actually, more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 than have been arrests by air marshals. this is an agency that's grown by just 33 before 9/11 to over 3,000 now. now t.s.a. is doing at airports like what other local law enforcements are doing and many are doing on aviation security are more than enough. we need to realize that we cannot make everyone totally safe even if we spent the entire federal budget on security. . i have chaired the aviation ski for six years, but as one former official told me, this air marshal agency is guilding the lilly. the "wall street journal" said in an editorial a few months after 9/11, quote, we would like to suggest a new post-september 11 rule for congress. any bill with the word security should get double the public scrutiny and four times the normal weight should all become law under the phony guise of terrorism. that was from the "wall street journal." and they noticed every department and agency was requesting additional funds and using the word security to justify unnecessary appropriations. everyone on both sides of the aisle would

the federal air marshal system is operating. when you compare it to israeli security, those are two of the critical pieces of in-flight security in place today. the physical security on board is dramatically better than pre- 9/11. host: to our republican line in new york. caller: i have one common. ever since we have all this hassle at the airports i have just stopped flying. i am about to do the same about not going to canada because of all the security there. sorry, but iyou or fencing me in and taking away my freedoms. guest: one of the problems we have had is because we have previously had people show up at checkpoint anonymously, it gives us the feeling that everyone is treated as terrorists. that is extremely unpopular . this will givet.s tsa the chance to change screening in focus on people who are high threats. it should make the security process smoother. host: the business travel news wrote last week about the house passage of the transportation security administration, the authorization, claiming the bill would return

chief justice roberts shares justice marshall's view. as chief justice roberts observed in the years ago, if the court and marshals era issued important cases the with this court has over the past 30 years, we would not have a supreme court today of the sort that we have. that suggests that what the court has been doing has been eroding, to some extent, the capital that marshall built up. i think that the court is also right for a similar refocus as an institution because if it does not, is more to lose its credibility and legitimacy as the institution. of course, the chief justice roberts was a sword in a return to the notion that the supreme court's because an institution. -- court speak as an institution. this morning, we will begin our session with an interview of the chief justice by our former chief judge. then, following that, we will move into our traditional panel which is moderated by professor dick howard to discuss the supreme court term. there are still three cases look court to hand down. i understand that we are looking to

one of the things that have notice in many occasions is that the marshals preboard. we have these healthy young men or young women wearing hawaiian shirts or otherwise baggy clothes that actually board the plane into bands of the other passengers and not even handicapped or anything like that. it is kind of a clear indication and i have no idea if they want to keep a low price file why it is that you see the gate agents letting them on the head of time. many flights from washington and other parts of the world i see these guys or dowels who are, in fact, given in this special privilege and two anybody who is observant i imagine somebody who had, wanted to study the system very carefully, and the observant people with bad ideas could spot one of these people fairly easily because of that. >> host: we will get a response, thank you. >> guest: that is a very good question and answer is because there is more than one federal air marshal on the flight and sometimes it seems to have some money on the head of time and was other people's reaction to that individual, that the

marshall's decision in marguerite reflected a decision to pull back. jeffersonian had legislature and said that their efforts would be blocked. that is the central political issue of the day and marshall does not even get to it. he pulls back results on a much narrower ground. so there are situation where the court actually has legal issues of great political significance. but i think it is important to look and see if you can do that on a narrow basis, and if you do not, it is important to recognize there will be huge consequences. >> i want to return to a more personal vein before taking questions from the audience. during confirmation hearings, i remember that senator schumer asked you what your favorite movie was, and i think he responded dr. zhivago. that is my favorite movie to. -- that is my favorite, too. i am sure you have profound reasons for liking it. i wonder if he might tell us why you responded to the senator by saying that it was your favorite movie, and what you like so much about it? >> it is my favorite movie. i was under oath. and i

marshall's decision in marbury reflect add decision to pull the court back. the central issue from the jeffersonians had. the white house, the legislature, they said our efforts will be blocked by the supreme court. here is the crisis issue. they're trying to pack the courts with federalists. that's the central political issue of the day. marshall doesn't even get to it. he pulls back results on a much narrower ground. there are situations where the court obviously has to resolve the legal matters that are of great significance. i think it is important to look and see if you can do that on a narrow legal basis. as tawny did not, i think it's important to realize there will be huge consequences if you do leap ahead and involve the court in politics. >> i want to return to a somewhat more personal vain before we take questions from the audience. i remember during your confirmation hearings that senator schumer asked you what your favorite movie was, and i think you responded " "dr. shivago" and that's my favorite movie, too, but i think it's because julie chris

in fact more have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshalls. we now have approximately 4,000 in the federal air marshall service, yet they have made an average of 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. this comes out to an average of about one arrest a year per 1,000 employees. let me make that clear. there are thousands of employees not making one arrest per year each, they are averaging slightly over four arrests each year by the entire agency. in other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. let me repeat that, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. professor of the university of pennsylvania wrote last year about the money feeding frenzy of the war on terror. he wrote this, nearly seven years after september 11, 2001, he wrote this last year, what accounts for the vast discrepancy between the terrorist threat facing america and the scale of our response? why absent any evidence of a serious terror threat is a war on terror so enormous, so all encompassing, and still expanding the fundamental answer is that al q

when thurgood marshall was nominated he faced stiff opposition. it did not make any difference he graduated first in his class from howard university law school where he had been lead counsel for the naacp legal defense fund. he had all kinds of hostile questions to his confirmation hearing. his nomination was stalled for some time. he was the solicitor general of the united states. carafe his career as a supreme advocate he successfully argued and won a remarkable 29 out of 30 -- 29 out of 32 cases before the supreme court. most lawyers dreamed they might actually have one case there. he won 29 out of 32. when president johnson nominated him to be the first african- american supreme court justice, the president knew it was the right thing to do and the right time to do it. president obama has all of that tradition. it is long overdue to have such a jurist to our highest court, not only her experience as a prosecutor but her experience in private practice. she has served on a federal court longer than any nominee to the supreme court and 100 years

when thurgood marshall was nominated to the second circuit, he faced stiff opposition. it did not make any difference that he graduated first in his class of harvard law school or that he had naacp legal defense fund. he had all kinds of hostile questions at this confirmation hearing, and his nomination was stalled for some time. he was then appointed solicitor general of the united states he successfully argued and won a remarkable 29 auto -- out of 32 cases before the supreme court. most lawyers dream they might have one case there. he won 29 of 32, and when president johnson nominated him to be the first african-american supreme court justice common the president knew it was the right time to do that. president obama has followed the tradition. as long as we -- know as long as we add not only her experience in private practice, she has served on the court longer than any nominee to the supreme court in 100 years. as the first lady said, not only do our believe she is prepared to serve all americans, as the supreme court justice, i believe the country is more than rea

general marshall did. john showed up as a surprise to his dad. marshall arranged that john should have his furlough after his graduation in europe with his dad. it was typical of marshall to have that kind of thoughtfulness. c-span: "the atlantic wall" -- these are your words -- "must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." first, describe it. >> guest: well, it's hard to describe briefly. it was the greatest construction project of all time. this was way bigger than the great wall of china, way, way bigger than the maginot line. people who go to europe today aren't aware of it because so much of it was underground, and some of it had been blown over with sand, but it's still there. it will be there forever. c-span: and it goes from where to where? >> guest: it goes from the north sea down to the spanish border, and at every conceivable site of a landing -- that is, any place where the cliff wasn't absolutely vertical -- they had out to sea underwater obstacles with mines on them to blow up the landing craft at

thank you, will marshall. [applause] >> to the chairs of the d.l.c., dick gephardt, chuck, sam nunn, president clinton, joe lieberman, ever,bayh, tom vilsack, harold ford jr., thank you for all you have done and for those still here thank you for your perseverance. i appreciate it very much. so many people and so many of you have supported the d.l.c. and p.p.i. over the years. and, believe me, i appreciate it very much. i appreciate every hard-earned dollar you gave us and i thank you one and all. and thanks as well to the hundreds of people who worked or interned for the d.l.c. your service has made an incredible difference and i hope you are proud of it. i'm very proud of what you contributed. and i just want to say a special word about bruce reed and thank him, the next leader of the d.l.c. the d.l.c. could not be in better hands. bruce reed is an idea man's idea man. he possesses a rare blend of brilliance, humor and humility. to be honest, after his eight years in the white house, i never thought i could

when the rugged marshall was nominated, he was facing stiff opposition and it did not make any difference that he was first in his class, where he was part of the legal defense fund. he had all kinds of hostile questions, he was appointed solicitor general. he was the winner of 29 out of 32 cases before the supreme court. other lawyers thought that they may have one case, he had 29 out of 32. and when he was nominated as the first supreme court justice who was african-american, he said this was the right thing to do and the right time to do this. president obama is following us. he has nominated her to the highest court. she has served on the federal court longer than anyone else in the supreme court. i believe that the city -- i believe that the country is prepared to see this woman do this. the visions that we see, this is the time to come together. this would be wonderful to see this nomination in america. thank you. someone compared her to the head of the klu klux klan. this is shameful. i remember when thurgood marshall was nominated, they asked him if he was prejudiced against white

chief justice marshall worried that the supreme court's role in the tripartite government would not be fulfilled if the court continued issuing multiple opinions. one from each justice. as was the custom in england at the time. he thought it important that the court speak unanimously as an institution. his strategy for achieving this basic and it was a fundamental strategy, he conference cases after dinner. after serving wine which he personally purchased and brought to the court. in that state of euphoria, the court was able to work through the problems and issue and resolve differences and issue opinions that were for the large part in natomas. in retrospect, the chief justice was impressively successful during a particularly active period from 1811 to 1823. the supreme court decided 457 case of which 23437 were unanimous. as chief justice roberts observed a few years ago, and i am not quoting, if the court in marshall's era had issued decisions the way this court has over the past 30 years, we would not have a supreme court today of the sort that we have. that suggests that wouldwha

i just wanted that one point. >> i've always been curious about george marshall. he threatened to resign, and then he didn't resign. and he's such a large name in american history. do we know anything about his thinking? was the anti-semitic? what were his -- what were his thoughts why he opposed so much? >> some people felt he didn't have very strong feelings before he became secretary of state, but he was very influenced by the state department once he did become secretary of state, and kind of adopted their attitude towards the middle east and partition in israel. >> also, he had a long talk right before the leaders of the jewish agency going to vote in palestine whether to proclaim a jewish state. he had a long talk and he came to see him in his office and the text is available. and he gave him and allergies between his experience trying to negotiate between the nationalists and communists in china and the chinese civil war and the chinese army and how everything he believed collapsed as eight reality hit him in the face with the strength of mao's zombies and

i think there are thurgood marshall's. secondly, i was intrigued by chief justice's answer to questions about the phenomenon that all nine of the present justices came to the supreme court from the federal courts of appeals. that was unprecedented. i think the chief justice was nuanced suggesting that that masked the faxed -- the fact of professional background. but if you go to 1969, there were people on the warren court who work national figures with extensive experience before coming to the court. for warren, for black, one of the leading new deal senators, for a chief adviser to franklin roosevelt, parker goldberg, secretary of labor, secretary- general of the afl-cio. these were people in the newspapers and the press who were well known nationally before coming to the court. what difference it makes when they debate. do you want people or not to have political background? sabain the third thing that strs me is the democratic face of the court. in obvious ways, we had women on the court that we did not have in 1969. th

there are no brennans or thurgood marshalls on the court. secondly, i was impressed by chief justice's roberts answer to the question put to him a few minutes ago by the fen phenomenon that all nine of the present justices came to the supreme court from the federal courts of appeal. that is unprecedented. i think the chief justice was nuanced in suggesting that that actually masked the fact of the professional background of the nine were fairly disparate before they came to the appellate bench. if you go further back again, if you go back to 1969, there were people on the warren court who were major national political figures with extensive experience in politics before they ever came to the supreme court. earl warren as governor of california and vice presidential candidate, an hugo black had been one of the leading new deal senators and felix frankfurter as chief advisor to roosevelt, and arthur goldberg, secretary general of the afl-cio. i mean, these were people who were in the newspapers, in the press, well-known nationally before they

justice lewis powell made a comment reportedly that just having thurgood marshall in the proem made a difference in perspective. really surprising, perhaps scandalous, this it took until 1981 to have a woman on the supreme court. now there are only two. and when i was asked for recommendations for the current vacancy, i recommended four women. to say that a woman's point of view is different and valuable is really, really trite. when i was elected to the senate in 1980, senator kassebaum was the only woman in the chamber. senator hawkins was elected that year. now we have 15-plus and growing. and i think it's been a very great addition and improvement, a liberation here to have more women here. a liberation here to have more women here. and another woman wou plus there, if judge sotomayor is confirmed. and also the diversity on being hispanic is important. we live in a very diverse society. when you see that small supreme court chamber, you can see the intimacy and you can see the -- almost visualize the intellectual discussions and the powerhouses in that room, and how the really big

marshal service uses $65 million to operate its federal witness security program. it has an excellent track record. in all of its years in exis ens they have never been known to lose a witness, and at the same time they have the prosecutors in those cases have an 89% success rate. it is because of this inequity that i call upon my colleagues to give law enforcement the ability to protect the sanctity of our justice system and pass h.r. 1741, the witness security and protection grant program act. h.r. 1741 would help local law enforcement officers strengthen witness assistance and protect units -- protection units sending a very loud and clear message to criminals that our citizens and we in the congress of the united states of america will not be deterred by fear tactics like intimidation. speaking of intimidation, mr. speaker, in the city of baltimore we have a group that put out a -- two trailers entitled stop snitching. in one of those trailers i along with the state's attorney were threatened because we were standing up for this legislation and standing up for

marshall, he came out at the last minute without anybody knowing what he would do in that fatal momentfor recognition of the new jewish state of israel. [applause] >> well, thank you, alice, thank you, ron. just so that the audience knows how we'll proceed, i think we're going to have a discussion here on stage between the three of us for a few minutes and then turn it over to a question and answer session, which i'll moderate only to the extent that you keep your questions to the point. when we get to that. i wanted to begin -- alice, you mentioned one of the factors that was at work in truman's decision was this christian zionism. one of the things i found very y striking, though, in your book is two places where truman says something that is, i guess, out of character with what you would expect of a christian zionist or maybe not. at one point he's recorded in -- he's recorded as saying jesus christ couldn't please them when he was here on earth, referring to the jews so how could anyone expect that i would have any luck? [laughter] >> and then -- it's almost funny. later on you hav

. >> well, john marshall has come a long way, baby. i am glad to see you all here today. thank you so much, dr. markowitz, dean lynn, and all of the john marshall community for conferring this honorary degree on me this afternoon. i cannot tell you how deeply honored i am to receive such a distinguished award from what is a distinguished law school. you have worked hard, earned everything you have, and i'm very proud, as are all the members of the court. thank you, kevin, for that generous and gracious introduction. good afternoon it is so good to see all of you. thank you for letting me be part of this celebration, your celebration, said it marks the end of one part of your life and the exciting beginning of a new chapter. to the graduates, congratulations on your academic achievements and on the relationships that you have cultivated while here. i hope the connections he made at this school will forever in rich your lives. and to the parents and families, congratulations to you, too. some you should feel an accomplishment, because i know you have made many sacrifices to

thank you, will marshall. thank you, ginger and sarah and jenny and mark. and thank you, elizabeth. this is really all for you, after all. i would like to thank those who, like me, had the benefit of serving as chair of the dlc. they're all here, and have all been introduced. it is a club by want to be a part of. we were really breasts -- blessed in those early years. there is a really magnificent person who is going to speak after me that proves the dlc program. rachel, i am so proud of you. i'm glad you're representing the state and local officials. that was a really good movie. it had the virtue of being at least except for the stuff about me, true. i think secretary sebelius may be here. we were together at a previous event, and i'll have more to say about that in a minute. i loved getting involved with the dlc. for one thing, i was tired of getting beat. i am old enough now to remember what it was like to get beat over and over and over again. essentially, here is what happens to us. national elections and the standing of national political parties are determined by three thing

. >> irl bombardier learjet 500, shaquille o'neal serving as grand marshal.changed the right front tire for rafael matos during a pit stop demo prior to the race and then as the grand marshal does, shaq does the honors. >> texas motor speedway, are you ready? ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. >> can you imagine shaq in one of those indy cars? >> can you dig it? >> i don't think he would fit in. >> no. under 50 laps to go, under caution, ryan briscoe comes into the pits with helio castroneves in second but helio pits closer and he pits out taking the lead from his teammate. on the final lap, mr. castroneves, indy 500 winner a winner at texas motor speedway. teammate ryan briscoe finishes second. welcome to the family -- new jets head coach rex ryan met yankees skipper joe girardi before the game. a-rod had gone 43 at-bats without a homer. not anymore. that's off david price. price gave up only one earned run in 5 2/3 innings pitched. willie aybar off cc sabathia, three-run shot. rays up 5-3. cc eight innings, five runs, four earned, tied at 5-5 in the

it made possible the achievements that followed the liberation of europe, the marshall plan, the nato alliance, the shared prosperity and security that flowed from each. so much of the progress that would define the 20 sentry on both sides of the atlantic came down to a battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide. more particularly, it came down to the men who landed here, those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who were with us here today. perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, or why we still remember what happened on d-day. you are what we keep coming back. you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. you remind us that our future is not shaped by mere chance or circumstance. our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. it has always been up to us. you could have done what hitler believed he would do when you arrived here. in the face of a merciless assault from these cliffs, you could have idled

shaq the grand marshal for the bombardier learjet 500.ces the right front tire changer for rafael matos. the grand marshal duties. let's hear it. >> texas motor speedway, are you ready? ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. >> first time shaq's been at an indy race. just under 50 laps to go, pit stop under caution, ryan briscoe leads coming into the pit, helio castroneves in second but castroneves pits closer to pit out, he takes the lead from his teammate, helio takes the checkered flag. team penske finishes 1-2 in the race with ryan briscoe finishing second. castroneves the new winner, briscoe in second, scott dixon third. >> welcome to the family. jets head coach rex ryan meeting yankees skipper joe girardi before the yanks-rays game. a-rod breaks a scoreless tie in the second. 43 at-bats without a homer, hits his eighth off the year off david price. in the sixth, cc sabathia serves one to willie aybar. ayb bar's fourth of the year. 5-3 rays. cc, eight innings, five runs, four earned. 5-5 in the ninth, joe dillon, his third hit of

then secondly if it occurs at a jewish state created do become a threat to the success of the marshall plan because the arabs would cut off the oil supply to the west in europe would not have oil hence no reconstruction. then the soviets would gain entry into the middle east because they would say we have to come restore order. at that point* communist agents would get an excellent base which to extend subversive activities. the decision for partitioned says it is favorable to soviet objectives and to score a non-communist country. of the soviets would partition iraq, turkey and greece and said that more soviet space throw the world with peace and security of the near east would be over. now for the other domestic repercussion common this to, as my year can and it warned if not abandoned anti-semitism would prosper in the west and we would see a new anti-jewish education that would make it more difficult for jews to assimilate and they would appear "as the alien political factor. they warned the position of the issues would be greatly undermined as it becomes evident to the public is i

together, bill clinton, al, marshall, and bruce read or write the new orleans declaration which lays out a bold new governing philosophy for the new party. soon thereafter, clinton delivers a speech in cleveland the proposal to the forefront of national politics. later that year, clinton launches a presidential campaign as a different kind of democrat. >> we offer our people a new choice based on old values. we offer opportunity. we demand responsibility. we will build an american community again. we are, as democrats, a revitalized democratic party. [applause] >> in november, in is 12 long years of republican rule in -- he insists will long years as a republican rule and the white house. campaign, a transition, and the president, al becomes the conscience of the white house, and bruce reid goes to the white house as domestic policy adviser to the president. soon, a democrat agenda becomes national policy. the 100,000 cops program not only reduces violent crime, but puts to rest of the nation's perception that democrats are soft on crime. americorps reflects the party posing a commit

dawson, representative charles digs, malcolm x and thurgood marshall. so it is with that small introduction i start you to wonder, hopefully, about dr. howard to the point that you'll want to buy the book. i don't want to tell you too much of it because i want you to read it. david? >> i sort of i want to reiterate one point there. this is a great story. and not because of our writing. i think it almost told itself, you know, here's a guy who started out children of tobacco twisters in rural kentucky and became a prominent surgeon and civil rights leader and entrepreneur. now, if anyone would qualify as a renaissance man in black history i think it would have to be trm howard or he would have to be high on the list. he was not only one of the wealthiest blacks in mississippi, he was a successful surgeon but he was also a pioneering civil rights leader. and he was a pioneering civil rights leader in the belly of the beast. that's the mississippi delta. probably the worst place to be a civil rights leader in the early 1950s but four years before the montg

larry marshall is my colleague at northwestern who went on to do 6 of the cases, 11 of the cases. then you have halas' kim leading the illinois coalition for the abolition of the death penalty, of 1have the lawyers, the police lieutenant who is responsible od athe torture of 100 black men outside chicago, total impunity tier a 25 year period. these activities came together so that 6 years after this demonstration the republican governor of illinois put a moratorium on execution. >> don't forget the writers of the tribute. >> so much credit to go around for how this happened in a short period of time but it is an example we should remember because it would have been unimaginable in 1991. it was unimaginable, no one could have said here is the strategy and here is how we are lic,. to do it, but shipping the way, doing some things, speaking broadly to the public, assuming people can be convinced by the fact, not just by your passion, and uniting as many forces as possible, it is an extraordinary example. tveryone in illinois is happy we ane not resumed execution. it is a wide consens

two of the other two were larry marshall and his wife michelle.y marshall is my colleague at northwestern who went on to do six of the cases or 11 of the cases. at the same time you have people like alice kin leading the illinois coalition for the sÑsta away, doing things, speaking broadly to the public,. assuming people can be convinced be the facts, not just by your passion, and then uniting as many forces as possible. and i think it's an extraordinary example. everybody in illinois is happy that we have not resumed executions. not everybody but almost everybody really. so wide consensus and the best penalty is just an example of our broken criminal justice system and now we have to fix that. >> host: professor dohrn, there have been some remarks attributed to you regarding the manson murders that. >> guest: one remark. four or five years ago. >> host: i wanted to see if you wanted to reconcile that view and what has been said that you said about the manson murders. >> guest: at it an interesting example. we all know this from the election camp

thank you, will marshall, thank you gyinger and sarah and jenny. and mark. and thank you, elizabeth. this is really all for you, after all. i would like to thank those who, like me, had the benefit of serving as chair of the d.l.c. they are all here and they have all been introduced. but it was a club i wanted to be part of. and world championship really blessed in those early years by chuck robb and sam nunn and dick gephardt, later joe lieberman, ev evan bayh. by senator carper, and there is a really, i think, magnificent person that will speak after me that proves the d.l.c. fellows program, rachel storch i'm glad you are hear representing the state and local representatives affiliated with the d.l.c. that was a really good movie. it had the virtue of being at least except for the stuff about me, true. i think secretary sebelius may be here. we were together at a previous event and i have a little more to say about that in a minute. but i loved getting involved in the d.l.c. for one thing, i was just tired of getting beat. and i'm old enough now to know w

caller: let me read something briefly out of one of the local newspapers, the "tribune" here in marshall county. it was on the front page, these are biweekly newspapers, it says national health care network has singled out marshall medical centers north and south for being the top 1% of hospitals nationwide. these are great hospitals up here, but my point is, i sure wish i could have got in the discussion with him, we pay -- we have blue cross and blue shield insurance which is -- we have the best, which is, we don't pay anything up front, and it's $304.12 a month. that's $3,600.49 a year. the employer pays $500. it's $600. -- $6,000. total price is $9,600.88. and incidentally it also pays some dental. this think that's just come out from the senate and house, the -- where they have come up wan estimate and said on -- based on 36 million people, which i think a third of those are illegal, but at any rate that would give you 15,667,000. host: you have these numbers down. caller: averaging $70,000 a person. $70,000 a person. now in how in god's name is that going to beat the public insuran

i think there are no thurgood marshall and william brennan on the present court. secondly is a the justices background i was intrigued by chief justice roberts answer to that question put from the audience a few minutes ago about the phenomena that all nine of the present justices came to the supreme court from the federal courts of appeal, that is unprecedented. i think the chief justice was nuanced and suggesting that that actually masks the fact that the professional background of the nine were fairly disparate before they came to the appellate bench. but as he pointed out, if you go further back again to 1969, there were people on the warren court's who were a major national political figures with extensive experience in politics before they ever came to the supreme court. one thing several worn as governor of california, vice-presidential candidate, hugo black who had been one of that leading new deal senators, felix frankfurter as chief adviser to franklin roosevelt, arthur goldberg secretary of labor, secretary general of the ifl-cio.

it says, national health care network has singled out marshal medical centers, north and south, for beinghe top 1% of hospitals nationwide. these are great hospitals up here. but my point is, i wish i surely could have gone in a discussion with them. we pay blue cross blue shield insurance, and we have the best. witches, we do not pay anything up front. -- which is, we do not pay anything of fraud. it is $304.12 per month, that is $3,649 per year. and the employer pays $5,000, or 6000. the total package cost is $9,649. this thing has just come out from the senate and house where they have come up with an estimate and said, based on 36 million people, which i think one-third of those are illegal -- but at any rate, that would give you 67,000 people about it would cover. that would average $70,000 per person. how in god's name is that going to beat the public insurance -- the private insurance? host: i appreciate the call. health care and the situation in north korea, iran, some of the questions we will be asking bob schieffer. by the way, you can send him a treaweet if you like. sylvia is

there are 94 marshals. do you know how many are women in the country? >> no, i do not. >> there is only one in the state of florida. i thought that was interesting, and i thought i would share that with my colleagues as we go forward. i thought i would ask a few questions about things that are closer to home that people have been focused on in my state, and that is the white collar fraud. the madoff case hit and came through our state due to a whistle blower. can you tell us what's going on to implement f.e.r.a. as well as the changes to enforce some of the white collar losses? we look at the money going out, the t.a.r.p., things like that, that there could be even more white collar fraud. >> we are in the process of ironing out the last wrinkles in what will be a comprehensive announcement about the program that we're going to have with regard to financial fraud, white collar crimes more generally, mortgage fraud. we have been working with our state and local counterparts with the other federal agencies to come up with this effort. this is a priority f

two of the other two were larry marshall and his wife michelle. larry marshall is my colleague at northwestern who went on to do six of the cases or 11 of the cases. at the same time you have people like alice kin leading the illinois coalition for the ending of the death penalty you saw the lawyers but sugar john birch, the police lieutenant who was responsible for the torture of 100 black men, 100 african-american men on the south side of chicago. total impunity over 25 year period and these activities came together so that six years after the demonstration, the republican governor of illinois put as moratorium on executions. >> guest: don't forget the writer toes for the tribune. >> guest: so much credit to go around here. it's an example that i think we should remember because it would have been unimaginable in 1991. it was unimaginable. no can could have charted out here is the strategy in and here is how we do it but chipping away, doing things, speaking broadly to the public,. assuming people can be convinced be the facts, not just by your

there are 94 marshalls. do you know how many are women? >> no, do i not. >> there is only one in the state of florida and i thought that was quite interesting. i thought i would share that with my colleagues as we recommend people as we go forward. i'm going to ask a few questions about things that are closer to home that people have been focused on in my state and that is some of the white collar fraud, the madeoff -- madoff case hit our state. could you talk about what's going on with the initial steps to implement fera as well as some of the other changes to and enforce some of the white collar laws. we look at the tarp money, things like that, that there could be even more white collar fraud. >> we are in the process of ironing out what i'll call the last wrinkles in what's going to be a comprehensive announcement about the program that we are going to have with regard to financial fraud, white collar crimes more generally. mortgage fraud. we have been working with our state and local counterparts with the other federal agencies to com

as chief justice marshall said in the famous 1803 case, marbury vs. madison that every law school has studied: the role of the court is simple. it is to say the law. not to write the law, or we write the law but say what the law is. what did the legislature pass when it needs interpretation? it is not about writing it. it is not about the mobility that the law isn't with a capital "l." and we can move it here based on these factors because of the cultural environment, but if the law is to change it is by legislature that the law changes, not by courts. and that's why marbury vs. madison said the role is to say what the law is. not to rewrite it. in federallest 78 hamilton wrote this and law students study this: whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive that in a government in which they are separated from each other the judiciary, by the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the constitution. because it will be leased in a capacity to annoy or injure them. the execut