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flanagan, roberts.here, that's not a good tackle. >> the referee -- it's just youth, isn't it, enthusiasm. makes his mark on those liverpool players. he's late there on jordan henderson. that's just a desire to do well for his team. >> first contribution and receives a yellow card. >> roberts has gone up alongside rondon so a change in tactics, 4-4-2 for the home side. >> fans always like to see young players given their chance. you wonder how much of a chance they'll get next season. as we mentioned earlier, with the money around these days there may well be lots of recruitment coming up but they stressed the importance of recruitment this area. it's an area west brom hopes to address and they brought in mickey hammond, whose main job is to oversee that process. >> when you're making your debut at the age of 17, that tells you that he must be very talented. >> here's chester. yacob. roberts. rondon jumping there with skrtel. rondon was maybe caught by a flailing arm, that's what tony pulis thought. tha

robert: i don't know. this is a tough one.o you want me to give a separate forecast for clinton versus trump as winning the election? mark: if you could. and how the housing market might be affected. robert: it is a wild guess of psychology. if trump's president, that will be a real revolution. probably good for the stock market initially -- then we will have to see how he performs as president. that is another question. quentin,nton? robert: -- clinton, if she is elected, it will be business as usual. continuing the obama age. he came in at a bad time. it has become more normal. i think that that is the expectation people would draw. mark: thank you for giving us your assessment of the election, the housing market, the u.s. economy, and otherwise. robert shiller of the yale university. m&a in energy, companies across the u.s. consolidating in a billion-dollar deal. the latest on great plains energy and was star. westar. ♪ mark: from london and new york i am mark barton. betty: i am betty liu. you're watching bloomberg "market

the robert welch read the speech and latched onto it. he went to make -- macon, georgia visited with parents, told him that he believed the sum was a great patriot, compared and the nathan hale, the revolutionary war hero and said that he would bring recognition to their son that he deserved despite the fact that the us military and government had refused even to award birch a purple heart because the us was not at war with the communists in 1945. robert welch never met birch and never visited china. but george and ethyl birch and they are with their children, holding a portrait of john, open to this proposition. ethyl birch gave welch material that she had been collecting for her home biography of her son. welch wrote a sort of a yahoo which was as much a political platform as it was a biography. it is a frustrating book. welch calls him a heroic young patriot who recognize the dangers of communism on before others. just echoing what no one had already said, the death was deliberate and unjustified killing and claimed that birch at sacr

we will be talking about the robert court -- the roberts court go in one direction if mr. trump wins and another direction if mrs. clinton wins. chief justice john roberts, he, too, learned to be a judge in new york city. he, too, was a clerk to henry friendly. the justice whose demise created this vacancy, antonin scalia a, was a new yorker. azhar elena kagan, justice ginsburg. justice alito is not from that far away -- newark. i know it's on the other side of the bridge. it's very much a new york story we will be exploring together this evening. account of the structure of that relationship and in particular, there are two big points. there is a tidal pattern to the american presidency. and this tidal pattern creates face-offs at moments in american history between presidents and justices. so, here is the structure, the situation of the constitution. our justices are chosen politically. justices do not pick their successors quite. it's not a self-perpetuating meritocracy the way that yale law school will pick it successors. the way the cardinals pick the pope and the pop

[laughter] robert: leon gave me bad news. he is still going. if you could show your face and leave after the second inning that would be great. leon: that may make me leave. maureen: brings them bad luck. leon: nats-marlins. are they still on cloud nine after scherzer's record-breaking performance? preview next in sports. robert: all right. nats starting off a four-game set with the marlins today. i would hate to be gio gonzalez tonight. he has a hard act to follow after max scherzer struck out 20 batters wednesday. it happened two days ago and you have a good team coming in with the marlins tonight. the first pitch is 7:05. daniel murphy says it is time to come back down to earth. daniel: the farther you get appreciate. i'll appreciate being part of it. but right now we have the marlins in up to and need to get the series off to the right foot. >> we played them so many times. we haven't played the mets this year. a long way to go with them. the marlins are a good team. right there in the division. over john is to get a win tonight try to dist

robert deniro is talking about his new film. robert deniro is back in cannes this week for a tribute to his career, and the man who won an oscar for "raging bull" is stepping back into the ring. he stars as the manager and coach of a panamanian boxer in the new movie "hand of stone." we met up with the acting legend and his classmates from the film. >> i have trained more world champs than anyone else in boxing history. in 66 seconds, roberto changed my life. reporter: 40 years after "taxi driver," which won the top award here in cannes, you are back and you say you are excited to be back, especially with that movie. white? -- why? robert: yeah, it's great. this was in here 40 years ago. reporter: you have a passion for boxing. robert: yeah, i mean, it is a great exercise i try to do from time to time. i wish i did it more. i'm a boxing fan but i don't go to fight a lot unless it is summary i know or they asked me to go where it is a real temperature fight i want to see -- or it is a real temperature fight i want to see. reporte

robert burton is there. robert: i hope that you are breathing easy now because tuesday in pittsburgh we will be breathing heavy again. sports is coming up. >> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. robert: welcome back to verizon, where the monkey is not completely off the capitals' back. we have to wait until tuesday's game six. at verizon tonight, a big one, the caps get on the board early. in the first, the caps on the power play, nicklas backstrom to ovie, 1-0. in the second, the game tied at 1-1, ovechkin shoots the one-timer, t.j. oshie lights the lamp. they win 3-1. >> when we have pressure, it is kind of our time. the guys respond well. we have a great group of guys here, we believe in each other. robert: braden holtby had a fire in him tonight, always has a fire, but a little extra tonight. he was really great. the really stepped up when we needed him, especially in the second period. it was awesome. >> the pressure is on this team until somebody has four wins.

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justice roberts: there is -- mr. dreeben: now -- justice roberts: given the difficulty that we're having in settling on what these words in the statute mean, there is a an argument in the petitioner's brief that you have responded to in yours that the statute is unconstitutionally vague. mr. dreeben: i do not think it is unconstitutionally vague. first of all, we're talking here about multiple statutes. we're talking about hobbs act extortion, which this court previously construed in both mccormick and evans to be perfectly valid upon the proof of a quid pro quo when the official asserts that his action will be controlled by a thing of value that he has received. and now we're talking about the question of what constitutes "official action" for the purposes of a common law crime that goes back centuries and was incorporated into the hobbs act. we're also talking about the honest services statute, which this court in skilling just six years ago determined could be construed -- justice roberts: well, yeah, "could be co

his name is john roberts. you know? and he is a smarter and younger and better looking version of john kasich, you see? [laughter] dr. amar: just saying. course, what i just said is preposterous because actually -- and good for him. justice roberts, if you see this on c-span, you have a big fan and yours truly. and you have learned your law from the great henry friendly, who taught merrick garland and many others, and henry friendly believed that the law was different from politics. and so do you and so do i and we are lucky. >> i have a question. yes?mar: >> have any justices been impeached and how would you do it if you could? i have a couple in mind. theamar: remember in 1960's, i told you that the court was reviled by the right. the john birch society and others. major bumper stickers -- chef but i missed those. dr. amar: you shouldn't have. you were an infant. impeachh earl warren -- earl warren." john marshall is afraid if he actually orders thomas jefferson jefferson appoints this guy marbury to this position. th

robert burton is there. robert: i hope that you are breathing easy now because tuesday in pittsburgh we will be breathing heavy again. sports is coming up.

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the swing vote was by chief justice roberts.s i explain in the book and i tell the story about the obama case which todd is sitting in second row, chief justice roberts affirmed that republican limits by federal power, this is chief justice roberts holding that the individual purchased mandates were indeed beyond congress power and the necessary improper clauses. on the other hand, he then invoke it had democratic constitution of judicial restraint adopting what he called a saving construction that turned the individual insurance requirement into an option to buy insurance or pay a modest noncoercive tax. as he put it, quote, granting the act, the full measure of difference owed to federal statute, it can be so read. and he then defended the move, it is not our job to protect the people from consequences of political joyces, end quote. perhaps he expect it had split debate to be received by conservatives, but it wasn't. many on the right were outraged what they believed -- because they believe it was the job of the supreme court

nbc bay area's robert handa joins us. sources are telling you some harrowing moments at the home before the shots rang out. >> well, that's right. acording to the sources, the suspect and an accomplice terrorized the victims in a home invasion and an investigation is going on to continue to figure out the man we saw in court today. andre redman came into the courtroom head down. the 43-year-old was charged with two counts of murder. first for the shooting death of robert bob harden at his home wednesday morning. sources say redman and an acomb plis bound and gagged his son and a family friend, shen shot harden while demanding money. the prosecutor talked cautiously about the case. >> what i can say is that this was a violent home invasion that took place. >> reporter: harden's wife marlene today provided pictures to us and called the husband and father of three a loving family man who lost his life to a terrible act of violence. sources say deputies chased redman on highway 17 when he crashed on the hamilton avenue exit.

justice roberts: geshenhorn. a identified' like to make two points on the merits but i'd like to start what this court going to start were standing. we agree apellants lack standing to peevement they allege the district court judgment may cause them harm by adding voters to the district of a different political party who may vote against them. but candidates have no legally cognizable interest in the particular composition of the voters in their district. >> is that true when the legislature specifically has adopted incumbency protection as matter of state law or policy? >> your honor, i think if they had adopted as a matter of state law incumbency protection, that might be different because the legislature would have established that actually as a legally cognizable right. but that is not what's at interest here. if i could say, your honor, with that -- what's at issue here is whether a candidate has an interest in a particular composition of his voirts. we think your honor's own solution in lulac is quite instr

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joining him is professor robert kelchen. welcome to you both. who will give me the 30 second elevator pitch. >> we definitely can agree that university has sky rocketed over the last couple decades. we want to highlight on the front end students are going to school and reporting over 60% are not socially, emotionally o academically ready for school. that means when they're getting into the classroom they're dropping out at a rate hovering over 50%. >> when students graduate they tend to do pretty well but debt and no degree is the worst possible outcome in a outcome that students never think they will be in. >> you guys did a much better job and kept it under 30 seconds. i love that all right. now we asked our studio audience before the show is college worth the price tag. 57% say yes. so you guys begin with 43% at the moment saying no. we'll take a second vote tend of the show and see if any minds got changed. now you folk at home we want you to chime in as well go on-line pbs.org/point taken. team yes. you guys say yes college is worth the pri

it is a thriller starring george clooney and julia roberts and is directed by jodie foster.looney plays a financial tv talkshow host who was taken hostage after giving a bad tip, and julia roberts is the producer calmly speaking in his ear. "money monster" had its world and whilen cannes, jodie foster the director has been coming here since she was 13 with "taxi driver," for julia roberts this is the first festival ever. >> without risk, there is no reward. >> who is that guy on camera 2? >> is this a union thing? >> stay calm, i am right here. reporter: a celebration of capitalism gone wrong. in the show "money monster," a finance group gives advice on how to invest in the stock market. but after a company he backs goes bankrupt, a disillusioned viewer decides to get his revenge by taking him hostage. for her fourth film as director, jodie foster tried to get a human dimension to the financial thriller. : there is constant helicopters and guns and bombs, and you know, fast-paced excitement and all that. but ultimately, the real jewel in it is the relationship between these

tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- robert downey jr. amy sedaris.usical guest, chance the rapper. and featuring the legendary rootcrew. >> questlove: 465! >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh! if that doesn't that make you feel good, i don't know what makes you feel good. hot crowd tonight. welcome, everybody. welcome to "the tonight show." this is it, baby! you made it! this is it! welcome, everybody. thank you so much. you guys, today is cinco de mayo. [ cheering ] or as donald trump calls it, may 5th. [ laughter ] actually, it seems like donald trump may actually be into cinco de mayo based on the tweet he sent out today and this is real. it says, "happy cinco de mayo, the best taco bowls are made in trump tower grill. i love hispanics." [ cheers and applause ] "and the best jalapeno poppers can be found at the t.g.i. fridays in secaucus, new jersey. i love authentic mexican food. i love authentic mexican food. senor frogs." [ laughter ] after he ate that whole thing, melania asked him to build a

[chewbacca sounds] robert: it's the left.imberly: i can't -- perhaps you have seen this video one line this week, losing it after buying the chewbacca mask. i thought it was more than 100 million people, it was a huge number, and she cannot stop laughing at the fast that the mask makes the signature noise from star wars. spparently the folks from kohl' noticed. they showed up at her house in texas and showed up with masks and "star wars" merchandise from the movie. the koh robert: they don't need any more of those masks. kimberly: kohl's has never had a better free commercial. she is havingoo much fun with that mask. kimberly: i cannot stop watching. that's awesome.

fortunately, robert welch, for my purposes, robert welch was prolific. he was actually quite a brilliant man. he graduated from university of north carolina at the age of 17, attended the u.s. naval academy for two years, attended harvard law school for two years and they decided, got married and became a businessman. but welch produced reams of material, had a monthly magazine, still lives, and magazine called new american that the birch society puts a. produced no end of lectures, videos, materials for it. the local members to discuss and review and so forth. he gave some speeches. all of this is pretty widely covered in a meeting at the time so the plan of material, more than enough about the birch society itself, which i do we think you the story to explain how and why the name of birch was used. >> i'm going to slip any question, co-chairs prerogative. i'm surprised about the difficulty in finding a publisher. i find it absolutely engaging story. i mean it held my attention from start to finish and judy recover a john birch very different from the o

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justice roberts: i thought your -- mr.opper: so that that's a unique result of the of the jurisdictional determination, and does not follow from the from the statute. under the statute, we should be exempt. under the jurisdictional determination, we have to get a permit. justice roberts: i thought your answer might focus on the fact that this is of great benefit to the agency, because by issuing the determinations, they are able to exercise extraordinary leverage without going through the formal enforcement process. so it does give them it is a way for them to exercise their authority without effective judicial review. and that's a significant enforcement tool for them. so they might be unwilling to give it up if they had the option. mr. hopper: i think there's no question they're not going to give it up. they have they have nothing to lose. the in almost all cases, the recipient of the jurisdictional determination defers to the judgment of the agency. and as you say, it is used for leverage. in fact, i would even say it t

as we know, however, the fifth swing vote was by chief justice roberts. as i explained in the boat can i tell the story of the obama carry case in which i got interested in the second row plays a prominent role in the first chapter of the book, chief justice roberts affirmed every public and limit on the scope of federal power by holding, chief justice roberts holding that the individual purchase mandates were indeed beyond congress' power under the commerce the necessary and proper clause says. on the other hand, you then invoke the democratic constitution restrained adopting what he called a saving construction that turned the individual insurance requirement into an option to buy insurance or pay a modest noncoercive tags. as he put it, quote, granting the act the full measure of deference owed to federal statute, it can be so rad. he then defended this move by insisting that it is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices, unquote. perhaps he expected the split approach to be received by conservatives with equa

robert will fall it -- robert la follette junior would have the senate seat which he would occupy for the next 21 years. lesson 23: regressive activism is a lifelong commitment -- progressive activism is a lifelong commitment. husband's death, she not only kept the magazine phil wast her oson elected to wisconsin governor. she also continued to advise wisconsin governor james freer to remind the folks over and over again of the cost of world war and to give concrete suggestions and ways and means in preventing another war. her husband'sng biography was her top priority as the nation sank deeper into the deep depression, she could not resist continuing to campaign for progressive solutions to problems old and new. she denounced president herbert hoover for doing too little to alleviate the current unemployment, publicly criticizing him for being a friend of the public power trust. she campaigned to save the children's bureau and spoke about the efforts of mahatma's of gandhi. only her death in 1931 brought an end to her activism. so the final lesson, give credit where it is due. deserv

robert: the french come back.he decisions are made by the allied powers of the french will have colonies back and thus begins the war. >> a momento to that, clark welch, a company commander in battle,who survived the he hadied a tommy gun gotten from the vietcong soldier in an earlier battle. tommy gunse of the showing that odd connection over the decade. war, ane end of the agreement is made. a reluctant ho chi minh excepts a temporary partition of vietnam with a clear understanding that there will be a free election in 10 years to determine this. marilyn: election was to be in two years. ho chi minh wanted it in months. a compromise was two years. time was criticized at the for compromising but you have to understand the chinese had visions, and the anon's historical imagery with china, ho chi minh famously said i french shit smell for six years then eat chinese shit. promise -- the promised election was not held the war results, french are driven out in less than 16 years and america enters. let's set that asid

the fifth the swing vote was by chief justice roberts. as i clean in the book and i tell the story of the obama case in which he plays a prominent role in the first chapter of the book, chief justice roberts affirmed that republican limits on the scope of federal power by holding, this is chief justice holding that the individual purchase mandates will indeed beyond congresses power congresses power under the commerce and the necessary and proper clauses. on the other hand, he then invoked to the democratic restraint adopting what he calls a saving construction that turned the individual insurance requirement into an option to buy insurance or pay a modest noncoercive tax. as he put it, quote granting the act, the full measure of difference owed to federal statute, it can be so red. he then defended this move by insisting that quote, it is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices, unquote. now perhaps he expected to split the baby approach to be received by conservatives with equanimity. but it wa

it stars julia roberts and george clooney. it's in theaters this friday.sian roulette. higgin, would you like to explain how this works? >> steve: of course, james! [ laughter ] here in my hand, i have one dozen eggs. eight of them have been hard boiled. four of them are still raw. you and jodie will take turns selecting one egg at a time and smashing them upon the top of your head. you will not know which eggs are raw! [ laughter ] once you choose an egg, you must smash that egg upon the top of your head, no put backs. first one to smash two raw eggs on their head loses. jodie, as the guest on the show, you may go first. [ whispering ] choose wisely. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: good luck, good luck, good luck. >> i can't wait. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: welcome to the show. thank you so much for being here. >> you forgot what the name of my company was. >> jimmy: that's right. >> egg pictures. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: one nothing! angle right there, that's a a good angle right there. good conditioner, right? >> put a little avocado in there, coconut oil.

he has trouble with justice roberts, but justice roberts is a conservative. the people he's named like pryor. >> conservative john roberts. did you air quote that in. >> i think he kind of showed his true colors with the obamacare -- >> i don't even know what to say. >> you look surprised. >> i am surprised. i don't think there's any doubt that john roberts is a conservative. >> i mean he -- >> even i have my issues with john roberts. >> conservative in name only. but was it -- anyway, so this should assuage the concern of many conservative who said donald trump is not a true conservative because of where he is on the bathroom issue. because of where he is on different issues eerks note hard-line right conservative. but the 11 people he picked for the supreme court certainly are. six federal court of appeals judges. five state supreme court judges, all of whom are on record with opinion being very, very conservative. this is all good news. the heritage foundation said donald trump a couple of weeks ago, maybe, a couple of months ago perhaps and said here's a

>>here is stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly: >>stanley roberts: in just three minutes after stopping on high with trout and now offers a kellogg of the not all of those of the california highway patrol cactuses for speed and surely after that was another one the driver was about to cancel his trip to wine country the next be registered 75 on the line are gone to panama this was a very first time in her entire life getting pulled over and was apologizing over and again. >>stanley roberts: this driver was born 78 the sea its fee is cracking down and apple--napa my advice is to slow down. >>reporter: by the end of the week we do all over again by the way if you're in trouble toward the east and one to take a trip to the mountain content of sunshine the new numbers of fifties, most of the perimeter from oakland and hayward 52 and about 59 napa 49 for santa rosa and the upper 50s are also pretty much in control of the far east bank we stick with the theme is to go for the next several days. >>reporter: 97 friday the beaches and 72 and a from the bay med '80s territory drivi

following the death of robert will fall it --robert la follette in 1925, many were asking her to fulfill her husband's unfinished term. she could easily become the first woman senator but she chose not to run. a petition signed by hundreds of women asked, "dear mrs. la follette, would you, can you, turn away from your heritage of the people and the shepherd of the flock?" many people saw that her standing aside to let her son run it was a typically shrewd move. it was ambitious first of all that their shared ideas of social justice, which were also her ideals, should prevail. according to phil la follette, this would be more of a tribute to her late husband is that of a serious clinical investment. by virtue of his facts as well as his age, robert junior would be for more likely than his mother to be repeatedly reelected and therefore lead the la follette progressive movement to come, thereby solidifying its legacy. robert la follette junior would have the senate seat which he would occupy for the next 21 years. lesson 23: regressive activism is a lifelong commitment -- progressive activ

robert la follette. i put that in and got 700 hits. you have to be thinking in the context of the time. lesson 22: strategic, long-term thinking usually beats knee-jerk reaction. following the death of robert la petitionsn 1925, circulated among members of the wisconsin legislator asking belle to become a candidate to fill her husband's unexpired term. she could easily become the first woman senator. but she chose not to run. a petition signed by hundreds of women asked, dear mrs. la follette, will you, can you turn away from your heritage, your people, your shepherd list block? shepherdless flock? but those who knew her thought her refusal to run in favor of her son was a typically shrewd move. she was ambitious for her husband and their sons, and ambitious first of all that their shared ideals of social justice, which were also her ideals, should prevail. according to phil la follette, his mother recognized her term would be granted more as a tribute to her late husband than as a serious political investment. by virtue of his sex as

robert wilson is the author of the recent biography "mathew brady: portraits of a nation."obert wilson, welcome to "the drexel interview." >> thanks so much for having me. >> mathew brady is considered by many people as the