reagan was sitting there smiling, looking over powell's shoulder wipeout was talking. so the general said he had to lean in more and he said mr. president, we cannot have the leaders, on and on. reagan finally stopped him and went like this, colin powell told me he stopped immediately because the president does this you stop talking. he said, hey colin. i put some acorns out in the garden last weekend looks like the squirrels are starting to pick them up. [laughter] >> and general powell said there and he turned to me and he said i immediately ran out of the room, picked up the phone, called my wife and said what have i gotten myself into? [laughter] >> what he figured out and what so many other people figured out about reagan was that, you know what, the screaming and yelling and the accusation, that was just a sidebar. in the end for reagan, he believed it was about giving his policies enacted in that respect he was not going to get engaged in sort of the nasty back and forth. i think that's one of the reasons the president obama right now is doing as well as he is b

he would needle powell at meetings.sometimes to pick on his pronunciation of the capital of afghanistan. powell who is no slouch in self we get back at him, his well-worn suits. he was critical for management of the national security council. host: did you talk to either for this book? guest: yes, to one of them. caller: good morning, gentlemen. of like to ask the author, part of the problem with his reputation comes from the fact that no matter how good of the secretary of defense to become if you want to be a true agent of change to go in with lighter forces, change the mentality, you sometimes take some of that in the end of your reputation is not what it would have been if you have gone with the flow -- if you take so many pins and pricks. guest: i think this through to some extent. he was found not to be popular to try to change one of the most high-bound bureaucracies and institutions in washington, but there are also ways more effective to bring about change. what he is often criticized for an poorly what got him

powell on the subject of israel and the middle east. colin powell just now is engaged in a robust argument about the future of the republican party and i think colin powell is someone obviously the republicans should have in their party. he's a man of enormous distinction and achievement and strong feelings. i'm much more conservative republican than he is. but i'm, i guess what they call a big tent republican. you might say with regard to wilmington, wilmington before michael jordan became the most famous export from wilmington, the most famous one was my former colleague and much-missed friend david brinkley. host: also the city the government chose to test the digital transition. you wrote a very strong column about the president's speech in cairo. would you tell people what your concerns are with what you said? guest: the concern is that all presidents, but particularly this one, tend to think their personality is an irresistible force and there are a lot of immovable objects out there that won't find it irresistible. the president

as far as a powell goes, colin powell says he voted for carter, clinton, and obama. people like me who are real conservatives and republicans did not vote for those people. someone with a track record like that who voted for carter, clinton, and obama is not a republican, my friend. guest: well, colin powell says he is republican. so if he says he is republican, you can save you are and people can challenge that or not. he says he is a republican. john mccain says he is republican. tim pawlenty, the republican governor of minnesota says he is a republican. be that as it may you have the debate going on right now for the dousoul of the republican party. it will continue even after someone emerges as the leader of the republican party. the party is in about the same state as in 1964 after lyndon johnson won a landslide victory over barry goldwater. people said we will never see the republican party again. four years later the people elected richard nixon. you will see these various points of view about what a republican is in for the party is going. eventually republic

powell and the middle east. and colin powell is someone that the republicans should have in their party. an enormous distinction and achievement and strong feelings. i am a much more conservative republican than he is. but i am what they call a big-tent republican. and wil'mton where my favorite is from. host: where the government contested distention. you wrote a strong column about the president's speech in cairo, would you tell them of your concerns of what he said? guest: the concern, all presidents but particularly this one, tend to think their personality is an irresistable force, and there are a lot of immovable things out there that won't find it irresistible. the president had a theme in the 40's, if we would just talk and harmony would break out. this is the old belief that the natural continue is harmony, i tend to be more like hobbs, people getting along is difficult. in the 30's, when we got to know the empire of japan, we had an irrepressible conflict on our hands. i thought his view was "a," optim

a few years ago you wrote an article about what you essentially thought of colin powell, and you took him apart, and was so good to see that. it was everything he had done wrong and i would like you to comment on that, please. >> i don't frankly remember the particular column. i remember having a distinct difference on the subject of israel and the middle east. colin powell is just now engaged in a robust argument about the future of the republican party and i think colin powell is some room the republicans should have in their party as a matter of enormous distinction in the achievement and a strong feelings. i am much more conservative republican than he is but i am i guess what they call a big ten republican. i might say with regard to wilmington, wilmington before michael jordan became the most famous export from wilmington, the most famous one was my former colleague and missed friend david. >> host: also the place for the reason the government chose to test the vigil transition. speaking of colin powell's policy in the middle east you wrote a strong column about the speech in ca

rumsfeld beaston needle powell at national security council meetings. rumsfeld would pick on powell's pronunciation of the capital of afghanistan, telling him he was putting the accent on the wrong syllable. powell, no slouch himself to try to get back rumsfeld, a needling his well-worn suits and so on. as for rice, rumsfeld felt, he was very critically initially of from management of the security council. i talked to one of them. >> host: atwater, maryland, this is mason independent line. >> caller: good morning gentleman. i would like to ask the author, part of a problem was rumsfeld reputation comes from the fact that no matter how good of the secretary of defense to become, if you are a secretary who wants to be true agent of change as rumsfeld was, to go in with forces, change the mentality of the military, you sometimes just takes so many pins and bricks that in the end, your reputation is not what it would have been if you would have just kind of gone with the flow. >> guest: i do think there's something to that point. maybe he was found not to b

when you wanted to get, you just wrote a check to paul powell.t turned out that a lot of those checks really did go to paul powell. [laughter] >> and it goes on and on. for the last governor's will wind up in jail. so there certainly is a long history of political corruption, but i do think, i did like what patrick fitzgerald said when he said this was paid to play on steroids with rod blagojevich. so i think he did manage to take it to a new level. >> so i guess the question, when you talk about the answer to his question and the previous question, is whether blagojevich is going to try his harper valley pta mode as somebody put it in. they were wondering when he gave a speech at the end of his impeachment trial is going to stand up there with the harper valley pta and say yeah, and they run with you and you and you. >> he did that. >> but only a little taste of what might come. >> read the book. >> but the other question, is he going to do that. but the other question is is he going to be able or can we put this into sort of well, this is how b

colin powell speaks well for the republican party. i'd like to see him get a broader role in the future. newt gingrich has a lot of good ideas, but too much baggage. bobby jindal is a good up-and- coming voice. i think sarah palin is a light and she needs to go back to alaska. host: front page of "but chicago tribune." "harsh sentence for the two journalists in north korea" is making the front page. we are turning our attention to the situation there at the bottom of the next intel rep. john is on the phone from atlanta. who speaks for your party? caller: it is hard to tell who speaks for our party right now. i believe that we need to go more moderate. with john mccain or colin powell or the main senators. i think the republican party has been hijacked by more radicals like dick cheney and rush limbaugh. i think we need to be more inclusive of the minority. host: thank you for the call. in the next hour, we turn our attention to two foreign policy issues. shibley telhami will join us to talk about the elections in lebanon and what is

colin powell was a republican, as far as i'm concerned. again, i have enormous regard for the vice president, but that mindset is what i think creating an environment not conducive to the openness and the candid and honest disagreement we can have within the party and still retain the unity. unity does not mean unanimity. there are certain core, bedrock principles around which we can unite. it does not mean that we are unanimously in lockstep on all of them. host: how do you think history will defeat the bush presidency? guest: president bush was handed a set of circumstances and like i think -- unlike i think any other part of it was dealt with. he was principal, it was decisive. i think much of it will depend on the outcome of our effort in afghanistan and iraq, particularly in iraq. and i think history will be dealing with him, as it did ronald reagan, much more fairly than current analysts. host: good morning. guest: the stupidity and insanity of this man that you are interviewing is off the wall. george bush, your talked-about republi

secretary colin powell is from the caribbean, sicily tyson, we have heard w.e.b. du bois, james weldon johnson, malcolm x. harry bell fonty -- belefonte and sidney poitier. in my own district two people i might talk about here, antoinette kay elliss william and dr. claire nelson. the founder and president of the institute of caribbean studies is known for her leadership in making caribbean americans heard. and i'm proud to say that i have worked with her on a regular basis as many of us do and we admire her and the great work that she does. we just had the opportunity to be with her last week and we are extremely pleased at the outstanding work that the institute is doing. the second person i mentioned, dr. antoinette k. ellis williams is a leader in my congressional district, currently serves as president for the he section valley health care and serves on the -- essex valley health care and serves on the board of east general hospital. she's part of a nonprofit organization of doctors, nurses, and other professionals who give back to the community through their

leading the list of those that agree with president obama in closing guantanamo, general colin powell, former chairman of joint chiefs of staff and former secretary of state under president george w. bush. republican senators john mccain of arizona, lindsey graham south carolina both publicly stated they favor the closing of guantanamo. former republican secretaries of state james baker, henry kissinger, and condoleezza rice. admiral michael mullen, chairman of joint chiefs of staff and general david petraeus. so for senator kafeel to come to the floor and suggest this notion of closing guantanamo isn't one shared by military and security leaders isn't accurate. the list i've given isn't complete. many others agree with the president's position. according to the experts, guantanamo has become a recruiting tool for al qaeda that's actually hurting america's security. in his remarks this afternoon senator carl challenged the notion singing and by quote an idea that's been floated by the president, senator durbin and others, and of quote, of closing guantanamo. senator kyl didn't mention

. >> justice powell, lewis powell, once told me it made a difference for him about half the time. that he would go into an oral argument having discussed it with his clerks and listened to the oral argument about half of time he second guessed himself and perhaps didn't go the other way entirely but at least was willing to reconsider the kind of instinct that he had harbored going into the argument. i would say in that i said this in, of course, discussing my own chapter. the purpose of oral argument is really to shape the conversation that the justices are going to have because i don't know that the public knows this entirely but they cast their vote very quickly afterwards. the case on mundy they cast their vote on wednesday afternoon and the cases are heard tuesday and wednesday they cast their vote on friday on the private conference. so the court is going to put on record for itself an initial impression of where we're going to go on this. it may not be a very substantive discussion but it is a discussion that leads to a vote and that vote usually dictates who get assigned th

21 to get his license plate to the secretary of state he wrote a check to paul powell.aughter] it turned out a lot of those checks really did go to paul powell and it goes on and on. four of the last governor's will wind up in jail so there certainly is a long history of political corruption, but i do think i would like to patrick fitzgerald said when he said this was pay to play a on steroids with rod blagojevich so he did manage to take into any level. >> the question when talking about the answer to this and the previous question is whether blagojevich is going to try his harper valley pta moment as somebody put it, we're wondering when he gave his speech of the end of his impeachment trial whether he was going to stand up there in the harper valley pta song when a woman says i may have done the wrong but you and you and you can maquis did that. >> some of that but only a little taste of what my,. >> we are waiting for the buck. >> the question is will he do that but is he going to put this into, that seems to be his version. everyone does this all along. >> absolute

colin powell being told in 2004 -- a track what happens with bush? bush ran in 2007i want to take over the world, i don't want to go into countries . >> guest: i can do this very quickly and if i can get to the chapter really quickly i want to redo -- i can more or less remember but listen to this quote by george w. bush. this is what george w. bush said that in 2000. >> host: you keep looking at it and i will cover with these words. it seems to me i have found the years 2001 and 2009 intensely painful politically because as a conservative because i saw a great coalition and a great movement director job like a pane of glass and splintered by keeping those that did not have that coalition in the '60s and '70s and '80s. i saw how hard it was to bring together. it broke my heart to see it broken and it broke my heart to see that you're not allowed to say that it was breaking. it was a terrible lie. >> guest: this is george w. bush in 2000. we must be judicious in our use of the military. we will find only one is in the vital interest of the united stat

imagined that former vice president cheney would say that he would pick rush limbaugh over colin powell when it came to republicans, but that is what he said and that is where the news was. so, you know i always tell young reporters, there are no bad questions. there are just that answers. a lot of young reporters assume, they feel like well if i ask that question they will think i'm dumb because they think i should know the answer. reporters are there to ask the other person in question, not to give their views, so don't be afraid to ask the question. asked the obvious questions first. every once in awhile he will get lucky like that and as a result of that comment, people wrote and follow the up for literally two weeks and then when i had colin powell on the broadcast two weeks later to see what he thought about that, we had another two weeks of information. it was a very important story though because what it was, it was the story about the soul of the republican party, where is the republican party, what does it want to be and where is it going to be? that is really what that was al

i was called back into the state department on the night of september 11 to meet with secretary powell and to work with colleagues through the night to come up with a strategy for assembling a coalition that would go after al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan. this is the strategy secretary powell took with them to the white house on the morning of september 12 and became the blueprint for watching would become operation -- the invasion of afghanistan to overthrow the taliban. i am very sorry that we took our eye off of that ball, it did not say that job through of actually defeating and destroying the people who carry out the september 11 attacks in the united states. instead, the bush administration to find a global war on terror, it did not finish the job against the people that had attacked us, and instead, it took us into your rock and ended up distorting our foreign policy -- took us into the rock -- into iraq. so in that sense, i would agree with you. i still regret we did not finish the job that we started of eliminating the threat posed by people who would actually carry ou

but there were tremendous tensions between rumsfeld's cantelon and powell's state department on a broad range of foreign policy and national-security issues and there was a lot of gamesmanship, a lot of need when. rumsfeld used to needle will in the national security council meetings sometimes rumsfeld for instance would pick on powell's pronunciation of the capitol of afghanistan told him he was putting the accent on the wrong symbol and how will would slash himself and try to get back at rumsfeld on his suits and so on. as for condoleezza rice, he was critical initially of her management of the national security council. >> host: did you talk to either of them for the book? >> guest: i talked to one of them. >> host: its water maryland on the independent line, good morning. >> caller: good morning, gentlemen. yes, i would like to ask the author part of the problem with rumsfeld's reputation comes from the fact no matter how good of the secretary defense you become, if you are a secretary who wants to be an agent of change as rumsfeld was to go in with slider forces and change the ment

i don't know if adam is lying boog powell, but boog never got all of one.he did it about 440 feet. >> bob: almost got it. >> jim p.: i think he got all that. i called him the paul bunyan of left-handed hitters. i'm talking about add a he's big and strong. >> rob: the scruffy beard, the gum hanging out of his mouth. >> jim p.: he's a big kid. i like the fact you said he was going to be a starting quarterback at texas. >> rob: oh, yeah. he's a much better athlete than people think. he can run, too. >> jim p.: after one ball goes about 450 or 60, that one goes about 75 feet for a base hit. the nationals have three consecutive hits here in the fourth. elijah dukes was slumping. four for his last 29 is next. we usually get a reading of how far the home runs go. >> rob: there's a lot of frustration pent up in that swing. >> bob: he hit one at citi field they're still talking about. went by the end of the third deck. >> rob: he's a little lazy with some of his off speed pitches. >> jim p.: i think what happens is he's more comfortable throwing his fastball. again,

among those military and security leaders calling for the closing of guantanamo are general colin powell, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and former secretary of state, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham, former republican secretaries of state james baker, henry kissinger and condeleeza rice, defense secretary robert gates, first appointed by president bush, admiral mike mull learning the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and general david petraeus. y yesterday senator kyl made a statement taking issue with some of my earlier comments about guantanamo. he asked -- quote -- "what is wrong with the prison at guantanamo?" let me respond to his question. what's wrong with guantanamo is that it is a recruiting tool for al qaeda and other terrorists. that isn't just my opinion. it's the opinion of military leaders based on their experience actually fighting wars in afghanistan and iraq. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen said the concern i've had about guantanamo is that it has been a recruiting symbol for those extremists and jihaddists

general powell is also an alumni of the college. indeed, it is hard to overstate the degree of which the foundation has enriched the experience of both students and staff at the college. its board of directors comprise of retired officers, business and community leaders, all of whom have a keen interest in improving the quality of the education provided to the college. i would like to commend the foundation's board and in particular its c.e.o., colonel robert hulen, u.s. army retired for the invabble work that he does to enhance the -- invaluable work that he does to enhance the college. he's a graduate and instructor of the college. i'd like to mention the five five star general commemorative coin act. this bill would authorize the u.s. treasury to mint five commemorative $1 and half dollar coins bearing these generals. these coins would honor the historic contributions these men have made in defense of justice and freedom they can collect. could i extend for 10 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: please complete your sentence. mr. b

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

[applause] any nation including iran should have the right to access peaceful nuclear powell -- power if it complies with the possibilities under the treaty. that commitment is at the core of the treaty and it must be kept for all to fully abide by it. i am hopeful that all countries in the region can share in the school -- in this goal. the fourth issue i will address is democracy. [applause] i know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years and much of this controversy is connected to the war in iraq. let me be clear. the system of government can or should be imposed by one nation by any other. that does not lessen my commitments to governments that reflect the will of the people. each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people. america does not presume to know what is best for everyone just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. but i do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things. the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are gov

i am also happy that colin powell is a republican.] >> a majority republican party will have lots of debates within the party. that is the nature of majorities. remember, reagan carried 49 states in 1984, and a lot of them were not hard-core conservatives. reagan won in 1980 by appealing to independent and unhappy democrats. there's not a single reagan speech where he doesn't say, "my fellow republicans and those independents and democrats who are looking for a better future." there were not enough republicans to win in 1980. there were not enough republicans to wind during that time. it was about 21% of believe. inclusion does not mean lack of principles.

. >> going back to the former secretary of state colin powell, we have made it clear that genocide happened in darfur. we can say this is clearly that the situation and are for it remains dire -- in darfur remains dire. we want to restore the humanitarian capacity. there is room in administration for a debate about the interpretation of the fact that go in that judgment. it does not change our policy now which is to focus on working as hard as we can to improve the situation and are for = = -- in darfur. >> can you say definitively yes or no? >> it is still taking place -- is it still taking place? >> all i can say is that we characterize the events going on in dar asfur genocide. -- in darfur as genocide. >> you had a foreign minister saying that this was not genocide. it is good that it is now being clearly stated. >> i did not find a response to be particularly credible. -- i do not find that response to be particularly credible. as the general pointed out yesterday, you have urgent and the multiple challenges going on in sudan at the same time. we recognize that in dealing with all of t

colin powell said on the eve of invasion of iraq, remember the pottery rule, if you break it, you own it. and we owned it for years. host: what is the state today? guest: iraq, so far so good. there are unresolved questions, the kurds in the north are essentially an independent country, they have their own flag and passports and oil. and the question is will iraq tolerate this session there. and second, once the united states is gone will the bitterness that's prevailed for generations continue to subside? or will be a resurgence of it? i don't know. host: cape coral, this is bill, democratic line. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. mr. will, i understand you have a vast amount of knowledge of this world. personally i consider you one of the vanguards of the party of no. you have a lot of proposals for the administration all the time. but i have never heard you seek a solution. now just like the house yesterday and the senate came up with a health bill. four pages long. and they were shaking it in front the tv's. they came up with nothing they told us. they said only

maybe boog powell will name a barbecue plate after the guy from texas. good slugging percentage.s really all that matters. how many times do you get around the bases and touch home plate. >> rob: and how many times do you run down a fly ball that the pitchers need caught. so he's doing a great job on both sides of the ball. >> bob: top of the third, nats lead 2-0. breaking ball, nasty. nolasco three strikeouts. willie harris two of them swinging. >> bob: guzman looks that one in and it just misses, ball one. >> rob: i had somebody call my radio show and thank you for reading those little billboards there, because he went and bought tickets for the game, up in baltimore. so he was very appreciative. so you can never read those enough i guess for the listeners. >> bob: don't forget about your family fun pack. >> rob: there you go. >> bob: it will be a great weekend coming up. the braves are in, free mini usa flags on saturday, 20,000 of them, fireworks friday night. and some good baseball, braves- nats. i'd like to say it's good to be back in the east, but when you're 6-27, let's h

this begins with a quote from a guy, and novelist named powell. he has no idea he has done this, he said one time in passing, they have the huge, giant head, the oddball design of a billiard ball. in the past week, i have become a buffalo, sort. the perfect specimen has the circumference of a baseball cap with full blair's. it is as dense as a gingersnap cookie with the color and texture of old cardboard that has been wet and dry out again. i am talking about buffalo dung, what is left of vegetation after passing through the digestive circuitry of north america's largest native land mammal also known as the american bison. they burn with orange colored flame surrounding a whole black center, offering good heat, not many sparks and blue smoke that smells like nothing you expect it to. i did my face in the smoke and pick of the odors of cinnamon and cloves, pumpkin and sometimes the smell of walking into a battered after someone smoked a joint. if i were to leave my buffalo chip right now it would take me half an hour to stop my way through what sep

to be careful because if you remember, there was a lot of work done with the un through secretary powell and the un ambassador and president bush to try to shaped it so saddam hussein and the suns could leave, there was the ultimatum before we went to war that they could go to exile, they didn't shoes that way. afterwards there was a lot of support in general for the iraqi effort. the insurgency started to build and americans were killed in greater numbers than in major combat. there was a time when we needed more, what are we really doing here? how did this all come about? the president has the pulpit, that is important. president bush did a lot of that. we always argue they do enough of that, he did a lot of that. has it went on, at his bully pulpit got smaller because of people's view of the iraqi war and he was not able to influence as effectively as he would have liked to. >> host: columbia, south carolina, this is paul. >> guest: good morning. general, i want to argue the point about going into iraq to begin with. i was a marine for 10 years and the air force. the thing is, once we

because six months earlier i had been on that street, powell street and i went into a place and why it forgotten all about it but just the location, that fought entered my mind and of those thoughts of wanting so we did in this experiment is we took people who have loss of control, cc asian and preoccupation with food and scanned their brain. first we cued them, we just gave them the smell. you can give them the smell, the site, sometimes the location, just getting in your car can be a cue. the car drives -- because you've driven past and once you get in the car you start thinking about what you're going to eat because you've been there. there's always a past experience that drives that anticipation that the first part of the experiment is we cued people and we saw people that had these three characteristics, the condition hyper eating syndrome. it is not a disease but it's very much a normal part of our new make out. what we saw is the people that have this condition have hyperactive asian during the anticipation phase in the edna padilla and reward pathway in their brain and was pron

i am also happy that colin powell is a republican. [applause] >> a majority republican party will have lots of debates within the party. that is the nature of majorities. remember, reagan carried 49 states in 1984, and a lot of them were not hard-core conservatives. reagan won in 1980 by appealing to independent and unhappy democrats. there's not a single reagan speech where he doesn't say, "my fellow republicans and those independents and democrats who are looking for a better future." there were not enough republicans to win in 1980. in fact, we were i believe 21% of the electorate by the end of 1979. now, inclusion does not mean lack of principles. like reagan, and calista and i did a movie some of you saw last night with "ronald reagan" like reagan i am for first principles. tonight i am going to apply first principles to three areas. one, strengthening our unique american civilization. two, strengthening our national and homeland security. three, building a productive america with the best jobs and the greatest prosperity in the

there was the emergence since the '60's of what justice powell once called nine little law firms, little bureaucracies within the chamber. i think there is also quite a difference of how the conferences are conducted by the chief justice. whether it is chief justice warren, or chief justice burger or chief justice roberts, they are different. the chief justice comment add moment ago about the difficulty of lawyers getting guidance from courts where there are splintered opinions, i think that multiple opinions are more common now than they were 40 years ago. number 7, a phenomena that i can't explain, some people call it the great shrinking docket. the supreme court, there was a time when they would decide after a brief and arguments something like 150 cases, this term here, fewer than 80 cases will have been assigned in that fashion, so that is certainly not something that everyone is sure about. those are just a few of the differences. now, i don't want to suggest that it is a complete and different tribunal, an organic supreme court. tradition is very important, but the court operates

that have topped with sauce that have made this quote exactly but it goes along the lines of justice powell and that is there for been numerous times when the way that my mind and my depue of a case shapes out of an oral argument after the way i fought with shoup prior and we often see on the news and in newspapers and online not from news reporters and others is the court affirmed the decision and the reader has been guilty in the past of this as well that it's been a firm or the lower court has been reversed. the case isn't about seven to two or five to four or nine to zero, it is about the substantive law created in the case. there's others who have talked about how oral arguments can affect the decisions. it's not affecting their votes most of the time but what it is affecting is their view of the court sets there for a justice may continue to say i am going to a firm but in the and maybe she has persuaded so it doesn't go as far as she thought it would prior to the argument or maybe it goes earlier than that, so the point is and for my own research and i know some research paul has don

nation's leaders trace their roots to the caribbean such as our former secretary of state, colin powell, attorney general, eric holder, assistant secretary of the exterior designee and supreme court nominee, sonia sotomayor. but there are many others. we may look back as far as the period to the 1900's', to the 1920's, which marked the initiation of mass labor migration from the caribbean to the united states and the formation of the first large caribbean communities here in this country. we should not forget world war i, when the recruitment of labor from the caribbean became empirtive, more than 100,000 caribbean laborers were recruited for agricultural and tedious jobs as par as -- part of war laborers. we should acknowledge the caribbean men and women who served our country and those who continue to serve this country overseas in its conflicts today. so i feel it's been an honor and a privilege as a caribbean american whose roots fly cuba, an tiga, st. kitts and the danish west indies, now the virnlen islands, to host this hour with the congressional black caucus is recognize and pa

there was the immersion cents in the '60s of what justice powell once: nine little law firms, little bureaucracies as they were, more law clerks and more work done within each chamber. i think also there is quite a difference in how the conference is conducted by the chief justice, the style of chief justice warren, chief justice burger and rehnquist. i think they differed a lot from each other. and finally i think the growth of multiple opinions, chief justice commented a moment ago about a minute -- and difficulty of lawyers getting guidance from courts or you have splintering of opinions. i think the multiple opinions are more common now than there were 40 years ago. number seven, a phenomenon that i can't explain in some people, the great shrinking dockets. the supreme court, there was a time when they would decide after an argument something like 100 and two cases, this term to read and 80 cases will have been decided in that fashion. why that is so is certainly not something that anybody can be sure about. and those i think you're just a few of the differences. i want to sugges

but as colin powell put it very well, you can't eat plutonium. if he chooses simply to stand up to the other powers, simply to go for strength and not for prosperity, that's not a very good solution for him. and it's certainly not a good solution for his successor whenever that person takes power down the road. so kim jong-il needs to move. >> so if any of you can respond to this question. is there any danger at all that in -- just going back to the table and pursuing this other route which i think you have to do it 'cause i don't think you have many choices. what is the danger level with respect to the reward of that behavior argument? >> well, clearly what we want to do is reward good behavior. and you only do things where, as i suggested with one kind of series of steps, you only do things when they do things that you want them to and you structure the deals that way. the fact is we didn't always do that and that's a sad fact here. north korean behavior is inexcusable. what they're doing now, i don't have to tell you is harmful to them, harmfu

responsibility to end tyrrany across the globe, you have gone so are beyond the weinberger doctrine and the powell doctrine that says we, shore only when absolutely necessary to protect u.s. interests and when we do we throw everything that we have at it, we kill the enemy, we achieved our objective and we bring our men and women serving in uniform home. that was radical. the $7 trillion spin on medicare over the past eight years radical. it is a program that is going bankrupt and the republicans had a $7 trillion burning to that debt. in so this is how we've got to show restraint and understand the realities that are in front of us in conservatism is the answer. i believe and i talked about in this book we are coming entrusting i am right on this. we are coming upon a great conservative era of in american politics. how of the? because we have no choice. we are out of money, we're going to have to make tough decisions in regard because of what george w. bush did but especially because what barack obama is doing. the spending is remarkable. he has admitted we are out of money, he has admitted h

and among those who also disagree with his viewpoint would be general colin powell, former chairman ofhe joint chiefs of staff, former secretary of state under president bush. he believes that it should be closed. general petraeus, someone i know the senator from kentucky has praised on the floor of the united states senate. he believes guantanamo should be closed. they aren't alone. robert gates, secretary of defense under president bush and now under president obama, believes it should be closed. senator mccain on your side of the aisle has stated publicly that guantanamo should be closed. senator lindsey graham, on your side of the aisle, has stated publicly it should be closed. former secretaries of state have made the same statements. now, he is entitled to his point of view. i respect him for holding that point of view even if he doesn't have the support from the security and military leaders that i just mentioned. but to come to this floor and repeatedly say to the american people that we are in danger because we are trying terrorists in the coforts america -- in the courts of a