one issue. there are so many that interact with each other. we often focus on legalization because it's s

and if you look at the history there is a good likelihood that justice anthony kennedy will say that prop 8 was unconstitutional. >> reporter: we must know judge walker has made his decision but has not released it. we do expect that release to be within the next couple of hours and the judge's decision will be released between 1:00 and 3:00. reporting live, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >> okay, thanks, jade. >>> well, stay with ktvu channel 2 news and ktvu.com for breaking news on that court ruling. we are going to bring it to you today on air and on line when it happens this afternoon. >>> a long time gay rights advocate is hoping his research will prove that proposition 8 won because of confused voters. in a report out today david fleischer says voters reacted to anti-gay tv commercials like this one called princess, it claims that same sex marriage would be taught in public schools if proposition 8 failed and shows a girl handing her mother a book about one prince marrying another prince. fleischer is hoping to disapprove the idea that the measure won because of huge supp

so it is a shame that senator kennedy has passed away and it is a shame that so has senator mccain. [laughter] neither of those individuals are still there. but we should resurrect the proposals they had in terms of family immigration. it has created huge problems. the backlog of family immigration has contributed to undocumented immigration, family separation. it is counter to the family values that the nation counts. to me, it is a no-brainer clear the backlog. -- the nation touts. >> cindy, in advising the immigration rights committee, for advising them on cir, who needs to be heard, which forces need to be lifted up? >> i could take professor hing's sarcastic way of looking at it -- just kidding. [laughter] i hope my other congressional colleagues do not kill me about sang this but i think it is important to keep your congressional office into an with what is important to you. i could not agree more with the two speakers. i think you have to be an optimist to be working on this issue, on this job, but i am with prof. hang in that we are scared with the flip side is. right now we

the conservatives are scalia, thomas, and alito with kennedy often the swing vote. in missouri today, mothers and fathers got the kind of phone call ever parent dreads-- their children were involved in a terrible accident. they were aboard two buses carrying high school students from st. james to an amusement park outside st. louis. just 10 miles from their destination the buses slammed into the wreckage of an earlier accident. one of the children on the buses was killed, dozens more injured. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: it's an annual trip the band members look forward to all summer. >> it was going to be a good day and it turned into such a terrible day. >> reporter: two buses, the first one filled with girls, the second with boys, were headed for six flags amusement park when they were caught in a horrific collision, a chain- reaction crash, witnesses say, that happened in the blink of an eye. >> i seen it, but i didn't see it, it happened so fast. >> reporter: the highway patrol sais a semi-truck traveling east slowed as it approached a road destruction

because kennedy. >> eleanor there and with sotomayor there, is that why? >> kennedy is going to go with the liberals and he is going to lose because the supreme court likes federal power. he generally likes federal power. >> oh. i agree and i think the governors will be quietly relieved because if the court doesn't swing that way, they are going to be stuck with a voter backlash. what people realize, hey you are taking away the healthcare that was directed toward the states here. so i suspect that's what is going to happen. >> i th >>> issue two, republican would be's. ♪ >>> yes, i do. at night hearing, hail to the chief. >> the ranking of this list is from gallop poll data. the host of this program did not have anything to do with the probability ranking of these possible candidates for the republican presidential nomination 2012. question. why do experience credibility and crust worthiness count so much with the gop voters? pat. >> experience, trustworthiness, i would expect they would count with all voters, john. >> this particular year. >> what they wa

the robert f kennedy school kicks off its inaugural school year in los angeles next month.he k through 12 complex will house 4200 students and comes with a $578 million price tag. it sits on the land once home to the ambassador hotel will be robert f kennedy was assassinated in 1968. >> wow. that one with the football field out front or that's just entry way? >> amica almost built a football stadium for that. >> but they don't have a team down there. >> true. >> it is true, isn't itst. >> david letterman

[applause] >> is always a treat to be introduced by kennedy, would you agree?laughter] i want to keep this short and sweet. bloviating is encouraged on the floor of the united states senate. i take part in that on occasion or two but i am not the main event hear bertha want to ignore our great dnc leader, gov. tim kaine whose leadership is so sharp and is quite a contrast to his counterpart at the republican national committee. [applause] in turn, i also want to recognize our wonderful state party chair, pat lawes, whose leadership has been steady [applause] and thoughtful and i think you would agree that is quite a contrast with our counterpart at the republican party here in colorado. i will not get into name calling. today, i will introduce two young man who have given -- i will shout and. i will introduce two young man. i want to emphasize talented who have given a great deal to our party and more importantly the public service for colorado. i could not help but think about a famous speech that the of or roosevelt delivered 100 years ago and i want to share