i look forward to watching my nebraska cornhuskers, but i am not going to say i look for it -- this is about our country and our constitution, and i get my game face on. this is our job. the cases i am most excited about are the ones that have the least impact on people's lives. the relieve you of the burden. the way i try to do it is not to get some exhilaration from it, but to be faithful to the constitution, to be faithful to the oath that i took to uphold and interpret -- and the exhilaration i get is at the end of the term to say that i gave it my best shot. >> when you talk about the recognition that your work affects people's lives? what you just said -- the cases that you prefer, that do not directly have an impact on the way people live their lives. why is that? help me understand that. >> when you look at our country, some of the decisions that we make in interpreting the constitution, people went, people lose, and it may have tremendous impact. you have changes in the constitution. you have cases involving tension, execution of other people are sentencing, the criminal justi

i look forward to watching my nebraska cornhuskers, but i am not going to say i look for it -- this is about our country and our constitution, and i get my game face on. this is our job. the cases i am most excited in about are the ones that have the least impact on people's lives. the relieve you of the burden. the way i try to do it is not to get some exhilaration from it, but to be faithful to the constitution, to be faithful to the oath that i took to uphold and interpret -- and the exhilaration i get is at the end of the term to say that i gave it my best shot. >> when you talk about the recognition that your work affects people's lives? what you just said -- the cases that you prefer, that do not directly have an impact on the way people live their lives. why is that? help me understand that. and>> when you look at our country, some of the decisions that we make in interpreting the constitution, people went, people lose, and it may have tremendous impact. you have changes in the constitution. you have cases involving tension, execution of other people are sentencing, the criminal

welcome to nebraska, 1.8 million. residents, cornhuskers.orn is the nation's -- it is that nation's largest producers of corn and cows of -- outnumber people for to one beard, never export is spam and pro sports, none. clinton's fame, home to world's largest porch swing. the other nebraskan republican was on the floor talking about the deals in the bill and here is what he had to say. >> less than 24 hours at the announcement of that special carve out for nebraska, virtually no warning, no preparation to speak -- 2000 people gathered in omaha, neb., nebraska and ends in one voice crying foul. nebraska ns are frustrated and angry that our beloved state got thrust into the same pot with all of the other special deals that it cut here. in fact, mr. president, they are outraged that a back room deal for our state might have been what it puts this bill across the finish line. there should be no special deals, no car out, for anyone in this health care bill, not for states, not for insurance companies, and not for individual senators. host: republ

they said since when has nebraska become synonymous for cenacle what's in it for me tide of politics? the term cornhuskers kickback is already a favorite of television's talking heads and they go on to say that all the rest of the country sees this deal. the editorial continues under its provisions the federal government would pay all additional medicaid costs for nebraska in perpetuity. the congressional budget office says it estimated the deal may be worth $100 million over ten years. they go on to say i think in very powerful language the deal is the embodiment of what is wrong in washington instead of thoughtful careful work on problems washington lawmakers cobble together special deals, dubious, financial accounting and implementation on a grandiose scale. and they devote a paragraph to the many special deals cut, and your board illustrates one. >> i asked -- >> if i could finish this, senator mccain, then you can ask me. they say this, it's time to push the reset button on health care reform. the effort has gone awry. >> does in the spring of a larger issue? i ask our colleagues to comment on this.

the democrats of nebraska are getting a free ride off a republican taxpayers of the rest of the nation, thanks to senator reid did this deal, called the cornhuskers kickback, and also the so-called louisiana purchase, as some republicans are calling it, is in the senate bill. does that necessarily mean it will be in the final bill? guest: no, it does not necessarily mean that. the measure has to go to conference, so the senate and house have to meet to resolve differences. however, it took a lot of negotiation in the senate to get all 60 democrats on board, and conferees, if they ultimately want to send the bill to the press of a company to be cognizant that the votes may not be there if they do not keep these types of measures in. host: what is to prevent the other 49 senators saying we want the same deal that you gave the nebraska senator, ben nelson? guest: in some way, nothing, but the point becomes what democratic senator is going to be willing to stand in the way a final passage if they feel they did not get as good a deal in the bill. it is worth noting that much has been made of the $300 million that senator landrieu got from louisiana an

one time we were talking lifestyle issues and he says look aye hallman brit for the nebraska cornhuskers. i don't think scalia has ever watched a football game. he said he goes into his office and put on this opera music. it is a job. i think justice thomas was minimizing his investment but i do have to say that justice scalia is very much committed to what he does and that was the main theme that came from his colleagues was that he is somebody who is committed, highly energized. he is 73, which in supreme court justice years is quite young and he sees many years ahead of him despite the fact that the this still smoke, drink and eat a lot of great italian food. finally, i guess the thing i would close within this kind of segues into what barry friedman is going to talk about is this moment or the court is set and how the public regards it. if you think of the future of this court-- which is have the first appointee of barack obama and sonia sotomayor who essentially succeeds another person overseeing liberal philosophy, david souter and the next person who will probably leave this justi