lewis powell knocks on the door, a young guy, tall. how did the get access? >> this is a clever thing booth did. he gave powell a little box or a vial and said it was medicine from the doctor. the young black servant was quite new, inexperienced, and not at all alive to the security aspects. as best we know, between the door and seward's bedroom door, the only other person powell meets is frederick seward. frederick is a bright young man, but no match for powell. >> what time of night was this? >> almost exactly the moment booth over at the theater is walking into lincoln's box. hopefully, the viewers can look at the picture of seward post- assassination attempt. that picture was taken in roughly 1871, a couple years afterward. even before that, the scars were more marked and horrible. seward was probably wearing some sort of an increment to keep his job in place in order to heal properly. that implement probably had some wires. not terribly thick, but the wire may well have deflected the blade and helped along with growing out of bed and the darkness. >> how

first outlined in the lewis powell memo a memo written for the chamber of commerce a force which has grown too strong and ugly in our politics today are you few months before nixon appointed paul to the supreme court but that memo is the blueprint for the right wing seizure of the courts and other institutions in our society and i think mitt romney and robert bork at his side would use that blueprint very assiduously and carefully to undertake an even larger expansion of the courts and other institutions katrina some are concerned that it may even go beyond that would that we could see the court rolled back ninety nine hundred sixty or one hundred fifty but to nine hundred thirty six to the year before the court started a green with franklin roosevelt and when the court was claiming the child labor laws were a violation of the right to contract unions didn't have legal rights these kind of no i think tom you were witnessing a moment very comparable to the moment when the supreme court in the roosevelt era tried to invalidate some of the key civilizing advances legal about advances of

. >> host: lewis powell and william rehnquist come on the supreme court in january 1972.about the role in his own selection when it comes to washington where we left off and comes with richard kleindienst beard is an assistant attorney general at the department of justice and starts having a hand in selection for supreme court nominees and lo and behold and fall of 1971, he becomes one. just go rehnquist is the person that the justice department put in charge by and large abetting the nixon administration's nominees and his record on this is very mixed i have to say. >> host: who he is abetting successfully. >> guest: and he let them slip through, good or bad he is taking the fall for and responsibility for. as i mentioned, richard nixon had come on to the presidency with a commitment to appoint conservative southerners to the court. it's hard for us to even think about this today. but nixon was a complex guy in his own right. and so, rehnquist here in the department of justice is now supposed to be helping him find these guys. the very first two vacancies, first to nomin

lewis when talking about cyber. he is our secretary of state today. o we have the ceo of the oil company, secretary of state, and we also have benjamin powell, he's theer, wilmer hale, general counsel of the office of director of national intelligence, he also served in the air force and has worked for the fbi. he's done it all, and he's going to be the director of national intelligence. [inaudible conversations] >> yes. so, and janet was saying, janet napolitano was saying we didn't have dhs, but the role of dhs will also be fbi's. the stage wasn't so big, you're going to play both roles today. okay. so i'm going to lay out the scenario, and then i'm going to turn it over to our national security reporter, she will be the moderator for this, asking them questions. and here we go. of so the morning, it's the day after thanks giving. the people are not paying too much attention. they want to go out and shop, it's a low day. the ceo of a large oil company is notified at 8 a.m. that an unknown computer virus has shut down 40,000 computers across the oil company. okay? this has wiped out its data, and it's rendered the machines unbootable. the key busine