goodwin liu. he is here before the senate judiciary committee. this will be a test case of president obama's ability to win confirmation for a liberal appeals court nominee. around one is today. -- around one is today. live coverage here on c-span. -- round one is today. live coverage here on c-span. >> i would like to welcome everyone to this morning's here in. -- hearing. we have just been joined by the chairman. mr. chairman, -- >> it is your hearing. >> we will hear from professor goodwin liu who has been nominated for a seat on the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit. professor goodwin liu is a nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and educational policy. he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law. before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. foll

goodwin liu. i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning -- he goes on to say that, "i argued that welfare rights are conceived as an act of interpreting the understandings of particular welfare goods as they are manifested. it goes on to say that welfare rights reflect the contingent character of our society's collective judgment rather than in the tidy logic of comprehensive moral theory. i think that is a matter of which we should talk about. i hope that we wil

goodwin liu. i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning of social good in our society. he goes on to say that "i argue that the judicial recognition of welfare rights is best the lead as an act of interpreted shared understanding of particular welfare and good as they are manifested in our institution, law and the ball in faculties." he goes on to say that use the kabul welfare rights represent the collective judgments rather than the tidy logic of instant moral theory. well, i think that

goodwin liu.i think it says something about his approach to the law, his philosophy of the law and we will be looking into that today. i will be asking questions about a number of things. there are many, many things that the professor has written. one in his stanford law review article of november of 2008 "rethinking constitutional welfare rights," he states that my thesis is the welfare rights depends on socially situated modes of reasoning that appear not to transcendent moral principles of an ideal society, but to the culturally and historically contingent meaning of social good in our society. he goes on to say that "i argue that the judicial recognition of welfare rights is best the lead as an act of interpreted shared understanding of particular welfare and good as they are manifested in our institution, law and the ball in faculties." he goes on to say that use the kabul welfare rights represent the collective judgments rather than the tidy logic of instant moral theory. well, i think that

circuit. >> holman: liu won support from committee chairman patrick leahy and other democrats. they accused republicans of being unfair. >> let's leave these straw men kind of complaints out of it. we have so many people sitting on our courts of appeals, nominated by republican presidents, supported by both republicans and democrats, who do not begin to have the kind of background that you do. >> holman: the hearing was considered a test for the larger fight to come, when the president nominates someone for the new vacancy on the supreme court. >> toyota announced a new recall. the auto maker said it will check 600,000 siena minivans for corrosion in a cable. the affected minivans are sold in the u.s. from 1998 to 2010 model years. for the record, toyota is an underwriter of the newshour. new information has surfaced on the destruction of cia videotapes that showed water- boarding. the 92 tapes involved terror suspect abu zubaydah. internal emails released last night said former cia director porter goss agreed with the 2005 decision to get rid of the tapes. they said the videos

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i know you are going to meet with liu separately. >> whenever you would like to do, obviously we cando. i can probably in about no more than 10 minutes and may be less than that conclude the questions that i have if that would better fit into the schedule. i and is going to try and truncate of this. [laughter] how about that for a test? we do not want to approach cases with a preconceived notion, do we? whatever you want to do, but i think i can fairly quickly gets through this. >> no more than 10 minutes and then we move on. >> that is acceptable. let me ask a question that i asked a previous nominee. the president had talked about using two different analogies about judging, talking about the type of nominee he would nominate. the first was the first 25 miles of a 26 mile marathon. the critical ingredient of the cases is supplied by what is in the judge's heart. do you believe the law only takes a the first 25 miles of the marathon and the last mile has to be decided by what is and that the judge's heart attacks -- judge's heart? >> that is a colorful analogy, but i do not know if

guest: liu is only 39 years old.some people think he will be someone in the future elected to the supreme court. and so there's some worry on the part of the g.o.p. that, goodness, they think he's liberal, and he liberally interprets the constitution, and now we're going to get him on the federal bench and then eventually he'll end up on the supreme court. now they don't to want see that happen. as to whether this is going to be really kind of a precursor to the supreme court fight, i'd say yes and no. you know, it depends on what obama selects, it really depends. and that's how the republicans are going to decide whether they're going have enough willpower. they tend to not do that. sometimes they call that a nuclear option, really filibuster supreme court nomination. that's a very big deal. but i think what you're going to see is, again, this argument over the interpretation of the constitution. now, when sonia sotomayor was under grilling from the senate judiciary committee, they questioned her on all kinds of thi

breaking out on non-partisan lines over the nomination of liu. even a bigger battle the one to replace john paul stevens. chair oh line shively has more from washington. >> if the committee's debate over an appellate court judge is any indication, the supreme court hearings could get feisty. liu is a berkeley professor who is obama's choice for the court. republicans blasted him on him and saying he was a activist judge. they took issue that liu gave in 2006 during alito's confirmation hearing. he said the judge's record and visions where police may shoot and unarmed boy to stop him from running away from stolen purse on -- black men may be sentenced to death by an all white jury. >> would you acknowledge that temperate language. i see it as vicious and racially charged. >> reporter: democrats rushed to his defense praising his record. >> i cannot in my time on in this committee quite so young that has done so much. i have great respect for that. >> the senate judiciary committee has to schedule a vote on him before the vote goes to the senate fl

. >> bill: was it good win liu the judge? >> no it wasn't him. guy decided to raise this as an issue. not one person complained about good friday. one guy said i think it's objectionable. call it spring holiday. some moron with city council sent out email to everybody saying oh it's called spring holiday now. then of course the calls come in and city council called in and said it's not called spring holiday. >> bill: take it to court and judge liu were to rule he would have said -- >> blessed winter instead of merry christmas. >> i'm the nut right here. megyn kelly, check her out 1:00 p.m. every day. >> joe biden wants my money, your money, everybody's money. and raquel welch talks about elvis. you've got to try it, >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. the great american news quiz both martha maccallum and steve doocy are spring breaking cheryl casone playing for from arizona. and jamie colby representing john from hollywood, california. if you want in on the action sign up on bill o'reilly.com. this is huge for both of you. >> yes. arizona

we know there's a lot of republican support for goodwin liu, we're going to watch this procedure carefully it's always good to have you with us. >> thank you. bill: he's another headline, president obama ordering most hospitals in america to honor visitation rights to gay and lessan members, saying same sex partners must get the same privileges as married couples. melanie wilkes is whot the -- is at the white house. >> this allows patients to say who has visitation rights and who can make medical decisions for them and obviously, one community 's group this applies to is gays and lesbians. the president issued this statement last night as he was wrapping up a fund-raiser in miami, it directs the health and human services secretary to draft rules requiring hospitals that receive medicare and medicaid funding, which is most of them, to respect the rights of patients in designating their visitors. of course it could apply to anybody who prefers a close friend say to a family member, but the president did acknowledge that, quote, it uniquely feats gay and best lan -- lesbian americans who are

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senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on judicial nominations including law professor goodwin liuto be a u.s. circuit judge on the ninth sisht. on c-span 2, senators continue the examineation of the role of the banking regulators. >> this weekend the first of three british election debates. for the first time prime minister gordon brown, david cameron and nick clegg will face off in u.s.-style debates. watch them in their entirety for three consecutive weekends. >> two senators yesterday threatened to subpoena the pentagon and justice department as part of an investigation into last year's fort hood shootings. joe lieberman and susan collins lead the homeland security committee. this is a little less than a half-hour. >> good afternoon. thanks for being here. this afternoon senator collins and i want to provide you with an update on the senate homeland security investigation of the murder of 13 americans by major nidal hassan at fort hood and also to scuzz our frustrated efforts to obtain information to answer critical questions about why -- to discuss our frustrated efforts to ob

wendy liu, head of china research at rbs, talking to us about all things china. of course luca silipo will continue to stay with us. let's hop over to india. ayesha far id today joins us live from mumbai or the india business report. >> been a good start to this monday morning. holding on to the 5300 mark. the key gainers, results are expected just about any time and we are expecting to really come in with the kind of copper realizations. the company, and of course the revenues coming in, as well. two thumbs up coming in for industries. the numbers just came out, almost a three-fold increase this time around. nonetheless the stock has taken a bit of a beating from profit looking actually taking in almost 105% jump is what they've seen this time around. the e-1 and e-2 segments and the export growth clocking in significantly this time around. a bit of disappointment coming in on defining margins. the numbers came out on friday, forced the market closed. currently down by almost a percent and a half. problems again with the statin drug so currently the stock is dow

the first half was for the ninth circuit court of appeals good win liu is testifying. this hearing is for the district courts. richard mark gergel for south carolina, michelle childs for south carolina, and also catherine eagles the middle district of north carolina. senator kyl of arizona is getting ready to get underway. >> this is the senate judiciary committee. the acting chair for this hearing, it appears they were going to wrap up with nominee liu and move on to the district court nominees. diane feinstein heading. live coverage on c-span. [no audio] [no audio] >> the hearing will resume. if i indicated, we will begin with the ranking the members. -- with the ranking members. if i might say something procedure is a really to do two rounds for an appellate judge. i want everyone to have an opportunity to ask questions. i suggest to the nominee that we will do just whatever it takes to have the questions asked and answered. i would beg the forbearance of the other four nominees although i suspect you do not mind not being in the hot seat. senator? >> thank you so m

. >> i don't total liu dissent, but what i do want to bring up, melissa mentioned the fact we have all those rebates that have come out. it was a big deal for them in the u.s. this quarter. but beyond that a lot of what you're seeing is the foreclosures that are coming through. and eventually that is going to go away. at this point i believe it's $5200 to rehab a house so you can move into it after it's been foreclosed upon. at some point that's going to wane. do you really think you get into the high beta consumer names at this point based on that? >> no, all i'm saying, patty, is that you can have this type of performance at a company like this without the conversation and the talk about higher rates. if you're going to invest in stocks, you've got to be concerned and you've got to focus on owning the names that will participate in a higher interest rate environment. this will be what people are focuses on that. you cannot have an economic recovery without the fed starting to tighten. watch that. that will be where people will focus on the next several weeks. >> gary kaminsky, ti ver

correspondent richard liu, the last we heard, the rescuers were on what they call man trips.arger vehicles. >> that's right. larger vehicles and this is a dangerous situation for these folks here, robin, but we hope now they're about two and a half hours in, they will get to the location, that they are planning to get to. these man trips, what they are is a railcars and rescue teams will ride during the first part of their mission in these. these man trips take them and their heavy equipment close to the blast site where they will have to get off and then, robin, they take all of this heavy equipment along with the breathing equipment that they need by hand with them. they could be at that blast site very, very soon. >> right now we still have the ability to move on these man trips. they'll come to where they have to get off and start moving by foot which will slow it down. the bottom line is safety has been the order, if you will, and it's been what's been the driving force, is not to put the rescue workers in any type of danger. >> robin, it's important to remember here as

wants him for one of the most influential courts in the united states but the gop now says that goodwin liuething that o'clock be overlooked, the leading republican on the senate ju dacrary committee set to make news when he joins us live. >>> tea party groups coming together today as we have never seen before, former vice president dan quayle has a warning for them heading into the midterm elections. you'll hear it from the state today