professor rosen with and provide commentary and contextualization for the different document to be read professor roseman is in the jewish study program. his publications cover topics in german, jewish and other history. germany, holocaust survival in memory, not a policy and perpetrators, post-1945 german and european construction and jewish and other minorities. professor roza will be the invitational scholar of the center for the 2010, 2011 academic year. the doctor will close a program with a question and answer. and doctor wilson is an applied research called with the center. she received her phd from emory university in 2008 and is working on the fifth point of the series of jewish responses to persecution, which will cover the years 1944-1946. this claim was made possible by the generous support of the foundation and the foundation with additional support of the monroe foundation. were also thank the hell in a foundation to make this program possible. before and the podium to jurgen i want to ask everyone to join us again on the evening of mar march 18. finally i ask that you ple

>> chris: james rosen reporting from the white house. james, thanks. we'll knock down what is apparently another myth about global warming. and those seeking to make their political dreams a reality head to new orleans. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every business da bank of america lends nearly $3 billionollars to individuals, institutions, schools, organizations and businesses in every corner of the economy. america. ♪ growing stronger. every day. >> chris: in america's election headquarters, the grand old party comes to america's party headquarters. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in new orleans. the site of the southern republican leadership conference to tell us who the players are and what we can expect. good evening, carl. >> reporter: hi, chris. activists from 14 southern states have come here to get an early peek at the

correspondent james rosen looks at president obama's continuing troubles, finding someone to run the t.s.a. >> reporter: three months after the attempted bombing of a u.s. airliner on christmas day, the transportation security administration guardian of the u.s. aviation system remains leaderless. president obama first nominee for the top job, former f.b.i. agent su erroll southers will drew after admitting to use federal name check to check out his wife's new boyfriend. the second nominee, robert harding withdrew after questions about his lucrative work as defense contractor. >> the longer it takes to get a permanent t.s.a. head, the longer it takes to make the needed reforms. we need somebody to come in with a fresh new strategy, that can improve security, that can tackle some of the new and emerging threats and can manage the thousands of screeners, the large workforce out there. >> the morale of the nation's 40,000 airport screeners is considered critical to the success of the agency's counterterrorism mission. the spokesman for homeland security secretary janet napolitano to who

james rosen is live in little rock, arkansas, where the candidates debated last night. hello, james. >> reporter: good afternoon. it wasn't lincoln-douglas, but the lincoln-halter debate proved more civil and substantive affair than the race, itself, has been to date with the negative attack ads on tv and spending by the outside groups. still, senator lincoln main challenger, bill halter, albeit in a polite way went on the attack against lincoln early and often last night, portraying the two-term senator as flip-flopper on the so-called public option in heal healthcare reform and unprincipled for her receipt of campaign contribution from goldman sachs. for her part, lincoln kept her focus on the audience, touting the accomplishment on the agriculture committee but pausing once to cap halter as a flip-flopper on the security chief. >> i asked senator lincoln to give back the contribution that goldman sachs made to her campaign. because they are currently under s.e.c. investigation for fraud. i just think it's unseemly to be simultaneously raising money from the folks tha

. >> fox's james rosen has more on that and the other big issues that lie ahead. >> obviously at theinning of a longe work period. >> reporter: confirmation of president obama's next scream court nominee, an overhaul of the financial regulatory system, immigration reform, climate change legislation and not to mention the creation of new jobs as the economy limps along the road to recovery. ate jam-packed agenda for congress to try to wrap up before this session wraps up in early october and lawmakers return home to focus full-time on the mid-term elections. >> they are going to lose seats. it is just a matter of how many. whatever they can do to stop the bleeding, they will do it. >> one rent analysts expect issues to be addressed before october. >> i don't think we'll see a ton of controversial measures moving through the house and senate. there is talk about immigration reform, talk about another run at climate change. >> reporter: financial reg reform is also expected to be dealt with. this kind of strategizing says one gop veteran of the the house leadership is how both parties r

james rosen live in washington. james, they want, the obama administration and the country wants these numbers to be going into the other direction. any word from the administration why they see this surge in the new claims in the past couple weeks? >> reporter: the labor department, megyn, which puts out these numbers claims the spike owes its part to seasonal adjustments based on easter and cesar chavez day only formally observed in california. bottom line the american job market remains very tough. let's break the numbers down for you. last week we saw 484,000 americans file for unemployment benefits for first time. up 24,000 from the week before. week before that which ended march 27th saw 442,000 such claims. that had been a drop of 3,000. contrast all of this with one year ago at this time, these claims exceeded 600,000 at that time. the peak, which came in march of '09, had been over 650,000. so much for first-time claims. now look at something called continuing claims. these are more than 4.5 million people

justice john paul stevens announces his retirement, and that is the story with which we begin and james rosen is on it live for us from washington. james, justice steve sense leaving, who might be arriving? >> reporter: we don't expect the president to tell thaws today, he'll just make remarks on what john paul stevens has meant to the nation's highest court, however, aides have made clear in recent days as the prospect of a stevens retirement has been in the air that we can expect to see on the president's short list essentially the same names and face as appeared the last time around, with the departure of justice stevens, we are losing a somewhat annon lous figure on the nation's high court, a jurist nominated by a republican who continued always to think of himself as a instruction construction -- strict constructionist but who found himself increasingly aligned in cases and rulings with the court's liberal block. asked about this stevens said i didn't move, the court moved around me. to succeed, they will likely give consideration to a number of individuals. let's look at four of them, e

like all of a sudden somebody will have an allison rosen press conference. >> i think it is a good gamut. they should learn from them. i think, yeah, what a waste of money. >> here is something interesting, professor, people are blaming charles barkley and michael jordan. >> blame the 200% black guys, right? >> but they say it is bad influences. >> do you think charles barkley and michael jordan are responsible? >> i am saying some people said that, not me. i read it in the paper. >> the guy was a home schooled kid with a billion dollars. you go to sleep with everything moving. >> he was offering 10 million when you think about it. >> the lesson here if you are going to cheat with somebody, cheat with somebody equally as rich and famous. >> there is no one. >> yeah, but it is oprah. am i the only one who wouldn't sleep with oprah? okay, maybe i am. that's not the point. you don't need a billion, even 100 million or 50 million. >> i tell you what will happen. since jesse james has been following the tiger playbook already to a t. tiger goes to sex rehab and now jesse. after "bombshell mcg

our own james rosen has the story from little rock. hey, james! >> reporter: no knock-out punches scored or even attempted between n the debate. they kept the discourse civil and substantive. halter said it was unseemly for blanche lincoln to accept campaign contribution from goldman sachs while serving as oversight role of derivative industry. and lincoln suggested that halter former security chief under president clinton might seek to privatize social security. at the end of the debate, the candidates spoke with the greatest emotion about the harsh tone of the campaign thus far and many negative tv ads they runned and something they both say they lamented. >> put a craft line at the bottom that is a crafty name they made up by they won't tell you who they are in terms of trying to tell you who we should be in arkansas and what you should think about me. >> i've taken down a website that is called "bail-out blanche." and senator, i would ask can you as we go forward if you would stop referring to me as "dollar bill." [ laughter ] if you would cea

. >> i have to say i didn't know that until rosen pointed it out. 1975, two years after roe vs. wade. it didn't even come up and i was confirmed 98-0. that changed in 1986 with the confirmation over robert bjork, the reagan appointee, the democrats vilified him and said if he's confirmed, it would bring back-to-back -- bring back back alley abortions. >> who knew this -- you knew president ford didn't want a liberal, not the leader of the liberals. that's not how he started out. the thinking was he would be leaning one way the other, it would be to the right. >> there have been surprises. with ford and justice stevens, earl warren in the 1950s who became chief justice of the most liberal court, the warren court and eisenhower said it was the biggest mistake he made and george h.w. bush with david souder. it's a lifetime appointment so if you make a mistake, it's a big mistake that lasts long after you're out of the white house. >> shepard: president ford says his legacy can stand on this one appointment. he was proud when he gave an interview in 2005. >> that's through, jerry fo

james rosen is following this story as well as disappointing jobs numbers and joins me live. >> goodning. the number of americans filing their first claims for jobless benefits grew by 24,000 last week. to 484,000. this is as the senate voted minutes ago to approve an emergency extension of those benefits. >> already this month, over 200,000 americans have lost their benefits. another 30,000 lose it every day until we pass extension. >> reporter: the republicans warned against saddling future generations with mounting debt. >> in my lifetime, we're not going to pay back this month. >> as drafted, measurable extension through early june and will restore payments to those whose benefits expired on april 5. but the majority brushed aside the g.o.p. amendments to offset the $18 billion measure with spending cuts elsewhere. >> this is the worst recession since the great depression and doing that would put more people out of work. >> reporter: claiclaims for unemployment rose with claims that they are finding it hard to cope. >> i understand coming with a major extension on all the account

jane: james rosen in d.c. for us, thanks. >> reporter: thank you. jon: are you ready for a little bit of good news for once? there is some to tell you about today, and it revolves around consumer spending. fox business network's jerry willis is here with that. what's going on? >> reporter: chain store sales up 9%, the best performance since march of 1999. consumers back in the stores. wall street analysts were shocked by this, they didn't expect it. bj's up 10%, costco up 10%, i'm sure you know target up 10%, so good news there. jon: i guess i was under the impression that a lot of consumers scaled back, they had really changed their household budgets altogether. is this sort of a boost for the overall economy? >> reporter: well, we're going to be trying to decide whether it's a blip or not. easter came later than usual, it could be a blip. here's what one analyst told us. >> stronger numbers coming out of march will be very welcomed by investors and consumers alike because it will show that people are feeling better about the economy, it will mean

correspondent james rosen tells us what they are. >> we are obviously at the beginning of a lengthy work period. >> reporter: confirmation of president obama's next supreme court nominee. ratification of nuclear treaty with the russians and overhaul of regulatory system, immigration reform, climate change legislation and not to mention creation of new jobs as the economy limps along the road to recovery. a jam-packed agenda for congress to try to wrap up before the session wraps up in early october and lawmakers return home to focus full-time on mid-term elections. while dates have been known to slide on capitol hill, this time the analysts say the democrats who run congress have good reason to get out of town sooner rather than later. >> they will lose seats. it's just a matter of how many. whatever they can do to stop the bleeding or at least triage -- [ no audio ] >> well, all right, we have experienced some technical difficulty. we were in the middle of hearing erin billings, deputy editor of roll call suggesting it's just how many seats they will lose to make sure now that the they

. >> steve rosen. >> my question is to jeff feltman about the palestinian negotiations. the administration has been widely criticized for overreaching when it demanded a complete settlement freeze in israel and then appeared to back down to a degree and it has been said that it put out all lamb etc. last week secretary mitchell made another long reach when he seemed to promise a comprehensive peace agreement between israelis and palestinians in 24 months. something that i think is widely questioned whether it is an attainable goal. are we creating another limb that we and the palestinians will climb altogether and not be able to deliver and then have a problem of creation? >> let me make a comment on this issue first because the united states policy is long standing and predates this administration and the george w. bush administration and the government has had the same policy on settlements for a very long time. the call for the settlement freeze was consistent with the road map that was presented to the palestinians and the israelis under the last administration and w

. >> he said in 2007 for the piece rosen wrote, he said, including myself, every judge who's been appointede court since louis powell in 1971 has been more conservative than his or her predecessor, except maybe justice ginsburg. has it been a steady march on the court? >> i think it's indisputably true. he's citing data that is i think unequivocal, that everyone is succeeded by someone slightly to their right. and we certainly see that, i think, with david souter, who is succeeded by sonia sotomayor who is a more proprosecutor bench, we saw it with then-chief justice renquist being succeeded by justice roberts. and the moderate sandra day o'connor being succeeded by samp alito. the court pivoted around stevens, and what was a far right liberal disappears, the moderates become the wing nuts and the right is never cob te contemplated on the court. >> we could do this all night, but who do you think he's going to nominate? who should be considered on the short list? >> you know, it's whether or not obama has a stomach for a big fight or little fight, and i don't know the contents of obama's st

latest one or, for that matter, the one that created this corner of florida in the late '50s, when the rosen brothers, a couple of salesmen from baltimore, thought to develop cape coral. historian gary mormino. >> they bulldozed everything over, they brought in an aggressive commissioned sales force, they brought tourists to cape coral by airplane. if you forgot your checkbook to make your down payment, they had blank checks from every bank in america. and cape coral was one of the great success stories. >> cape coral, with more miles of waterways than venice, italy, has become a legendary way of life on florida's gulf coast. >> i took one look and said, "that's it." >> reporter: half a century later, local realtor kevin jarrett said pretty much the same thing. >> stood right here, put my hands on the counter, looked out onto the water said," this is it, this is where i want to be. this is the dream." >> reporter: in 2006, jarrett bought this home for nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. but his dream of living on the water soon had him drowning in a nightmarish sea of debt. >> soon a

james rosen is on the ground for us there. james? >> reporter: well, good afternoon to you, jane.st hours from this televised debate. polls show senator lincoln maintaining a fairly solid lead over her most serious democratic primary challenger, but this debate is crucial to both camps. the youngest woman ever elected to the u.s. senate, lincoln hopes to secure a third term by playing up her chairmanship of the senate agriculture committee and push for tighter regulation of the derivatives industry. her opponent has criticized her from taking money from goldman sachs. lincoln capped herself as a kind of maverick, someone who answers to her state, not to wall street or to the democratic party. >> if you look at the amount of money that outside interest groups are spending coming into the state of arkansas and spending against me from the left and from the right, trying to tell them, the people of arkansas, what they should think and, you know, who should represent them. that's not, that's not coming from, you know, the source of what my record is and what has this meant to arkansas

ment three squared off in a debate in little block and this is where our good friend james rosen in.is good to have you in here bright and early. >> don't give me that, you know where to me if you want me. >> we couldn't find me. >> what is going on down there? >> it is all forgiven and forgotten and greetings from little rock, arkansas. it was not exactly lincoln douglas, but the debate proved far more civil than the race to date has been with the attack ads on tv and huge spending by outside groups. but senator lincoln's primary challenger went on the attack portraying the senator as a flip flopper and unprisled for the recent of compain from goldman sachs. for her part lincoln kept her focus on the audience and pausing once to happen capper as a flip flopper on the security issue. >> i asked senator lincoln to give back the contribution goldman sachs made to their campaign because they are under investigation for fraud. i think it is unseem low to be simultanously raising money from the folks you are regulatings particularly when they wrecked our economy . >> i know i have consist

journalist jeffrey rosen has described you as the first telecommuting justice, first with fedex and withof course. i was hoping you could tell us this morning about how you do the work of the court from our state. >> i do it pretty much the way i do it at home, to tell you the truth. i work on opinions that home and i do the brief readings at home often. i communicate by way of the e- mail and so forth at the office. of course, federal express plays a role in getting messages back and forth. but the work down here is not really all that different from working in my office. >> thank you. >> justice stevens, a judge gonzalez, i am delighted to have this opportunity to have this conversation with you. i am thankful that you are both here. i was wondering how you got to be such good friends. it is so inspiring to see a friendship between two federal judges. i am wondering if that helps to reform your friendship and other interest you might have. >> let me tell you about justice stevens here. [laughter] my wife and i and justice stevens said his wife had dinner sometime ago and he said to me,