[applause] >> thank you congenital meese. when i was asked by fought hmm because i am schwartz on torts, not to green on the screen. let's talk about justice and what the court did. all of you know about the wal-mart case. that was given a lot of publicity. and the court in their majority adhered to with the clause actions were all about. they occur when things are in common, and here you had a million women who claimed they were discriminated against, they had lowercase come that they didn't get raises, and yet as justice scalia said there was no group that held the class-action together, it was different people in different areas, decisions are made locally, the decision was correct, and i hope it the cry goes out to every court in america not to certify the huge class-action because once they do it is for a defendant like the last hand. the checkbook has to come out because you are certified at the class and you were going to be in for a real problem to realize is that the plaintiffs have a good econ congress to overrule t

edwin meese. he's also the 75th attorney general of the united states. mr. meese. [applause] >> well, thank you, rachel, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i join with rachel in welcoming you on behalf of heritage. that's specifically our center of legal and judicial studies. we're jointly presenting this program today on our annual scholars and scribes review of the supreme court term. well, of course, the most looked for event at the end of every supreme court term didn't take place this year. that is nobody retired. at least so far. but looking back over the term it's been an interesting term. you are going to hear about it from the experiod of times, both from the legal community and the journalistic community. we have continued one tradition and that is that the most overturned circuit was, of course, the ninth circuit. our friends from the western part of the united states with 84% reversal record. now they would have been the -- had the highest percentage except for the second circuit. technically they outdid the ninth circuit. in terms of reversal the nin

meese patel and undergraduate university of study, the university of yell. he also teaches at the george washington university. stuart taylor will be our last, but not least in any way on this panel. he is currently a contributing editor to "national journal" and "newsweek." is also a senior fellow at the brookings institute, and was previously a supreme court correspondent for "the new york times." he graduated from harvard law school, but despite that handicap has done quite well for himself, including his outstanding book on the shameful injustice of the duke law cross case, which she co-wrote with professor casey johnson. insight from that book might be relevant today regarding the failed criminal charges for dominique strauss-kahn, where casey antony, but hopefully today we will urge him to stick to the supreme court's term. with that, let me welcome jess bravin to begin our program. [applause] >> thank you, todd gaziano. well, as scribes, our job is to make the supreme court interesting, and it was a year where i think that michael, stuart, and die, it

you only get $3 a day, but it's worth it for me because it help meese get through my day, when it's gete back into the read world. >> almost like a stepping-stone, to get out the dour. go to work, children with families. different than being in a house with 30 females. >> the population, it's a gradual. >> yeah, but i don't think they're any smaller. >> reporter: today some female inmates are headed to a public library to shovel snow. >> the classification process to get into the community program is strict. you can't have parole violations. fighting rile in here. >> reporter: the program's director, heather mcneil harks known archer for years. >> cindy archer i've known since 1991 when i first started. she was in here with her mother are in '91. we're almost working together. which is kind of scary. >> i'll be getting it a lot. >> oh, please. >> it's not worth it. >> i know that. i know. >> take your shovel. i'll get these. >> she has been in and out for so long that this is kinds of like home. unfortunately. she feels probably safer in here than she does on the street. >> you're almos

hosted by the heritage foundation and moderated by edwin meese, live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. next, a discussion on science and innovation in the u.s. appeared we will hear from the head of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins. hosted by the brookings institution, this panel is about an hour. >> i was a host of the show called "the next big thing, " and so we're going to look at the next big thing. francis collins played a significant note -- role in this project. what is going to me next? what do you say has emerged in will emerge as the possible next big thing? >> it has been tenure stuns the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome. there has been a decade-long experience and paramount about reflection of how far we've come in those 10 years. for researchers, this is utterly transformed the way that we ask in tried answer questions about human biology. graduate students have a hard time imagining how actually people did anything worthwhile in studying human biology without this information. it is so much a minute to minute, hour at ou

but in the audience right now i want to recognize two people appeared former attorney general ed meese who was ronald reagan's distinguished fellow here at the heritage foundation, vice president. [cheers and applause] and one more. at stand are you here? he told me he was coming. he is the author and he really wanted to scone. the reason i'm recognizing them as because they are conservative icons. they are lines of traditional values. and ann coulter, please -- she was trying to make remarks. shall take questions from you. i have start unfortunately we may not have time for pictures. afterwards if there's time, shall take pictures with your thirst time. [applause] >> thank you for coming. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. i would like to speak out because it turns out they are serving beer and wine mdot audience firm you are right wingers a little liquor to. [laughter] i don't have prepared remarks. i'd never imagined cimino come a look ahead when your book is coming up, and while such a book, who would be competing with? and never in a million years imagine i'd be competing with so

we will try to reach the town he tell meese and help our brothers because they've been subjected to theorst crimes. so as you see every day we fire rockets on the enemy to drive them away. at a nearby abandoned quarry, rebels relax in the shade. lunch here is a simple affair. fresh camel meat and liver, spiced with a hefty helping of black humor. god willing, says this man, we'll string up gadhafi like this. during the long hours of boredom, mustafa tells me, they listen in on the radio to the libyan soldiers down below. >> we hear them speaking, he says, but they're speaking in xoed. it's not clear what they're saying. the message they're sending from the hills to gadhafi's troop, however, is clear enough. ben wedeman, cnn, in western libya. >>> and coming up on cnn -- >> mr. stone lost his life as a result of a tragic accident at rangers' ballpark last night. >> the baseball community mourn as loss of a man who accidentally fell off of a stadium railing and died trying to catch a baseball thrown into the stands. is it time to change security rails at baseball stadiums? that conversati

. >> tell meese about these meetings you are having. have there been raised voices, tense moments? >> you know, i think everybody has been professional and everybody has been polite. but i think that what we haven't seen is a recognition that, at a certain point, you leave politics aside, you set aside what gives you a tactical advantage at any given moment. you leave out your ideological predispositions and you just try to figure out a problem and i think the vast majority of people across the country are looking to washington to see if we can finally do something that we say is important that people agree is important, but requires some courage and some tough choices. >> ronald reagan and tip o'neill were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but they respected each other, they liked each other and they got things done. do you like speaker boehner? >> i do. and i think john would like to do the right thing. >> do you trust him? >> i do trust that when john tells me something, he means it. i think that his challenge right now is inside his caucus. i think his challenge is t

meese please thank, michael, anita, norman and david. thank you all for coming.[applause] thawed gnawed inaudible conversations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight, bbc's "newsnight" coverage of developments regarding the phone-hacking scandal. and later, the head of the nuclear regulatory commission on nuclear safety recommendations. tomorrow on c-span2, a live hearing on the british metropolitan police and its investigations into phone-hacking. senior police officials who resigned within the last few days testify at the hearing. also, testimony from former commissioner paul stephenson and former assistant commissioner, john yates. watch live coverage at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. then another live hearing on the phone-hacking scandal with rupert murdoch and his son james. along with former news international executive rebeckah brooks. they testify at a british parliamentary committee about allegations on phone-hacking and police bribery at the british tabloid. that is live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3 >> now bbc "newsnight

meese please thank, michael, anita, norman and david. thank you all for coming.[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [inaudible] >> the house is working on a package of $101 billion in spending cuts for fiscal year 2012. yesterday the house rules committee took up the legislation. that markup is next. we will get an update on the bill on this morning's "washington journal" at 7:00 even the less eastern. live house coverage here on c- span. >> but titles like "slander" and her latest "demonic , "anee coulter has something to say. your chance to speak with the author and syndicated columnist "in depth," for 3 hour starting at noon eastern on c-span2. >> the house rules committee met to debate deficit legislation called cut, cap, and balance. president obama has issued a veto threat. it includes $111 billion in cuts and requires congress to pass a balanced budget amendment. the full house will take up the legislation to market due to technical problems, we start our coverage in pro

the burmese freedom and democracy act and the burr meese jade act have prevented hundreds of millions of dollars from getting into the hands of the burmese government. we ensure that the people of burr many see us as an ally in their struggle for human rights and we send a message that the united states will not turn a blind eye to crimes against humanity. there's no question that burma is ruled by one of the world's most brutal governments. over the past year, we have seen ongoing abuses committed by the burmese military including rapes, torture, and killings. just last week, human rights watch released a report documenting how villagers are subjected to summary executions, torture and being used as human shields during conflict. women in burma live in constant fear of rapes by soldiers of their own military. for the leaders of the burmese military, rape is a tactic of war. one used to torment and intimidate entire populations. not just their immediate victims. in fact, just two weeks ago, on july 5, the burmese soldiers carried out four more rapes against ethnic civilians. the innoc

. >> frank love meese to r.s.v.p. for him. as long as the answer is no.you did that yesterday, that meant a lot. so sweet. that really helped my day. golden rule, people, whether you're married or not. >> yes, yes. just being polite and having good manners. one of my pet peeve. when people lose their manners in a relationship so long because they're used to it. you're a good thank you person with your kids, with your husband, with me, with people you've known a long time. it's not like you expect to get away with -- >> no. i don't think the please or thank yous should be implied. >> the please was implied. >> today is friday. so -- i don't really understand this brazilian thing but apparently it's a huge, huge rage. >> everybody wants a chunky derriere. >> and the big kind that hides the -- >> come on. >> sebastian. come on. >> how are you? >> you're going to show us how to get it? >> yes. i want everyone up. >> by everyone, you me you and me get up? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> come on. come on. >> everybody gather round. what do you do? >> right here. >> com

meese please thank, michael, anita, norman and david. thank you all for coming.[applause] thawed gnawed inaudible conversations. [inaudible conversations] >> house and senate leaders are back at the table with president obama at the white house right now for talks on the debt and deficit. it started about 40 minutes ago. the president called this meeting after john boehner walked out of talks, saying he wanted to try working with the senate leaders instead of the white house, and some of the folks here assembled this morning, minority leader mitch mcconnell on the other side of the table. you can't see him in this shot and house minority leader nancy pelosi and the vice president, and some of the focus this morning, reports saying that they will try to raise the debt ceiling to cover spending until at least 2013. we will bring you continuing coverage of the debt and deficit talks here on the c-span networks. on news makers tomorrow, connecticut congressman john larson, chairman of the democratic caucus will offer his perspective on the debt ceiling negotiations a