you talk also about how justice roberts that era as justice roberts started ruling with roosevelt because the politics of the earth so affected you know we now have a couple of justices justice. thomas whose wife is very involved in politics and justice scalia is has participated in fact the two of them just created several called brother funded events. is there a precedent is there a history of supreme court justices not just being partisan i know some of them come out of the senate for example things like that but actually be participating in activist types of abounds and if so does that happen on both conservative side of the liberal side and what's going on with it right now historically it has happened from time to time on both sides and justice douglas for example i'm keen under fire for his partisan political activities he was very interested in becoming president of the united states and did some not so subtle agitation toward that end having failed in that he thought he might be interested in becoming roosevelt's vice president in nineteen forty four again this was not a secret a

to discuss the language question i'm joined by robert philips and in copenhagen he is professor emeritus at the copenhagen business school in paris we go to john paul nidia he's author of the book don't speak english parlayed globish and in hong kong we have david read all he is a distinguished visiting scholar at city university of hong kong and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk we can jump in anytime you want to jump oh i'd like to go to you you have a new i suppose a language or policy language that you're introducing to the world and it's called globalists and how is it different from english and if you could for partly could you answer in globish forests oh there globish is english even mens to be very correct english but it is what we call english lite it is a simplified form of english with miss words he would six hundred fifty thousand words in your thought he should marry that's way too much so i make to be most fish and that was fifteen hundred words and to choose one of those words to de mint leaves of those words y

formulation ok robert if i go to you in copenhagen is this just jibberish bad english. i think it's very clear that. when you are in the real world you obviously have to communicate as best you can i am worried by the idea that a simplified form of english like that isn't it's a bit like mcdonald is asian it's a package version which apparently will give you the satisfaction that you need whereas in the real world. people don't really function like that they negotiate meaning they try to get through and as an educational goal i think they need to be exposed to relinquish as it is used in a whole range of contexts so i'm a bit worried that this is a quick fix in some way whereas learning english you have to be culturally sensitive depending on who you're speaking to which part of the world you are what your goals are it's a much more complex task than what globish claims to be capable of achieving ok david i mean it's a very good point do you know the mcdonnell ization of english but that's the trend in the world that everything's getting mcdonnell lies i think john paul

robert m. but what is crazy is that -- check this out -- he says in the chat that he is 28. >> that ain't no 28. >> there's no way he's 28. >> in fact he was 68 years old. we see a lot of fibbing online about ages, but it's usually five or ten years, you know, not 40 years. >> this is his picture, right? that's his sex offender arrest picture. it's the same guy. >> yeah. yeah. >> everything is the same. >> when you think that this guy had just recently pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage boy, that he had the guts to tell somebody he was 40 years younger than he really was, and then to follow through on the chat by actually showing up, i mean, it's stunning. what was your plan here today, robert? >> no plan. >> no plan at all? i've got the transcripts of your conversation here. >> i'm sorry? >> i've got the transcripts of your conversation here. you say to him, i'll be your girlfriend and you be my boyfriend, huh? he says are you a girl? you say, no, oh sometimes i wish i was. you say

measures or your renewable energy technologies which are quicker cheaper and more widely available robert if i go to you and we locked into the nuclear future we don't even have a choice right now do we. well. i agree more with bill i think that with benjamin the the fact is for the for the near term fukushima is going to hinder nuclear development globally but look at what's happening in china a country that is heavily reliant on coal for what about seventy seventy five percent of its electricity there are planning to build sixty new nuclear reactors over the next decade it's clear that in the near term this action at fukushima is going to drive the world more toward natural gas because that's the only other source that is scalable and as relatively low carbon but over the long term i think nuclear is going to have to be and will be part of the answer because the demand for electricity globally is so great well you know if i go back to new york william what about the cost of it i mean it when when i was preparing for this program it's such a politicized issue a come across articles and s

best example where you thought you were going to really go i could go ok go ahead and i'll go to robert going to chicago it's. just the newest reactor being bill right now which is a kind of generation three plus is the european pressurized reactor this one being built in finland and i believe one in sweden in this illustrates the complexity and the difficulty with doing the nuclear design both of these projects are four to five years behind schedule and i've seen cost overruns of two hundred to four hundred percent so this idea that we've already surpassed the learning curve and even slight modifications of reactor designs i think it's completely a false argument ok robert german go ahead. well i think this is peter this is clearly the issue is how is the nuclear industry industry going to address the cost issue going forward and this make no mistake this is the real problem that the industry faces the capital costs for these these plants is a minimum five thousand dollars per installed kilowatt and as benjamin pointed out can be much higher given cost inflation but the reality is we j

robert zimmerman, john avalon, and will cane. robert, you had the last word as we went into break.e just about to jump in, but will, i want to give you a second to come back first and then i'll let john weigh in. >> let me see if i can tie a ribbon around these two guys' disagreement. on one level, this is a victory for the center that understand you must raise the debt ceiling. that is nonnobodiable. but on the other level, it's a complete failure on substantive issues. this isn't a victory for the center because there's no real substantive move toward deficit reduction, no touch on entitlements. so that was a victory for poll tes politics in general. >> we had the poll numbers that came out in the past 45 minutes or an our saying that more than 70% of americans think our lay makers were acting like spoiled children versus responsible adults. >> and i agree with that. this was a totally dysfunctional process that was directly produced by the hyper party is an ship that the two parties have been playing with for a long time now. the fact that we avoid theis an ship that the two par

>> robert mueller started work september 4, 2001. he was actually sitting in, basically, his first briefing on al-qaeda and the threat of al-qaeda on the morning of 9/11 still getting up to speed on that. and he is now the longest-serving fbi director since j. edgar hoover himself and the last of the president's national security team still in his same job since 9/11. he's on his second president and is about to finish out his ten-year term this september, thept -- september 3, 2011. and what he has done is really remarkable. he's on the cover of "time" magazine this week which is one of the first times he's gotten any recognition for the work he's done sort of leading this evolution of the fbi towards an agency much more focused on counterterrorism and national security than a lot of the traditional crimes we still think of the fbi as being involved. in. >> this is what the book looks like, and this is a participatory interview. we'll put the phone numbers on the screen, and our twitter address is at booktv. so get involved with thi

curve with even slight modifications of reactor designs i think is completely a false argument ok robert jump in go ahead. well i think this is peter this is clearly the issue is how is the nuclear industry industry going to address the cost issue going forward and this make no mistake this is the real problem that the industry faces the capital costs for these plants is that at minimum five thousand dollars per installed kilowatt and as benjamin pointed out can be much higher given cost inflation but the reality is we just have to get good at nuclear right now i just looked up the numbers. the world's fleet of four hundred reactors or so is avoiding about two point five billion tons of c o two emissions per year that's nearly ten percent of global c o two emissions so if we're concerned about c o two we have to embrace nuclear i think that going forward we have a lot of options going to smaller what are called modular reactors possibly for fueling them with or to reduce proliferation risks that combination of technologies can help bring the price down you go to a manufacturing type of b

former white house press secretary pb now an adviser for the obama re-election campaign, robert gibbs. >>> plus -- >> i think the greatest threat to your country right now is this president who's trying to spin our way out of this disaster. >> why are so many republicans still searching? what's the gop plan for jobs? we'll talk to a man who considered getting into the race, indiana's governor and former budget director to president george w. bush, mitch daniels. >>> then, wall street's wild swings. the world economy once again on the brink. what's on the horizon? can the president win re-election in this economy? our roundtable weighs in. former democratic congressman from tennessee harold ford jr. columnist for the "wall street journal," peggy noon. e.j. dionne. and host of cnbc's "closing bell," maria bartiromo. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. the president is on day three of his ten-day vacation in martha's vineyard spending time with family and friends, hitting the links and doing some book shopping. aides say the president is being kept up to date

robert, welcome back to "meet the number i'm sure you're familiar with. the president's job approval rating on the economy. gallup has it as 26%. this is the lowest nmber of the president's entire term. my question to you is simple. how can he win re-election with a number like that? >> we've got to do a few things, savannah. first and foremost, the president's not worried about his job. he's worried about creating jobs for millions of americans who've been out of work for six months or two years or lonr. that's what his focus is. that's what it has been for each day of the last 2 1/2 years. and i think the president hopes that when congres gets back into town, that they'll act on some initiatives that we all know make sense and can pefully help businesses hire more people again. in terms of politics, look, i ink we're going to have a very robust campaign. and we're going to have a choice. and it's going to be based on some very simple values. the question is whether or not we're going to go back to wall street and big corpotions writing the rules or whet

please welcome robert k. wittman. [cheering and applause] hey mr. wittman, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> stephen: okay. you've got a fascinating job. you are a former senior investigator and founder of the f.b.i.'s arts crime team. during 20 years of your career there, you recovered more than 225 million dollars worth of stolen art and cultural property. now you've got your own firm, robert whitman incorporated, and your memoir is called "priceless." okay. how does one become an investigator in art crime? they say it takes a thief. are you a cat burglar turned good? >> new york i think what you have to do is you have to have a real deep understanding and love of art. i think that that helps. and then also you have to have an understanding of the art business. because, you know, when we talk about art and art history, you know, people know the stories of rembrandt, and they know the stories of renoir and monet and being blind and that type of thing, but that's not what we do when we talk about art crime. art crime is all about the

contesting the future of nuclear power a critical global assessment of atomic energy and in austin we have robert bryce he's a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and author of power hungry the mists of green energy and the real fuels of the future all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in since is the twenty fifth anniversary verse three of the tragedy of chernobyl let's take a look back. at the tell us unknowable and nothing ukraine is destined to stay abandoned it's high radiation levels and decaying infrastructure so the so in mind of the us nuclear plant disaster in human history since then nuclear technologies have been modernized significantly to survive the accident of the scale the industry was virtually forced to reinvent itself so grating and your safety culture nevertheless those cocos the use of nuclear energy well always play the trouble card because the damage caused is hard to forget. thirty one people were killed by the sheer noble accident in the first three months but many more days later it's a result of radiation related sickness the impact on pub

next to robert in marietta, georgia. robert's calling on the democrats' line. caller: yes. first time caller. it's really hard to get through. but nevertheless. i'm glad that they approved the debt ceiling agreement and it passed and has been signed. it's just very heartening to see what this president has to go through. there's never been a president, and i can go back -- i'm 69. i can go back and remember eisenhower. no president has been through what this man has been through. i think when you've been through seeing discrimination throughout this country, it's easy to spot. it's easy to spot. what this whole thing is about, it's about this man is a black president. >> we're going to stop you there. we thank you for your call. we're going live to the dierkson senate office building for nominees for ambassadors from turkey and the czech republic. >> all three nominees in the first panel and then we'll do questioning of mr. ford in the second panel. we're fortunate to have senator lugar here with us and we want to try and accommodate his schedule as well as senator lieberma

for instance, i'll interview thad roberts and later mr. gordon that was there. i know there was a conversation, i know what was said, i don't know the exact word. one journalist might say they talked about moon rocks. to me it's a boring way to describe it. i know what they did, i know how talked about it, so i describe what they did. there are some journalist who love it, some don't. it'll be a controversy, in terms of certain journalist will never like it. request at -- with "the social network" and "accidental billionaires "mark zuckerberg said it's not true. he never pointed out anything that wasn't true. he said it's not true. then he said he didn't read the book. i don't know where you go with that. i think the reality is it is a very true story. he laid the, you know, he meant to have sex on moon rocks because he wanted to be like having sex on the moon. he spread them on the bed and had sex on the moon. janet had a problem with the scene, saying he just put them under the matrices. -- mattress. that's not true. he did this on purpose. i use the facts but

then my guest is robert wittman, an art crime investigator. good, i want to take out a restraining order on the mona lisa. her eyes keep following me around the room. god said i shall have no gods before me, so don't spoil your appetite with vishnu poppers. this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheering and applause] >> stephen: thank you so much. welcome to "the report." good to have you with us. nation, please, we have to... [audience chanting "stephen"] thank you very much. very kind. and in return, let me say, dos vidana. nation, as everyone knows, i am the world's biggest fan of spider-man. what's that, nerds? you're a bigger fan than i am? really? well then here's a spidey trivia question. which issue had you on the cover? i am on amazing spider-man number 573 saving the webbed crusader. [cheering and applause] pretty cool. well, i'm afraid i cannot save him this time because of the latest issue of marvel comics ultimate fallout, peter parker is killed, presumably while appearing in sp

this week on wealthtrack financial leader robert shiller forecasts the tech and housing bubble as theracks the behavior of consumers and markets what does this visionary yale economist see i on consuel mack wealthtrack. [♪] >> the company you keep is also the company we keep. together we help provide a lifetime of guaranteed income and investment solutions. >> additional funding provided by: >> consuelo: hello and welcome to this edition of wealth track. i'm consuelo mack. remember the greenspan years of the 1990s and the wall street pundits and investors believed we tamed the boom and bust economic beast and were forever destined to live in a goldilocks economy of steady growth, low price and near full employment? did we ever really believe that? we sure did. this week's guest yale professor robert shiller wrote about it in a recent new york time column as quote, the origins of the current economic crisis. a particular kind of social epidemic and speculative bubble that generated pervasive optomism and complacency and he said markets are driven by stories and word of mouth contagion.