solicitor general paul clement. if confirmed, she will replace retiring justice john paul stevens. this is two hours. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. it is my privilege this morning to welcome all of you to the 70th sixth circuit conference. i am quite sure i am right about this, the biggest one we have ever had. if you don't all fit in the room, we are sorry. [laughter] a tremendous amount of work and planning has gone into this, and at this point i sort of feel old enough that i could have been at every one of these 70 conferences, but honestly i'm not. but i can assure you that having observed and to a lesser extent participated in the planning and preparations for this conference, it has been an enormous undertaking, and at best we are only crossing the starting line at this point. he would encourage each one of you in your comings and goings over the next couple of days, when you encounter clarence moderate objection, and alison and his wonderful assistants who are at the registration tables and virtually everywhere else where something needs to be done, to express your

solicitor general paul clement. last week president obama nominated elena kagan to replace justin john paul stevens who's retiring at the end of the term. "america and the courts" today at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c span. >> this week on the communicators, a discussion on cyber security with phillip ridinger of the department of homeland security. >> phillip ridinger, what are your duties as undersecretary of national protection at the department of homeland security? >> so my duties fall into sort of three categories. first i'm the deputy undersecretary for the national protection and programs director, which means i'm the number two in a fairly large organization that is bigger than just cyber. so within mppd or the national protection programs director is also infrastructure protection which is all about protecting the country's infrastructure, physical infrastructure and otherwise, the federal protective service which is responsible for protecting government buildings, risk management and anal says component and u.s.

solicitor general paul clement. if confirmed, ms. kagan will replace john paul stevens.ns. this is two hours. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. it is my privilege this morning to welcome all of you to the 70th sixth circuit conference. i am quite sure i am right about this, the biggest one we have ever had. if you don't all fit in the room, we are sorry. [laughter] a tremendous amount of work and planning has gone intohis, and at this point i sort of feel old enough that i could have been at every one of these 70 conferences, but honestly i'm not. but i can assure you that having observed and to a lesser extent participated in the planning and preparations for this conference, it has been an enormous undertaking, and at best we are only crossing the starting line at this point. he would encourage each one of you in your comings and goings over the next couple of days, when you encounter clarence moderate objection, and alison and his wonderful assistants who are at the registration tables and virtually everywhere else where something needs to be done, to express you

viewed by everybody as two of the greatest experts on the supreme court. , erwinou chemerinsky and paul clement. [applause] >> solicitor general indicate in was on capitol hill to meet with several senators -- solicitor kagan waslena qaedand on capitol hill to meet with several senators. >> ms. kagan and i will meet one on one after all of you have left. we will talk about that after. thank you. i think they are important, though. [laughter] >> do you think they are important, ma'am? [laughter] >> you know that we are going to have hearings. >> thank you, everybody. >> the good work. >> no running. there is no need to run. nice and orderly. >> we're glad you're here. thank you for coming by and thank you, some consider general kaydin -- solicitor general .aydikagan we would like to chat one-on-one and we will talk about some personal things and some little things. she will have some questions about how we will conduct the process. i will commit to you what i told the president. it will be a fair process and it will be completed, as he requested, as soon as possible, if things go well. i am glad

i know that ted olson would not have voted for the mccain feingold bill, but he and paul clement did an extraordinary job of defending that piece of legislation, which i think you'll agree. that is what the solicitor general does. but i agree with that. he did a superb job. -- >> i agree with that. he did a superb job. i could've swornhat he was persuaded because of the job he did. >> for that day, he was peuaded. that is all you need. >> let me ask you about the conflict of interest restrictions. it is somewhat ironic. as i mentioned, i was pleased with how the justice department handled their responsibility to the king -- to defend that bill. he is involved -his been involved in challenging the constitutionality of the statues. -- since he left office, he has been involved in challenging the constitutionality of those statutes. i'm somewhat concerned by that. his challenge in the statutes that he defended ably as solicitor general. president obama has been very tough ago restrictions -- ethical restrictions, going well beyond revolving-door limitations. can you review the ethical r