i look that perry mason on television. as i started going to high- school and college, and eventually learned about the supreme court and more about the law. i'm going to read you a little of my book. my childhood ambitions to become a lawyer had nothing to do with middle-class respectability and comfort. some lawyers make a good living, but that was not what motivated me. i understood the lawyer's job as being to help people. i understood the law as a force for good, for protecting the community, for upholding order against the threat of chaos, and for resolving conflicts. to mostgives structure of our relationships, allowing us all to promote our interests at once been the most harmonious way. and overseeing this noble purpose with dispassionate wisdom was the figure of the judge. heroes, have action astronauts, firemen, commandos. my idea of heroism in action was a lawyer. the judge being a kind of superlawyer. the law for me was not a career but a vocation. i found my passion. and that is what you should be looking for

onooked at perry mason television. i eventually learned about the supreme court and to learn more about the law. i will read you a little bit of my book. my childhood ambition to become a lawyer had nothing to do with middle class respectability and comfort. some lawyers make a good living. i understand the job was to help people. as thestand the law force for good -- i understood the lot as a force for good and for resolving conflicts. the law gives structure to most of our relationships, allowing us to promote our interest at once in the most harmonious way. overseeing this noble purpose with this passionate wisdom was a figure of a judge. all kids have action heroes. astronauts, firemen, commandos. my idea of heroism inaction was a lawyer. a judge being a kind of super lawyer. the law for me was on a career but a vocation. i found my passion. that is what you should be looking for. i really believe that what you do best are the things you are passionate about, the things you like. important have to be to anybody but

and my favorite show when i was a kid was perry mason the time television was black-and-white that you got to see the first television lawyer and perry taught me something. a television taught me something to the door parents will hate hearing this. but a little bit of everything can be pretty good. and watching perry mason taught me about something called being a lawyer. i had no lawyers and my family, i never met a lawyer anywhere. and so it was a profession that i knew nothing about. all of a sudden, television exposed me to this different career and i started to examine it and think about it is a possibility of myself. but what was not a possibility was becoming a supreme court justice. if you don't know the supreme court is, you don't know what a supreme court justice is and that is the point that you cannot dream and as you know what the possibilities are because they don't just pop into your head. they are things you learn about that give you hope about something and you can become. so how do you find those dreams? you find them the way that you are right now by taking the chanc

white appeared on "bonanza," perry mason," and "father knows best." >>> the ask any married couple thatage is work. but when you say that in front of millions, it gets attention. ben affleck, during a speech he said to his wife, jennifer garner in the audience, i want to thank you on working on our marriage. it's work. he took a lot of heat. while hosting "snl" he invited his wife on to explain himself. >> our marriage is a -- what would you have called it in the speech? >> a gift. i would have said thank you to my wife. our marriage is a gift. >> it's a gift, to the work of marriage, which you gifted me, with enormous work. >> we're going to be completely honest here, why don't we mention who does all of the work. >> i want to tell you how i wish i had ended that speech. okay? i couldn't do any of the things that i do, without your support. you are my angel, my life and my world. >> you're reading that. >> a little help on the cue card. jennifer garner. >>> the star-mangled banner. you have to hear this one to >>> the star-mangled banner. you have to hear this one to believe it. i did

and my favorite show when i was a kid was "perry mason." for you to imagine there was a time when television was still black and white and that i got to see the first television lawyer. perry taught me something and television taught me something. your parents will hate hearing me say that. [laughter] because a lot of them think a lot of them think televisionis this horrible thing. a little bit of anything can be pretty good. watching perry mason talk to me about something called lawyering. i had no lawyers in my family and had never met a lawyer. so it was a profession i knew nothing about. and all of a sudden television exposed me to this different career. and i started to examine it and think about it as a possibility for myself. but what was not the possibility was becoming a supreme court justice, because, if you don't know what the supreme court is, you don't know what the supreme court justice is. and that is the point. you can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are, because dreams don't just pop up into your head. dreams

back in those days it was perry mason and sam benedict. i don't remember all the other ones, but atticas' fence, you know. i thought that his lawyers did. they did great, noble things. and they do great and noble things. this is not by any means a profession bashing exercise for me. it is actually the opposite. it is an effort to try to remind people about the ability of the profession and what it was and what it can be and what should be. but i got lucky, and here's how. for me i did not have the disconnect. added not have the dissidents between expectations and reality so i went to law school thinking that lawyers did was went to court and try cases. well, lo and behold as a second your associate at a big law firm , i was a first chair trial lawyer in front of the jury in federal court in chicago. this is what lawyers do. it was a remarkable opportunity. six months later i had another one. i was lucky. was really, really lucky. those are rare things then. now they're really -- now there million common. but my career followed, you know --

you are a fan of perry mason, as i am. i yelled back many years watching perry mason, i appreciate you calling in this morning. it is not about politics, it is about people. in these uncertain times a decision was not even made. they did not have the right to appeal. essentially we put them on hold for more than the year. some of them more than three years. so, we are just not going to make a decision. we need to get to the bottom of it. i believe that there are some patriots out there working with the irs who are going to come forward to share information. they already have. host: were these actions inappropriate or illegal? highlyat best they were inappropriate and unethical. when you start to look at equal protection under the law, if we are not having equal protection, that becomes something that is not legal and when it becomes specifically targeted with a purpose, we know that that is something that we cannot tolerate. host: go ahead. hopeful and i believe the we will do is not yield until we get to the bottom of thi

. >> i don't talk in perry mason terms of blowing the lid off something.an tell you various whistle-blowers in the background i know, there is information that is inconsistent with the administration sceniario for the attack on benghazi. i would tell you that with certainty. >> carny dismissed the idea that anyone was being muzzled andallied that anyone who wants to testify can come forward. >> anybody who wants to be heard by congress can welcome in our view. that is our approach to the matter. >> the administration released new letters from the departments of state and defense stamped in the last 24 hours. since fox asked the president whether government employees are blocked from speaking out. >> i am not familiar with the notion that anybody was blocked from of testimony. >> the new letters insists that neither departnt received request from any employees that want private attorneys to get security clearance for acess to classify would information on benghazi. >> the state department is playing cutesy. in other words they say i will be a whistle-blower

i mean, i guess all of us are waiting for that perry mason moment when steve miller's just going to give and say sten, you know, joe biden called me, the president called me and asked me to do these things, and everybody goes home and says, look, i knew this was what it was. this is a game that's played in washington. it's sad and good at the same time. everybody is, in fact, touched by the irs. gerri: i am. >> and everybody understands what the irs does to a family, a business or what have you when they get their claws into you. so it's good that they see ste miller denying, not knowing what to do, the president of the united states saying i'm going to fix it. but if he doesn't know about it, he doesn't know what to fix, and then he goes out and plays a round of golf. it's good that they finally see it, unfortunately, it's about three or four months too late. gerri: you mentioned what th irs can do to you, they can garnish your wages, put you in jail, take ur assets. they have, ultimately, all power. but what miller said in defense of himself was shocking to me. it was about customer se

>> perry mason! >> i'm guilty! get the shackles. you know what?"the five." >> it is? >> i think i agree with you. >> there you go. >> i'm serious. i think the media -- >> you've done that twice today. >> it must be the drink. polling has an affect on me. i think the media should havee. been on this story earlier and i think the transparency is -- you got to demand that they produce the documents, give youce everything up front. i understand that you're dealing with the c.i.a., you're dealing with defense intelligence, okay. but at some point given that there were the deaths involved,y i think the media has the responsibility to go hard at this story, to be an absolute pit bull. you talk about a watchdog, be a pit bull because you know what? i disagree with my colleagues here. i don't think there is anybody prven to be involved in lies and conspiracies. but the media, wow. why aren't you out there pursuing the damn story? >> weigh. >> wait a minute, if you just said why wouldn't they pursue the lies lies and conspiracy? >> if you show it to me, if

0> tv's perry mason the late raymond burr, snl's al franken who is now a u.s. senator so god bless that guy for never leaving the world of comedy. plus i'll give the republican party some very serious advice. there is a real scandal in the american military that the g.o.p. could take on to salvage their public image. unfortunately, it does not involve smearing president obama. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us tonight. the eyes and hearts of the country remain pointed toward oklahoma in the wake of the devastating and deadly tornadoes that swept across the state yesterday specifically through the towns of new castle and moore. the news was not as bad as we feared yesterday as the death toll has been reduced from previously reports of 51 to more recent reports of 24 while still at least 200 people are being reported injured. but the damage to the communities are severe and surreal as entire neighborhoods have been completely destroyed and reports that up to 20,000 people may be displaced. police firef

lot of people think of themselves being lawyers as trial lawyers and perry mason type of stuff. that's what i thought i would be. >> go back to, you said you couldn't get into law school, whatever 20 years ago. your mother's aunt or your mother's cousin helped you. how often is that possible? >> well, you have to have the good fortune to know the right people. the amazing thing is -- there are a lot of people that look the same. one of the thing i come to recognize so much is personal relationships. the tieds that you build and the colleagues that you have, they will go to bat for you and vouch for you makes all the difference in the world. i got lucky. >> i want to show you video that we did, you may have seen this, with just breyer when he took us around his office and see what you can add to this. this is in his office in the supreme court. kind of explaining the paper trail on cases. here's justice breyer. [video clip] >> of those 80,000 cases, 8000 ask us each year to hear the case. that means about 150 a week. 150 requests to hear the case. here they are for this week. so

becoming a lawyer and judge after falling in love with a still famous border region nancy drew and perry mason. he eventually had to give up on a career in the military and/or as a police detective, one of your early fantasies, because o diabetes. also very much a story about overcoming obstacles that the same time. the loss of your father, he was 42. his alcoholism, your mother's challenges as a single parent, loss of your cousin to drugs, aids, complications, and your force, but you don't make excuses. when you write about your father's tragic early death, fo instance comice a command ' i know he did this to itself. even as a child i knew he was the one responsible. it is on page 44, and then on page 49, there was no saving popov from himself. my question is this. avoid such resolve social problems, where does individual responsibility and the shaping force of the environment start and stop? >> i don't know the answer to that, but i do have one answer for al i proposed. i cannot change you. who you are and how you respond to what you do, those are your choices. my choices are to change me. i

there is no perry mason moment. there is no got shot, no litigious situation where someone comes in and says we are gesturing up with misinformation and we have not yet disclosed it to the other side. don't you read knowledge that you had a duty based on your testimony before this committee of what your actual knowledge was? didn't you have a duty, mr. miller, to come forward and disclose it to the committee based on all of the cascading inquiries that had happened from the ways and means committee directed to you? was in possession of some facts, not all facts. we had done an internal review to see what we needed to do to get this case is moving because the processing was bad and the listing was bad. it came in at exactly the same time and they were getting the same facts. we're going to wait for them to get the facts so i did not come in and mess up their otherwise getor the facts that were not correct, sir. >> you're not concerned about the timing of the tigta conversation when you had a planted question? >> it w

there's no perry mason moments. there's not gotcha moments.owing up with this information and we haven't disclosed it to the other side. don't you acknowledge that you had a duty based on your testimony before the committee of what your actual knowledge was? didn't you have a duty to come forward and disclose that to the committee based on all this cascading and inquiries that happened from the ways and means committee? >> i don't believe so. again, the processing was bad. the listing was bad. those are two different dealings. they were getting all the facts. we were going to wait for them to get the facts so i didn't come in and either mess up their investigation or otherwise give you facts that were not correct, sir. >> so you weren't concerned about the timing of the investigation when you and miss learner decided to move forward. we had the facts. we made the written response. >> so you had the information. the totality of the information that you're describing today. you had it all in your possession at the the time that you were going to

there is no perry mason moment. there is no gotcha moment. there is no litigious situation where someone comes in and says, oh, we're just showing up, your honor, with this information and we have not disclosed to the other side. don't you acknowledge that you had a duty in based on your testimony before this committee of which are actual knowledge was? didn't have a duty, mr. miller, do, forward and disclose that to the committee, based on all the cascading inquircascading inquit happens on the ways and means committecommittee directed to? >> i don't believe so. what's happening was i was in possession of some facts, was not in possession of all facts. facts. redundant internal review to see what we need to do to get these cases moving because again the processing was bad, the listing was bad, those are two different pieces we were dealing with. tigta was in at exactly the same time. they were getting all the facts. we're going to wait for them to get the facts so that it didn't come in and either mess up their investigation or otherwise giv

there is no perry mason moment. there is no got your mind. there is no litigious situation where somebody comes in and says, "we are just showing up, your honor, and we have not disclosed it to the other side." do you not knowledge that you had a duty based on your testimony before this committee about what your actual knowledge was? did you not have a duty, mr. miller, to come forward and disclosed that to the committee, based on all of the inquiry is from the ways and means committee? >> sir, what was happening was i was aware of some facts, not in possession of all facts. we had done an internal review to see what we needed to do to get these cases moving because the processing was bad. those were two different pieces we were dealing with. take those and at the same time they were getting all of the facts. we are going to wait for them to get the facts. otherwise, we would give you facts that were not correct, sir. >> so you're not concerned about the timing of the investigation when it you and she decided to move forward? >> it was done.

subsequent information, counsel has a duty to disclose that to the opposite party. ,here is no perry mason moment no litigious situation where somebody comes in and says we are just showing up with this information and we have not disclose it to the other side. don't you acknowledge that you had a duty based on your testimony before this committee of what your actual knowledge was? didn't you have a duty to come forward and disclose that based on all the inquiries that happened from the ways and means committee directed to you? >> what was happening was i was in possession of some fax -- some facts. we did an internal review to see what we needed to do to get the cake moving. the processing was bad, the listing was bad. they were getting all the facts. we were going to wait for them to get the facts. so i did not come in to give you facts that were not correct. >> so you were not concerned of the timing of the investigation when you and ms. lerner made the decision to move forward? >> it was done. facts and made our written response. >> in other words, you have the actual information. the

perry for the u.s. census bureau in lisa sturtevant from george mason university. what do these maps tell you in terms of the direction of the country? >> guest: discount areas, metro growth rates are indicative part of an emergence. i think about these maps when i look at the mobility rate. residential mobility is the rate of folks in that one year to the next and for a long time, rates from the decline. in 2012 the mobility rate picked up for the first time and was driven by the state to state migration. what that means is people are able to move and they move for jobs. the population growth is highly concentrated in the energy sector, counties in matcher areas. >> host: what government programs affect population growth? >> guest: right now, population growth is driven by deployment less of a government programs. for the population estimates and are set as government programs is the fact that 80% of federal grants, states and localities are driven by a formula that includes population estimates. so if you're not orange county the population, that may be problemat