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she feelsery strongly -- i thinkfrom what i have read, about speaking tooung lawrs andoung people in particular. not only about the law, bu about what you can aceve with hard work. her opening statements, it will be fun to listen to he judy. it will tl us i think a couple of thin about he one, how articulate she? and give as you littlewindow to her temperament. and ten substantively, is sh going to try to dress any of the concerns that have heard by the republin senators and any of the issues that the democratic setors have raised. so, it's going to be ite interesti to see -- i always find it -- it's -- it tends to set the tone for the hearis that come, a good ening statemenor bad opening atement. >> woodruff: and we know that she, like everyther nominee to e supreme court, has spt a lot of tme preparing forhis hearing, going thugh what you sa they call muer boards -- >> yes. >> woodruff: literally friendly lawys, who are advising the whte house on thisomination o are bically throwing tgh questions at her. marsia, we are going to tak a break. our pbs "newshou coverage. we're going to

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mayor michael blmberg: >> now, i'm not a lawr or a constitutional scholar, t i think t standard should does she app the law based on rational legal asoning, and is she within the bnds of mainstream thinkg on issues of basic civil rits? and on bo questions, i think the aner is unequivocally yes. >> reporte manhattan district attorney robert rgenthau hired somayor upon her graduation from yale law school he was ask by illinois democrat dicdurbin about his decision to re her, and sotomayor's now famous "wi latina" remarks. >> mr.orgenthau, when you were aleed about her skills in law school, did ty tell you that they had an opportunity he for you to hire a wise latina lawyer? that what you were in the market for? >> absolutely not. i mean, i took one lookt her resume-- summa c laude at princeton, "yale w journal", and i said. and then i talked to her, and thought she was commonsse and judgment and illingness to work. the fact that she was lato or latina had solutely nothing to do with it. >> reporte with sotomayor's testimony now finished, senate vote on her nomination could very welcome b

who was the "wall street journal's" counsel for many years, bob sack, one of the great fir amendment lawrs in america,ho i spoke to about her well before she was eve nominated beuse her name had been circulated. he is very... he likes her a lot. he says she's anincredibly lid judge. she's very collegl, all the ories came outbout how she doest get along with people he said "iet along wi her great." >> one of the rean appointe sa she has a sparkling personalities. she organizes nners. when things goo you have to, she's e person who diffuses it. so if she'srickly, i wasn't able to find people who say that on the recor >> she's prickly wi lawyers, which is not exactly sothing that'soing to hurt her any politica.. >> uh-uh. >>ose: thank you very much. when we come back, we'llalk more about judicial philosophy and later on we'llalk about the c.i.a. which is getting a lot of attention in washington these days. back in a moment. >> rose: we continue wit our look at the sotomayor confirmaon with two people who know the sreme court very well. lter dellinger, who served as asstant attorney general du

more liberal direction, talking abouteforming the judiciar shortening one wyer's sentence, a ucos lawr surprisingly. making moves... giving interviews to beral up in b making moves that are decidedly unputin le. and i think naviging that terrain fobarack obama is going to be something of a chlenge as well bause i don't even thinkhey know moscow exactly what's goingn. >> rose: explain to us the retionship between where it's aded and putin and medvedev. >> throughout russian history bureaucrats have looked the kremlin as the seat o power. and medvedev sits the kremli and they d't like thisecause they don't know ose rear end to kiss cause that's theway e system works. do i line up with himr him? he sd this, he said that, what am i supposed to thi? they don't like that uncertainty but again it's rated... claire's been sent on this, i go to the ban on this o there's pfound division within the russianolitical class about whether or not to try join the west. ybe there is no east for them to go to. maybambassador pickeri is right. but ty think there is. at's the importa thing. and medvedev and

we have a lot of lawrs dealing with iraqi judges and mistry types, but w haven't actually reacd out to students d the desire of these law students to rt of see and touch americans was reay telling. same with these kids who are lening english. they have never talked to an american... to anative speak of engli and theyust wanted to get more from us. and i s very pleased th within days of my trip there we wereble to send some people to gin this relationshipith a small unersity. and wh you talk aboutontact, when you talk out reacng out to people, again, you'v got to do it one person at time, one mayor at a te, one student a a time, it's ally... it takes time but we're gng to get there. >> rose: is ayallah sistani playing a potive role? >> his, he is. he is a very rever shi'a cleric whoas essentially... ring the whole iue of american tops as they were negotiatg the so-called security agreent he says american troops shld be treated ke guests. and anyonenows about ar society knows guests is the mos exalted position i mean, being a guest, it's not like you mother-in-law staying with you, is a