rosen, what about this clinton deal that was finance any. in the sensez-i that -- we are going to talk about later, i was at the white house christmas party. i didn't see you guys. i asked, they said no we didn't invite cameron and rosen, because we hate them. >> that's good if i could get that in writing from you. badge of honor baby! pill bill i said i think chin ton is still down there, this was 9 p.m., there was nobody there but he was still talking and everybody had left. it did make president obama look a little -- what is the word i'm looking for? >> perhaps less than fully in charge. the purpose of having bill clinton there was unclear to me. was he there to appeal to this liberal wing of the democratic party? >> bill: absolutely. >> or was he there to imbue mr. obama, i should say respectfully, with the aura of a try lay for, someone like clinton can reach out and cut dells with the opposing party? -- i'm not sure it did president obama any good. the most interesting aspect was how he told us that he is now out of politics. and he t

jeffrey rosen is legal affairs editor of the new republic. he is also professor of law at george washington university and a non-resident senior fellow of the brookings institution. he is the author of about six books. >> four, not six. >> four, two in the works. his essays and appeared in "the new york times -- have appeared in "the new york times" and other publications and he has been called the most widely read legal commentator. thank you for being here. >> thank you. i'm glad to be included in this stimulus -- stimulating conversation. i know you'll appreciate reading my colleagues provocative paper -- my colleague's provocative paper. there is much that i admire. i understand that he believes the supreme court has not had a history unconstitutional interpretation. i like that he realizes that is a good thing that mobilize americans are reading the constitution, marching on the mall, and making judgments about what it's words mean. i admire and agree with him that, throughout history, constitutional change has come from those mobilized

rosen and was determined to protect his status with the president telling him what believed he wanted to hear. this was relatively easy for frankfurter because in most cases this term to be with frankfurter believed anyhow. frankfurter belonged to one of the conservative groups of jewish political activism in the group called the american jewish committee as opposed to older more established which are more vigorous and active. his answer to the problem was through educational efforts to improve the public attitude in the long term and was tantamount to the booker t. washington approach to combating racial bigotry. he had an educational foundation, which showed -- aimed to show the issues the right way to prepare for the life and the christian community. so there was little room in brandeis's filibuster for kind of agitation that might upset that community. the rabbi stephen wise, the most common american jew outside the government circle at the time, wrote a friend i am sure that [inaudible] his influence, meaning rosenman is bad. he had reason to suspect that early in the spring of 3

professor jeffrey rosen is a legal affairs editor. he is also a professor of law at george washington university. he is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is the author of about six books. >> for, not 6. >> two in the works. his essays have appeared in the "new york times" and " ththe atlantic monthly." he is the most widely read legal commentator according to the "los angeles times." thank you for coming. >> thank you for including me in this stimulating conversation. thank you for prof. codevilla for having written this provocative paper. i know you have all enjoyed reading it. there is much in his paper that i very much admire. i'd like the fact that he understands that the supreme court throughout history has not had a monopoly on constitutional interpretation. i liked the fact that he realizes it is a good thing that globalized americans are reading the constitution, marching on the mall, and making their own judgments about what the words mean. in meyer him at agree with them that constitutional change

. >>> speaking of dunks, demar rosen threw down the best of the year. he exploded to the rim, but it wasn't enough. bobcats won it, 97-91. >>> funny moment in the rockets king game. would you like some popcorn? don't mind if i do. rockets won it, 118-105. college basketball after pushing michigan state, oakland beat unranked tennessee. oakland won it. two streets on the line in phillybut only one continues this morning. sydney crosby had two assists bringing his streak 19. the flyers snapped the penguins 12-game win streak. >>> an unfortunate moment in a high school game in florida. desoto high's player got into it with another player. collin responded after being ejected from the game by pushing the referee. before you knew it, he put him in a bear hug and threw him to the floor. collin was restrained and taken out of the building. he's been suspended & from the team and from school. >>> a married pair of hollywood heavyweights decide to go their separate ways. that's your early look at sports on "early today." your early morning entertainment headline

richard holbrooke was 69, shep. >> shepard: james rosen. thanks. to northwest florida where police say a man walked into a school board meeting today, opened fire, and then killed himself. happened in panama city before the panhandle east of pensacola, west of appalachia, florida. state records show that the gunman identified as clay duke once served four years in prison for stalking and other crimes. witnesses say the gunman walked rights up to the podium and spray painted in red a v with a circle around it on the wall and then pulled out a gun. today on "studio b" i talked to a school official who was at that meeting. >> i saw him sitting there and he had a can of spray paint in his hand. at some point during the meeting he walked up and said he had something to say. >> shepard: and what did he say? >> something about firing his wife. >> shepard: witnesses say he started shooting after a woman hit him with her purse, a school board member. a security guard had shot and killed the gunman. but now police in bay county and in panama city say after r

in a remark to samer rosen man he abided the best epigraphs of the residents choose.rosenman characters higley urged morgenthau not to take his case against the state department to roosevelt because word might leak to the press. morgenthau shrug off the advice. don't worry about the publicity he said. what i want his intelligence and courage. courage first in intelligence second. if more of his colleagues followed that, the history of the jews in the 20th century might not have been quite as tragic as it turned out to be. be. and away the attitude the presidents choose with the notable exception of morgenthau and that many american jewish lawyered -- leaders can be illustrated by a joke that made the rounds amongst those agitating for action on behalf of the jews trapped in hitler's europe. the story goes -- facing a nazi firing squad. the nazi surgeon comes forward to offer the victims cigarettes. they tear the blindfold off and spit in the nazi's face. please see big still make trouble. [laughter] in a larger sense this attitude simply represented the latest element

>> shepard: james rosen live on capitol hill. thank you. an american war hero, america's top military officer, the two in a battle over whether to let gays serve openly in the armed forces. >> we send these young people into combat. we think they're mature enough to fight and die. i think they're mature enough to make a judgment on who they want to serve or the impact on their battle effectiveness. >> you do not have to agree with me on this issue but don't think for one moment that i haven't carefully considered the impact of the advice i give on those who will have to live with the decisions that that advice informs. >> shepard: tonight, showdown over ending don't ask, don't tell. we're live at the pentagon. the founder of wikileaks is apparently a free man because of a paperwork problem and the suspected problem of his next leak is reportedly preparing for damage control. the red bank, it appeared, is lawyering up. across america and in 110 homes, 110 countries around the globe, better be more than 110 homes, here on the fox report. hi.

james rosen and what else is the the senate is trying to do this weekend.m angle live in washington. what's the senate working on now. >> they have two choices, shep. a short-term extension to keep the government going until next wednesday, avoiding a shutdown saturday at midnight. and a house leader says that extension will happen. >> the senate will take it and will bass it. senator mcconnell and senator reid have agreed that they will pass this. >> now, the senate is also working on a longer range extension until at least february so the new congress could make a fresh start on spending bills. either way, every one of both parties says a shutdown is off the table. >> no one should be worried about the lights going off. that will not happen. >> even if the senate passed a longer extension, shep, the house isn't back until next week to act on it shep? >> shepard: democrats pulled that huge trillion-dollar plus spending bill from the senate floor last night. what happened there? >> well, senator reid lost 9 republican votes. he thought he had. including som

professor jeffrey rosen is a legal affairs editor. he is also a professor of law at george washington university. hes a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is the author of about six books. >> for, not 6. >> two in the works. his essays have appeared in the "new york times" and " ththe atlantic monthly." he is the most widely read legal commentator according to the "los angeles times." ank you for coming. >> thank you for including me in this stimulating conversation. thank you for prof. codevilla for having written this provocative paper. i know you have all enjoyed reading it. there is much in his paper that i very much admire. i'd like the fact that he understas that thesupreme court throughout history has not had a monopoly on constitutional interpretation. i liked the fact that he realizes it is a good thing th globalized americans are reading the constitution, marching on the mall, and making their own judgments about what the words mean. in meyer him at agree with them that constitutional change --

. >> what does rosen do, rosa? >> no more retarded. >> you see him struggle.ittle things that no one could imagine. seeing her without that limitation, it's overwhelming. >> when the kids come up to me and hug me and say thank you. they don't have to say thank you. you can see it in their eyes. >> he got laidoff. been on the unemployment line. >> goodwill in the community. help people when they really need the help. it's worth doing. >> he said, mom, i'm going over there. i'm doing a job. i'm saving soldiers' lives so that these boys can come home to their moms. my son was brave enough to give his life for this country. >> he always said, every time is disarm one of these guys, i'm sending another guy home. >>

to happen is that living in the north of the region and who is still directly linked to serbia by rosen very much looks to belgrade will not vote in these elections but do you sabs living in the something place and the full cost of geographically from where they have a choice to engage in this electoral votes if they are to change their lives and that they will go to the polls today so integration remains a long way off the wall many albanians here are very optimistic about these elections billing them as historic in the start of a new unified era that sense of optimism is not shed among the serbian community there are several crucial problems that need to be addressed here and cost. of unemployment according to some estimates it runs as high as forty to fifty percent of the population the current unemployed and cost of zero has europe's youngest population the economy here is one of the weakest in europe and then there's crime and corruption food to be endemic at every level here in the in kosovo and then of course the candidate list itself. several candidates from across major parties

of texas and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rosen affect our difference of opinions on this program and i'd like my viewers to see them if i go to you alan first the allegations that came out of the council of europe are serious allegations against the leadership particular the prime minister of course of all over a week ago or so these are very serious allegations given your knowledge of the balkans how much are you surprised by this and do you think they're true and what about the timing of it all. well you know for folks who've been following this for a long time it's no surprise to have a report that says that there is an organized crime in cost of and then in fact the leadership in cost of all right now which are descendants of the rebel group the cost of the liberation army that they are connected to this organized crime we've known that all along from from the time the rebellion started in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the latest allegations about trafficking in human organs are not new but still not yet proved but even

i had a conversation with mall rosen again and i'm supposed t o -- paul rosen again an i'm supposed to speak with him a gain. >>> 7:06. as you saw behind kraig, a little foggy there. let's check in with sal. >> tori and dave, it does have an impact, the fog, but sometimes we have wider c ommutes. we could use it. highway 4, i think on tuesday, i got the most complaints about this highway tuesday, wednesday. it was also bad. but today is seems a little bit better. it's still slow in antioch. look at the westbound bay b ridge. there is a small accident near the toll plaza but it's lighter than usual and today we could surely use it. westbound traffic looks good. on the nimitz freeway, that traffic is moving well. the road sensors are picking up more traffic. westbound 580 is okay through livermore. let's go to steve. >>> before we get started here, had the pleasure of speaking to 7th graders at the palmer school in walnut creek. it was a lot of fun. i want to thank kelsey for setting it up. she watches. her dad knows my dad. >> but maddie was very tough on me. very tough questions. >>> f

james rosen has more live from washington. you don't see this often and you don't see it from someone who is the chairman of the weighs and means committee. >> reporter: the scheduled time for the vote keeps sleeping. we expect by nightfall tonight charlie rangel will have stood in the well of the house and listened in disgrace as speaker nancy pelosi reads the verdict. he was found guilty of eleven violations of house rules stemming from charges that he failed for 17 years to disclose income from avila he owned in the dominican republic, that he used official letterheads to solicit funds, that he used a rent-controlled apartment as his campaign and exhibited conduct unbecoming of the house. the chairman took no evident pleasure in so finding last month. >> i note that the code of government ethics states clearly that a public office is a public trust. it was our responsibility to determine whether representative rangel's conduct met that standard. >> reporter: the loan member of the ethics committee to say he found censure to

. >> james rosen, we expect to hear from rangel at some point in another statement, different than the one we saw on the house floor. james, your thoughts? >> well, a sad spectacle and a spectacular fall on the anals of american politics on what punishment should be given out. the chair, a democrat, reminded the lawmakers of all rangel was once the country's chief author of our tax laws. rangel apologized again for putting his colleagues in this, quote, awkward position and reminded them of his position in the korean war and pleaded with them to make thermos rate with his mistakes. >> evited the rules of this house and he violated the standards of conduct. censure is a serious sanction and one rarely imposed by the house. the decision to recommend that was not reached lightly. >> there should be sanctions, but if you are breaking new grounds, i ask for fairness. none of the presidents of the history of this great country has anyone ever suffered the humiliation of a censure when the record is abundantly clear and never challenged that in those two years of investigations which i called

jon: james rosen live for us in washington, thank you, james.he big healthcare ruling, the white house now saying it will appeal the decision in virginia. we'll take an in-depth look at why the virginia says is no significant and how it could have a big impact on the president's signature legislation. that healthcare ruling affecting every single american. we want to know what you think about it. you can weigh in by joining our live shat or e mailing us at foxnews.com/"happening now." we hope you're inside if you're in the northeast because that's what it looks like outside. it is locked in a deep freeze. how much longer will the cold last? live in the weather center in just a moment. medicare. it doesn't cover everything. and what it doesn't cover can cost you some money. that's why you should consider an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan... insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. all medicare supplement insurance plans can help pay... some of what medicare doesn't, so you could save... thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expe

james rosen is live in washington on that story. james?orter: jenna, it's not like some scene out of a nuclear war movie where the very second the button gets pressed, scenes of men hailing taxis and children playing with jacks, bulldozers are moving piles of dirt come to an abrupt halt in midair. early '96 was the longest in american history. what actually happened was an estimated 284,000 federal employees were placed on fur logue, and another 475,000 that were deemed essential, national security and what have you, worked on a nonpay status. close to 400 national park sites were closed, at the state department some applications for passports were set aside, veterans' services were sharply curtailed and the centers for disease control halted its monitoring of the spread of some diseases. politically, the man we were just seeing -- president clinton -- was most -- able to deflect most of the blame to house speaker newt gingrich. aside from the partisan disputes about spending was mr. clinton's seating of him, mr. gingrich, at the back of a

james rosen, correspondent, is standing by, been following the story all day. >> a verdict just rendered by the full house tonight, closes the chapter on a 2 1/2 year period of scandal and disgrace for a man who was once one of america's most powerful politicians, the former chairman of the house ways and means committee. and final obstacle to reaching this was removed when the house voted overwhelmingly, 267 to 145 with more than 100 democrats in agreement not to downgrade congressman rangel's punishment from censure to a mere reprimand. it's been two weeks since the law maker was found guilty by the house ethics committee. they include rangel's failure for 17 years to disclose income from a villa he owned in the dominican republic. his use of official letterhead to solicit funds for a center named in his honor, his use of a rent controlled apartment as a campaign office, and as a result of all that conduct, unbecoming of a member of theou

we might get to a break on monday and another chance rosen tuesday. time right now is 5 03. traffic with arafat.erica the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza very few cars on the road friday light traffic moving well. metering lights are still cycled off it will not run into any problems across the upper deck. sematech bridge same-store no problems to report just light conditions in both directions. we are seeing volume on the right- hand side of your screen that is the tail lights heading towards foster city. still no problems or incidents across the span. no problems getting to the bridge another direction everything is in the clear. south bay no hot spot jet traffic on the right-hand side of your screen those taillights headed northbound toward santa clara moving with no problems here. 87 interchange if you're headed of north to the see right chain requirements in a fact. interstate 80 in both directions also highway 50 will need chains or snow tires. >> 5:04 a.m. johannes messily the former are pleased officer since to two years in prison for fatally shooting oscar bra

joining us, democratic strategist, hillary rosen and john avlon.r publication, "time" magazine, he writes, is it hyper bol lick to say the democratic party is in the midst of a nervous breakdown? i have been covering national politics since 1988 and i don't remember a spacial quite like this. hi hillary, is there a nervous breakdown going on? >> i have no clue what he is talking about. democrats have been pretty clear for the last couple of months. coming up to the end of the year rg our priorities are extending the middle class tax cuts. if democrats are nervous, republicans in my view are manic. they can't decide what's more important, to prevent unemployed people from feeding their families or to give millionaires a tax break. it is just pathetic. >> you think the democrats are having a nervous breakdown, john. >> i think if hillary was doing the messaging, they might not be in a nervous breakdown situation. mark halperin mentioned 1988. there is a civil war within the democratic party just as there is with the democratic party, between the left

. >> michael rosen our executive producer and everybody who deals with us every week, such a joy.ing to be, as joyful and joyous during the week, as well. >> it will a lot of fun. >> every day now with them. >> every day. >> lonnie, luckily, you can give me tips on that. >> you know. >> because, for people who don't live in the new york area, lonnie, you and chris worked together every single night on cbs 2. >> as he makes that transition to monday through friday, you know what i will miss, the ties, it's true. >> i think he will still give you the hand-me-downs. >> for those who don't know this wraggs has great ties, wears them only five times and doesn't repeat them. >> transition to the next chapter here, the two of you and everything that will happen going forward. >> it's exciting. it will be busy but we'll still see a lot of you guys, too and the saturday people. i've been gone a little while, as we know buts it see so nice every saturday to turn on the tv and see you there. >> thank you. >> i think you such a warm, friendly face to be with in the morning we know saturday is

jeffrey rosen uses it to mean when judges strike down a law. the right libertarian's commitee part years -- libertarians, tea partiers, say it means when a dead substitutes his own opinion -- when a judge to substitute his own opinion of the law. cause he likes a law, he does not apply the constitution to strike it down. i guess what i am asking is, is there a sense in which either that difference of definition could be acknowledged to help the debate? is there a truce in which neither side uses that term a again? >> thank you. usinge tried to avoid that term. i know it is contested. i started [unintelligible] i couldn't help myself. i use it as a shorthand for striking down laws. it is a neual definition. it does not say whether it is good or bad. i think the constitution properly requires that. i think it is a neutral term. judges should not substitute their own opinions for those of the law. >> that has always been. >> that. it and helpful -- un ishelpful -- is unhelpful. it is in the e ye of the. holder -- it is in the eye of the holder. di

near rosen's aftermath, following the bloodshed of america's wars in the muslim world. and also, bloody cry: chase for jefferson davis and the death pageant for lincoln's corpse. this is james swanson's latest book on the civil war. and abraham lincoln was interviewed by edna medford cream of howard university for our "after words" program. don, humana, arizona. good evening. >> caller: my question is regarding the e-books. >> host: please go ahead, sir. >> caller: i have a nook and i was wondering if they ever thought about bundling -- if you bought the e-book, the electronic portion and if you could buy the whole book together as a bundle. >> host: all right, jenn risko, you kind of address that i'm a bit if you'd like to repeat it for him. >> guest: i totally agree with you. if you buy the book, it should be in both electronic and print format, that you should get a discount for buying, you know, a discount on one of them are both of them, for buying them collectively. as you mentioned before, it would be nice to read your book at home, your paper book at home. when

jeff rosen is in brooklyn with the latest on the cleanup. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: hi, lester. good morning to you. here we are, three days after the storm in the biggest city in the country. and it's really still a disaster area along many of the side streets. right now, i'm standing not in a park, not in a field somewhere, this is actually a residential area, a residential side street in the middle of brooklyn, new york. and when i say it's not been plowed, i mean it. i did not mean plows came through and snow just covered over, i'm saying a plow never came through, you can't get a car through here or an ambulance through here or a police car through here and that's causing many problems. and if you do, you couldn't get a tractor trailer through a snow bank that's five feet tall. if you think this is bad, the airports are just as bad or even worse, but there is some progress to report this morning. but there is progress to report this morning. morning.1 and away we finally go to -- the game went on tuesday night. the eagles and vik

near rosen's aftermath, following the bloodshed of america's wars in the muslim world. and also, bloody cry: chase for jefferson davis and the death pageant for lincoln's corpse. this is james swanson's latest book on the civil war. and abraham lincoln was interviewed by edna medford cream of howard university for our "after words" program. don, humana, arizona. good evening. >> caller: my question is regarding the e-books. >> host: please go ahead, sir. >> caller: i have a nook and i was wondering if they ever thought about bundling -- if you bought the e-book, the electronic portion and if you could buy the whole book together as a bundle. >> host: all right, jenn risko, you kind of address that i'm a bit if you'd like to repeat it for him. >> guest: i totally agree with you. if you buy the book, it should be in both electronic and print format, that you should get a discount for buying, you know, a discount on one of them are both of them, for buying them collectively. as you mentioned before, it would be nice to read your book at home, your paper book at home. when