ruth later ginsberg is fielding a question -- ruth ginsberg is feeling the question -- fielding the question. good morning. should this deal be block? caller: good morning. this deal, in my opinion, is a non issue. we have overlooked the source of the problem. trying to treat the symptoms. our main problem is that we have concentrated the source of this nation's power in the people who are supposed to be our employees. they are now dictating to employers will we are going to do. we have done that, in my opinion, by ignoring the constitution. host: this morning in "the weekly standard" there is an article, "the bailout state." "sometimes the company already had ties to the government, like frenier -- fannie mae and freddie mac. sometimes the bailout state's beneficiaries are businesses, like aig, citigroup, and bank of america. the wards of the bailout state have more in common in government support." indiana, good morning. caller: is an amazing thing the power that the obama administration is amassing. they have taken over the car companies. taken over the banking industry. it is to the poin

justice ruth bader ginsburg said that she would support television and the cameras as long as it was tbafl to gavel, justice alito noted that when he was on the third circuit, he voted in favor of televising the proceedings, but had a reservation saying that if confirmed, he would would want to consult with his -- with his colleagues about it justice kennedy has said that he thinks televising the court is inevitable. justice -- chief justice roberts left the question open. there is obvious sensitivity in the court if a colleague strenuously objects and such an objection has been launched by justice souter. can i tell you the day that you see a camera come into our courtroom, it is going to -- it is going to roll over my dead body. close quote. quite a dramatic statement. well, justice souter has announced his retirement. and perhaps in the absence of that kind of strenuous objection, it would be a good time for the court to reconsider the issue. i intend to ask judge sotomayor in her confirmation hearing whether she agrees with justice souter, justice stevens in televise -- that tele

[applause] >> about six or seven years ago, ruth ginsberg was a lecturer and she spoke about how lonely that it was to be the only woman on the supreme court bench, so i know that you will do the right thing. and the students provided 85,000 hours, of legal services to the most vulnerable residents of washington, you are talking to the right group. they are here to make a change. thank you so much. you are wonderful. >> for more information on a judge sonia sotomayor, go to the web site to see video of all, announcing her nomination, and statements from the 1998 board of appeals nomination. >> there is still time to get your

. >> now, ruth better ginsburg spoke at the second circuit judicial conference earlier this month of talk about the supreme court nominee. this event is about 30 minutes. [applause] >> i am very glad to be with you and wish that i could stay longer, but monday is the day, the day that all dissenting opinions must be in circulation sadly, i will leave this afternoon and go right back to my worktable. the first was that in january, the country welcomed the new president and vice president and just days before the inauguration, president obama and vice president biden revive a tradition i had not experienced in my 15 years. they visited the court for a lively conversation that all present enjoyed appreciated. on may 1, justice souter formally advised the president that he would leave the court when we adjourned for the summer. each of us released a statement that day expressing our admiration and affection for a colleague with treasure. mine redad, justice david souter is the very best. he works so hard and getting it right. he is a genuinely caring man and a model of stability. never h

after that, we will hear from justice ruth pater ginsburg. . . >> sena public funding thing. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. a private business initiatives. no government mandate. no government money. >> the u.s. supreme court in a 5-4 ruling monday morning overturned a lower court decision in rericci v. destefano. the case has been watched closely because sonia sotomayor was [unintelligible] before we get into the details of the supreme court ruling, can you step back for a moment and outline what this case was about? >> what it is about is the city of new haven had a test --for promotion. it turned out no blacks qualified for more than one dozen promotions. the city decided what we would do is cancelled the test and cancel the promotion and when it did so, a group of mostly white, including one hispanic firefighter sued. >> at what level was the sioux rivers? >> the appeals court said they could not sue. that the city acted in good faith that it would be concerned that it would be settled -- sued by black firefighte

coming up talk with ruth bader ginsburg.ou can get more thoughts on america and the courts starting at 7:00 tonight. host: north miami beach, florida on the republican line. go ahead. caller: the last caller, he was right. i'm glad that the people here in america are listening to the calls. i've been listening to you guys for a very long time. thank you for c-span. it is not about oil. it is not about any of those things. it is about freedom. i believe the iranian people have the same rights as all of us. the instanity that goes on not only there but here. when you start labeling -- it just saddens me going forward again, thank you, again. i'm not well. i just need to say thank you. host: leave it there. missouri on the democrat line. caller: good morning. i wanted to express that even though it may not have been maybe the choice that we would have liked to have seen as a nation but they ran an election. if there is any propriety as far as some fault in the election, they can always call in, i believe, the u.n., and jimmy ca

next, remarks from supreme court justice john roberts followed by a speech by justice ruth bader ginsburg. later, the former bush administration justice department official talks about judge sonia sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court. >> tomorrow, we will talk to john nagl about the withdrawal of troops from iraq. then the president of the center for international policy talks about the situation in honduras and colombian president uribe's visit to the u.s.. later, dalia lithwick. each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern with the day's news. a look at iran's presidential election and what is ahead in tehran. >> next, a conversation with u.s. supreme court justice john roberts on some of the court's decisions. he is joined by judge harvey wilkinson. serving on the fourth circuit court of appeals. it is over 30 minutes. >> could we have you take your seats, please? >> good morning. we have a very extra special program this morning. and it will focus entirely on the supreme court. chief justice marshall worried that the supreme court's role in the tripartite government would not be fulfilled

that is one of the things that justice ruth spader against rick -- bader ginsburg was upset about. host: let me read to you a part of what "the washington post" said this morning. host:

friday, justice ruth bader ginsburg reviewed supreme court cases from this term at the second circuit judicial conference in bolton landing, new york. the second circuit court is the one that supreme court nominee judge sonia sotomayor currently serves on. [applause] >> i'm very glad to be with you, and wish i could stay longer. but monday is d. day at the court, the day that all dissenting opinions must be in circulation. so sadly i will leave this afternoon and go right back to my work table. i wanted to start by mentioning that beyond our business as usual, there were at least three extraordinary events at the court this term. can you hear me in the back? ok. the first was that in january the country welcomed a new president and vice-president. and just days before the inauguration president obama and vice-president biden revived a tradition i had not experienced in my then over 15 years as an associate justice. they visited the court for a lively conversation that all present enjoyed and appreciated. second, on may 1st, justice sutor formally advised the president that he would le

. >> rob: six straight years, he will be ahead of babe ruth all time in that department. >> bob: and he's going to strike out 170 to 190 times. >> rob: oh, yeah. >> bob: you just live with that. >> bob: what are you going to do, turn adam dunn into a singles hitter? >> rob: pretty big singles guy that adam dunn. and he barely gets them out of the infield. no, i want this guy swinging and trying to hit it as far as he can. >> bob: and he is smart enough to get a base hit when he needs to like he did in the 1st inning because the count was 0- 2. you can't be in homerun mode all the time. only jim thome walks more often than adam dunn. >> rob: he has 550-plus homeruns. he has own onbase percentage over .400. two of the best power guys in the game, great batter's eyes. maybe jim thome is picky, too. >> bob: you put adam dunn in the american league like thome was all those years, the way pitchers nibble, he would have even more walks. there is another one. he is on for the third time tonight. and that's walk number 3. celebrate father's day at the ballpark with us a week from sunday, nats

ruth on the republican line, which you make of the president's approach? caller: this last ellis of the same thing i wanted to sue. obama should just back off of iran and let them be. just let them do their own thing. the same thing in afghanistan and in the other countries. he wants to send money to build the mill. the money he wants to send over there we need over here. -- to bail them out. he always wants to give people money, give people money, but he doesn't for over here. our health program, they have synergy, and a first person who signs up on that there's a $6 charge. if they go up to $10 apiece if they add more people into the family they pay for all the medical. the prescriptions are all paid for and you do not have to worry if you have somebody who has cancer right now. anything now there will be covered under that insurance. there will not be charged any more for it. there is nowhere as you can buy insurance that will be that cheap. it is synergy with the company and the phone number on their. the put commercials on the tv, but they always do w

don will be up for the fourth time tonight, he flew out to babe ruth's in right in the fourth inning.driven in. arthur rhodes delivers and it's low for a ball.   0-9 is dungeons roads. >> rob: ouch. ho ho. well time to either get a hit or a homer. ffer  . >> johnny: the outfield straight away for dunn.  zimmerman off second. dunn pounds it at the plate and the count 1-1. 3-2 cincinnati, bottom of the eighth, that's a 92 miles per hour fastball from arthur rhodes. boy, when he came up with the orioles he could bring it with the best of 'em. now, coming out of that cincinnati bullpen, has had tremendous success. here is the 1-1. for  that's low for ball t   the run from -- tsh the h run by guzman, the first run allowed, in this, his ninth appearance out of the bullpen. >> rob: well i think with a base open and you've already given up a home run which is unexpected, i'm sure, from arthur

after that, we will hear from justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> the supreme court also made several other announcements today. victims of the september 11 attacks may not sue saudi arabia or saudi princess over alleged funding of terrorism. it upheld a lower court's decision that they are protected by sovereign immunity. foreign governments cannot be sued in u.s. courts. they delayed their decision in a case whether a documentary critical of hillary clinton should be considered subject to the same restrictions as campaign advertisements. new arguments will be heard in september. the court rejected the movie and television industry's bid to block a new and digital video recorder system that could make it easier for viewers to record programs and skip commercials. they claim that it violates copyright law. >> this weekend on "book tv" discover and unfamiliar side of the nation's first president as we are live from the mount vernon estate on the ascent of george washington. joint are three-hour conversation on sunday. it is part of our three-day holiday weekend starting on friday morning on

that is one of the things that justice ruth spader against rick -- bader ginsburg was upset about. host: let me read to you a part of what "the washington post" said this morning. host: w so? guest: there's a feeling that the white firefighters and the one latino who brought the title 7. did not have the ability to make a claim that they had been harmed. they need to be a will to say that because you threw out the test results, we did not get something. what they did not get was the possibility of maybe being promoted. it was not as if it was a foregone conclusion. they suffered no real harm. one of the things that some of the papers are arguing is that something bad knees to happen before you get relief from the court. here, they just were not at the point where something had harmed them so they could go into a courtroom and seek relief. there was a sense that if the litigation had been allowed to proceed, had they acted in some way, this would have been a much better stage of the litigation for the court to step in. host: whether it is this decision, the retirement of david soute

fiat says it will not walk away from its deal to buy chrysler despite a supreme court justice ruth painter ginsburg putting the deal on hold while she reveals a challenge. a federal bankruptcy judge in new york years arguments from chrysler dealers who do not want to lose franchise agreements. more from "the wall street journal" -- mitch mcconnell says republicans are not satisfied with the administration's nominee to run the u.s. census. president obama's pick to lead the bureau was approved by the senate homeland security committee in may, but republicans blocked a confirmation vote last week. the justice department says the first guantanamo bay detainee has been brought to the united states for trial. he of arrived in new york earlier this morning trade he is alleged to the been involved in the al-qaeda up bombings of the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. finally, in illinois, the newspaper says that the son of dennis l. hester will seek his congressional seat. he's as people are ready for the next generation of leadership. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. ed

saying i, but keep in mind it is a novel, not a memoir, but at any rate this guy would smuggle baby ruth candy bars into practices and he would go and hide behind a block of demi's -- a demi's and he gets caught and the coach with him up and had bought him. and makes him run laps and it turns out the poor kid ran laps with a broken femur and i am telling you too much. i have an outcast, letter p, the protagonist had some kind of psychological problem has everybody finished breakfast? he pissed, he broke into houses, it is little hard to explain, at any rate. [laughter] he would actually break into houses to pass in people's shoes. [laughter] he got or he would only do black shoes but then he starts putting them in the refrigerator and the newspaper gets a hold of this. and calls him the visitor. the visitor had all of the houses in vincent tights and georgia locking their doors. he cannot read. he is only nine it is his first brush with a celebrity. and he really likes it. so even though his poor stepdad try to have a man-to-man talk with him about this he goes along with that there is t

justice ruth vader ginsberg appeared with mike wallace and was televised. justice scalia and justice breyer appeared in an interview on the web. there is no doubt that there is enormous public interest in what the supreme court does when the case -- in the case deciding the supreme court -- the box around the supreme court was loaded with trucks. although the cameras could not get inside, there was a tremendous public concern. and the decisions of the court on all of the cutting edge issues of the day. the court decides executive power, congressional power, defendants' rights, habeas corpus, guantanamo, civil- rights, voting rights, affirmative action, abortion, and the list could go on and on. in both the 109th and 110th congress, i have introduced legislation calling for the court to be televised. twice it was reported favorably out of committee, but neither time reached the floor of the united states senate. united states senate. xu1Ñno carrierringno carrierrin0 whether she agrees with justice souter, justice stevens. whether she agrees with justice brey

paraphrasing supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, who pioneered this concept, she made those statements. and judge ginsburg's citation of it in cases and her defense of it in speeches is really -- has really led to this controversy which scalia and thomas have responded. so on the contrary, reliance on foreign law create creates conf. consider sotomayor's opinion in c.e.o. v. c.e.o. in the interpretation of a treaty. one of the few instances in which reliance on foreign law may be perfectly permissible. judge sotomayor repeatedly criticized the majority judges on the panel as parochial for consulting american dictionaries to understand the meaning of the -- of "custody" as determined by the hague convention on international child abduction and then she relies on foreign interpretations of those words instead. yet the majority rightly rebuked judge sotomayor for relying on the scattered and divergent foreign legal cases on this subject. the majority even cites the supreme court precedent that warns against relying on foreign law, creates a state of confusion. third, the reliance on forei

now, sandra day o'connor and justice ruth bader ginsburg weren't being prejudiced or biased or discriminatory. of course not. and i hope that all americans are encouraged by the nomination of judge sotomayor, hope they join together and celebrate what it says about america being a land of opportunity for all. she is the first nominee to the supreme court in 100 years to have been nominated to three federal judicial positions by three different presidents. it was president george h.w. bush as a republican who nominated her to be a federal district court judge. president bill clinton then nominated and the senate confirmed her to be on the second circuit court of appeals, the circuit that covers my own state of vermont. she actually, mr. president, you may be interested in knowing this, she has the most federal court experience of any supreme court nominee during the past 100 years. this is a remarkable person. she's the first nominee in more than 50 years to serve as a federal trial judge and then as a federal appellate judge at the time of her nomination to the supreme court. in fact, with ju

so, he has five straight seasons with 40 or more homeruns and he is tied with only babe ruth for theecutive years. if he gets 40 this year he is all by himself. >> johnny: and he draws a lot of walks and he has one there. >> rob: lifetime on base percentage this year of .381 which is very impressive. >> johnny: last year he walked over a hundred times, splitting his team between cincinnati and arizona. so, the nats have got two on. down at 1st base dunn -- dunn at 1st base, gonzalez at 2nd base. elijah dukes steps in. his average at .262. 1st base umpire rings up dukes with a called strike. >> rob: took a lot of heat last night for getting picked off 2nd base. but as he said he was trying to get a secondary lead. he does have 59 steals in his career. dunn has some wheels. not just a big, slow player. he can run a little bit. >> johnny: owings delivers. the flip to second to brand don phillips and the inning is over. we will talk more and debbi is going to have more on adam dunn. we go to the top of the second scoreless in washington. úúpp÷÷ >> we are bac

that average is the biggest average ever, ever, more than babe ruth. 2-2 delivery, and the questionecome the first player in 125 years of keeping the records to have something less than 20 home runs lead the league in average, go among the top ten in strikeouts, have -- swung on and missed. he's adding the strikeouts. he has two in this game. >> jim: how do you upper cut? you drop your back side, and e bath of the -- the path of the bat loops. that's what's going on here. it's a nice pitch. again, what jason berken coach is he, he always had good movement, great arm. just over -- now gary sheffield. i'm a line drive hitter. but i've never seem him with n upper cut like that. 1-0 delivery. sheffield will take it for a strike. >> jim: just flying open with that front shoulder, thats irrelevant baits. why do you do that? you feel like you have to open up -- that exacerbates it. why do you do that? you file leak you have to open up -- you feel like you have to open up. >> gary: sheffield really is helping this ball club. part it the long ball,

. >> [applause] >> this week, on america and the courts, justice ruth bader ginsberg. american and the courts, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> there is still time to get your copy of the 2009 congressional directories with information on house and senate members, the supreme court justices and the nation's governors. it is $16.95 on line. or you can call 1-877-on-c span. >> we will hear from several of dealers about the restructuring plans that include thousands of dealers closing. this is a little over four hours. >> as you can see, there is a lot of interest in this hearing today and i expect that members that are not on the hearing -- on the committee will be coming in and out. we will try to hold a tight rein on time and statements and questions. as i said, there is a lot of interest in this oversight hearing. this hearing is entitled "gm chrysler and dealership closures." other members of the subcommittee will be recognized with 3 minute statements. i will begin. through their vehicle manufacturing and cat us suppliers and a vast dealer network, the au

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. >> host: this is spencer will indiana, ruth on the republican line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. yes, i wanted to touch more on this idea that the neoconservatives influence and other objects talking about democracy and making democracy around the world, and i find that to be an absolute fallacy because that wasn't what they wanted. that was for public consumption in this country. it sounds good because we have a so-called democracy. we think the would be wonderful for everyone but if you use their history and who their mentors really were it has nothing to do with democracy. it has to do with power and in higher around the world and to say that was where they disagreed with rumsfeld i find that to be absolutely untrue. >> guest: will there is no question there was a line of argument within the administration about to use that promotion of democracy notion as a justification for the invasion of iraq. there was a strong push in that direction and rumsfeld did resist and he had long discussions with doug feith, the chief on this about exactly

[applause] >> about six or seven years ago ruth later ginsburg was a lecturer, and she talked about how lonely it was to be a woman on the supreme court bench, so i know you're going to do the right thing. i also have to tell you are students provided 85,000 hours of legal services to the most vulnerable d.c. residents to our clinical program, which is the most extensive in the country, so you're talking to the right people. thank you common senator leahy. you rock. [applause] >> for more information on judge sonia sotomayer, visit our web site where you'll find video of president obama announcing, the reaction, and then in the day from a 1998 appeals court nomination. but as all online act c- span.org. coming up tonight on c-span, the state department releases its annual human trafficking report. and a senate confirmation hearing on nominees to the federal communications commission. later, a house committee hears from people who have their health coverage canceled by their insurance company. >> right now online, look for our redesigned booktv web site, and every weekend, stream booktv

[applause] >> about six years ago rick bitter ginsberg was a lecturer -- ruth bader ginsburg was a lecturer, and she talked about how lonely it was to be a woman on the supreme court bench, so i know he will do the right thing. i also have to tell you our students last year provided 85,000 hours of legal services to the most vulnerable d.c. residents through our critical program, which is the most extensive in the country. they are here to make a change. thank you, senator leahy. you rock. [applause] >> senator's remarks on the role of a federal judge. we will hear from republican senator, jeff sessions, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, and dick durbin of illinois. this is almost 40 minutes. a new justice to the supreme court of the united states brings to our minds a core question both for the senate and the american people, than is what is the proper role of a federal judge in our republic? answering this question is not simply an academic task. it's fundamental to what we will be doing here. how the american people and their representatives and their senators, the ones w

ruth is on the line calling as a democrat. hi there. >> hi. i would like to find out what she thinks about free speech in journalism when npr has chosen not to use the word torture when they report on our treatment of our prisoners. and when the presidents bush and obama take press conferences with reporters that give them sympathetic questions to their views. >> thanks. liz? >> certainly we've seen lately about a real sort of constructing of the variety of news sources, all owned by a couple of companies, you know, that is troubling that there aren't a multiplicity of sources. i will say, though, there has been an explosion in terms of alternative sources for media. we see the story of i ran coming out through twitter which is just amazing and facebook which is amazing so while there are tendencies toward this conformity in the media, there are also amazing alternative outlets we can all seek but again, yes, i think there is -- when the nation perceives itself to be at war and national security to be threatened, there is an enormous amount of

. >> this week, supreme court justice ruth bennett ginsberg talks about the court cases this term. that is at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> national intelligence director dennis blair discusses the intelligence community and his trip to afghanistan, pakistan, and singapore. this is just under one hour. >> thank you ellen. eight is good to be here this evening. their way to many friends in the audience for me to tell my usual stories. you have either heard them before or know that they are wrong, so i will have to make it up here as i go along. but, it is a pleasure to be here with all of you who have been friends of longstanding and come together as a group to support u.s. intelligence. let me start by thanking for the truly and press the devitt alliance of movers and shakers in the intelligence and national security communities. there's certainly no form quite like it, government come industry, academia to share this commitment to meeting the challenges of our times. it was an honor for me to be seated with some of the founders of this organization at the table here earlier this

. >> who was or is ruth stein? >> in the "fugitive days" issue is a moment -- you was a woman who was an older radical who really love to learn from. she passed away many years ago. i do remember in what context i bring her up in action was the artist at the university of michigan with from my reading of a "fugitive days" statute involved in anti workmen. >> yes, because i changed the names because i rode it 10 years ago. in she was someone who is from new york and a lot more sophisticated than i was. i had quit school and joined the merchant marines when i was 19 and when i came from a stint in the merchant marines i went back to the campus. every connected with her and she took me to my first anti-war meeting. >> in my reading until may and this is where, bill ayers, in my reading of "fugitive days", it seems as if he drifted into the anti-war movement. is that a fair statement? >> you know, in some sense, i think that all life is the kind of combination of choice in chance. i don't think that any of us can look