i'm happy to welcome tonight to the day robert kagan who joins us from washington mr kagan it's good to have you on the program i want to ask you what is the purpose of mr stoltenberg address to congress is he strengthening the ties that bind or is he trying to save those ties that trump has not already sever. well i suppose you could say he's doing both i think it's a very strong statement by a bipartisan majority in congress that they support and continue support and then alliance that served american interests so well for over step for seven hears and i do think they are sending a clear signal to president trump who has raised doubts about the american it's a nato in a way that we've not seen since that alliance was first organized the worries at nato are they a symptom of a greater unraveling well i think so i mean that look at the heart of this security alliance is the american commitment it was an extraordinary commitment it was an unusual commitment it was certainly a product of circumstances post world war two the dawn of the cold war and i think it even before donald trump t

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roberts? >> kagan maybe. i think she's sort of in that mold. she could be. or roberts.andra day o'connor. here's the question, would she get nominated by this republican president in this republican field today? >> not a chance. when she came on the court, ronald reagan loved her and was proud of her, but she had no judicial track record. he wasn't even -- she was a state appeals judge. no chance trump or any modern republican president would appoint here. >> let's get back to pete buttigieg. great book. first, great title. >> thank you. >> let me ask you about this, buttigieg, when he goes after people in their 70s, was he taking a little shot at biden? >> it's biden, it's that whole generation. look, he's the millennial guy. >> he's half as old. >> exactly. he's half as old. he wants to capture that youth vote. again, i don't know if that's going to be enough, but right now it makes him the most engaging person. >> are they picking a nominee to beat trump or just somebody they like? >> the great thing about trump is that he changed all the rules. there are no rules. a

tom: i want to go to robert kagan's piece out of brookings. in europe, is that your opportunity to acquire e.u. banking assets? to thearo has commitment e.u. banking model with addictive dividends. can you participate? michael: it has been a terrible place to be. a client asked me about the european banks yesterday. they may have bottomed. it is a difficult industry with a lot of structural headwinds, a central bank committed to negative interest rates which everyone understands does not help. i guess if you like clipping coupons, i don't think they are dangerous. tom: this goes back to richard haass' theory, if you do not have your act together at home it is difficult to project foreign policy. we can state unequivocally that europe does not have its act together. do they have a foreign policy or a selection of photo opportunities? michael: i do not think any of them have a particularly interesting foreign policy. tom: it is not just trump. michael: the united kingdom removed itself from global the united gideon: kingdom removed itself from g

roberts, 64. justice sotomayor, 64. clarence thomas, 70. elena kagan 58. mr. gorsuch its 51.rett kavanaugh is 54. joan: you got them exactly right. brian: what does that say? joan:it says the younger ones are the conservatives the two in their 80's are the liberals. depending on what happens to any of these 9 and president trump gets another appointee, the court could move further to the right. so much hangs on who is going to be -- so much hangs on for the nation and for the supreme court of will becomes president in 2020 because of these ages. brian: how many years have you covered the court? joan: full-time, since 1989. when i started at the washington post as a supreme court reporter it was 1992. brian: your first appearance on this network. 1990. we are going to show a little bit of it right now. joan: this is my punishment for coming on. brian: no punishment. joan: all right. [video clip] >> the headline with justice scalia. what is he like? joan: very argumentative. very engaging. he will go after with -- a awyer with real vigor. very entertaining. he seems to be one o

roberts justice clarence thomas senator alito brett kavanaugh you know basically also very all the conservative all the conservative judges dissenting you had sort of my or kagan is just a good burger. who has continued to them justice breyer was also as well on that side so you know that's basically wow this kind of shaped but it's interesting when you look at you know the arguments that this is because of the big argument is was this torture was this an exciting extraneous amount of torture that was put on the sky right so right and one of the issues is that this wasn't this wasn't a. case about sort of the broader issues of the use of lethal injection and it wasn't even a broader issue of just lethal injection and it's specific or the death penalty. if you watch this show you know it's like no we should be really having this conversation like in my and there are a lot of our opinions as this is just silly to begin with we shouldn't it's just so cruel and barbaric but what it's doing is it's challenging the methods in relation to that exact particular prisoner. as sort of my you are pointed out we do make a. options we make exceptions when someone is incapab

got to the supreme court, chief justice john roberts voted to uphold it and then voted to strike it down. associate justices stephen breyer and elena kaganwitched their votes to go with him on that. brian: explain what happened behind the scenes. joan: you have an unusual three days of oral arguments in late march of 2012. they meet for the first time in their conference at friday.and vote it is 5-4 to strike down the individual mandate. chief justice roberts was leaving the way. they also vote on medicaid. they vote to uphold that, which is what they had done. they don't vote at all on congresses taxing power. i mention that because, in the end, the whole decision becomes hinged on congresses taxing power. in 2012 they don't vote on that at all. it does not seem to matter. behind the scenes, chief justice roberts has a change of heart. he does not want to strike down the individual mandate and have the whole thing fall. brian: for those who have not paid close attention to when you say individual mandate. joan: that is a requirement where everybody has health insurance either through their employer on the marketplace exchanges. the idea

roberts: ok. so, if you lose, then you would not be able to restrict trademarks on the ground that they're obscene? mr. stewart: i -- i think that's -- i think that's correct. justice kagan: and --and just so i could understand, you're asking us to narrow this statute to exactly what? mr. stewart: to marks that are offensive, shocking to a substantial segment of the public because of their mode of expression, independent of any views that they may express. and -- justice ginsburg: suppose -- suppose in the niche market that these goods are targeting, the -- the name is -- the word is mainstream. these --these goods, as i understand it, are meant to attract a particular market, and if we concentrate on that market, from their perception, the word is mainstream. mr. stewart: i don't think that would be an appropriate means of proceeding, and -- and let me explain why if i may. if you look, for instance, at george carlin's filthy words monologue, the monologue that was at issue in pacifica, that's a paradigmatic example of profane copyrightable expression. now our society has reached a good accommodation where people who find the carlin monologue funny or thought-provoking

kagan: and would it be right to say, general, that it was the census bureau's conclusion, a bureau full of statisticians that was driving differential response rates? ms. underwood: that is correct. chief justice roberts: are there other questions on the census for which the administrative records provide more accurate information? ms. underwood: there is nothing in the record about that. chief justice roberts: well, then i don't want to hear about it. ms. underwood: ok. [laughter] justice sotomayor: could you answer the general's point that, if you rely on 6(c), then you shouldn't be even asking this on the acs form? ms. underwood: no. for one thing, in order to do modeling, in order to do sampling, they need some survey data to compare it to. and so some judgments can be made and the judgment might be made that the acs or some questionnaire that doesn't involve harm to the count that is sampling, or some other form less than universal questioning, that testing questions on that kind of instrument is the way to do it. chief justice roberts: thank you. thank you, general. mr. ho. mr. ho: mr. chief justice and may it please the court: the secretary's decision rested primarily on one assertion, that it