scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think come a we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of holding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision.

scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read?he constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think, we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of upholding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision. you have it wrong. >> these 5-4 decisions where she is on one side -- >> that's because the press focuses on the 25% of the heady cases, the constitutional cases. most of what we are doing is trying to interpret dense statu

scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think come a we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of holding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision. you have it wrong. >> these 5-4 decisions where she is on one side -- >> that's because the press focuses on the 25% of the heady cages, the constitutional cases. most of what we are doing is trying to interpret dense

ruth and i did that with one another's opinions. she would suggest different stuff i could put an end i would her as well. >> our time is up. i'm sorry about that. i want to thank our wonderful, attentive audience. i want to thank the many who listened all over the world, but most important way, i want to thank our remarkable guests, to sitting justices of the supreme court of the united states, antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. thank you both so much. [applause] and as we now close, i want to say thank you to all of the people who have made this kind of civilized conversation possible and they know they are. that's all we can do for now. i am marvin kalb and as edward murrow used to say, good night and good luck. [applause] thank you so much. these are going out? this is still being seen on c-span. the first question in front of me is to justice scalia. why are you the way that you are? [laughter] you could hit a home run on that. >> the devil makes me do it. [laughter] >> justice insperity, the next question from josh gibson

commissioners i'm ruth. and i want to acknowledge and applauded your staff for all the work for many, many years on this amendment of this element of our master plan. is it perfect i don't think so i hope you'll forgive me for tightening up grammar and there's points that are very valued but overall it's an excellent continuums i'm pleased we r with other cities we're acknowledging our diversity that our city niece to embrace many, many cities have biological diversity. we hear a false dichotomy this is totally unfounded but we a areers are real fans of the plants and we love the rose garden and the conservative of flowers this isn't about native plants vs. non-native but where the indigenous that nature put here hadn't been destroyed we need to make sure we're consistent with what nature gave us we we restore no time the elements of bio diversity bike the collection of baseball cards or something but provide for the processes that among ecology systems work it's more collected than counting the numbers of s

perhaps a surprising take from ruth marcus at t"the washington post" about this.rly it didn't make its way through the senate. i don't think the president ever thought it would. what's the latest on this issue? >> this has been if you look at what they've been doing on particularly economic issues focused on women, this is all part of the election year strategy for the democratic party. so, you know, this is -- i think ruth is just being very clear eyed about what this week has been about and what it's not. and that's what this has been about. this has been about giving the democrats something to run on. by the way, this is a preview of what the fall campaign is going to look like. you're going to have democrats having one conversation with their set of voters about issues that they know do fire up democrats whether it's raising the minimum wage, whether it is paycheck fairness, whether it is some social issue. then republicans will have a totally separate conversation about health care and antagonizing the president, things like that. then it just becomes this wh

first of all ruth memorial bayview opera house. it's been historic. i want to thank leader pelosi for helping us get on the national historic registry. it's that qualified, yes. [ applause ] a qualified and major attention and when that was done, we had a lot of partners and we spent most of the time thanking treasures like this and how we can turn historic sites into meaningful active sites along third street. i'm really glad to be joining folks like louis herrera because he has that library going and that's an active site. to all of our other city agencies, office with disabilities here, our other departments are here. they are active along third street, our invested neighborhoods are here. you can literally see these restaurant and food establishments. i will name a few that i can go into a while that i can name, of course. where i get my waffles and chicken. old school cafe. you have establishments along the way like let's eat barbecue and things that we have invested in along third street to not only make it active, to support institutions like t

. >> joining me now, chris si cillizza and "washington post" editorial columnist, ruth marcus. ruth, first to you, this was a tough, tough road for kathleen sebelius who had a sterling political reputation when she came in and got socked with all of the problems along the way. >> i think you used a really good word when you said pinata. being the secretary of hhs, it's a sprawling, sprawling enterprise, it is really hard under the best of circumstances overseeing the implementation of obama care was far from the best of circumstances. it's a really hard job. it looks a lot more pleasant and easier for kathleen sebelius to be leaving now with 7.1 or whatever the current number is enrolled rather than several months ago when the whole situation seemed like a debacle. that said, she did have a rocky tenure there and it -- obama care may well -- i hope it will turn out to be a success, expanding health care but the implementation of it which was on her watch did not go as well as it should have. and i think while she had -- as i say a very difficult situation, she does also bear so

let me bring in our company, ryan grimm, ruth marcus is columnist for "the washington post." good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> you have what have been overwhelmingly positive headlines on health care and a huge turnaround in how much momentum the president is carrying today. look, we've got this new poll from quinnipiac that shows people are evenly split, in fact, a little bit favoring the democrats there, ryan, on who they would vote for in congressional races. has the momentum shifted? >> i think it certainly has shifted, and we'll see how deeply this penetrates and whether candidates start running towards obamacare instead of away from it with this good news here, but it's kind of a remarkable state of affairs in politics, where we're having fundamental discussions about what kind of a society do we want here. talking about health care and wages is quite a departure from what the american political system is used to. we're asking the question if you get laid off, should that be a death sentence, should, you know, do you need a job to have it tied to health care and

the 75-year-old stephen breyer and 81-year-old ruth ginsberg. and some liberals have argued they should consider retiring soon to ensure that president obama can pick their replacement. the retire now call is most often directed at ginsburg, who has battled some health problems, though she says she's fit and healthy now. for court watchers the big news this week is ginsburg turned out -- she sought advice about retirement from the court's one-time liberal lion, justice john paul stevens, who left the court at the age of 90 in 2010, enabling obama to appoint elena kagan. >> my decision was not made for any political reason whatsoever. it was my concern about my own health. >> do you think it's something that justices should take into account? >> i think so. i think certainly it's a natural and appropriate thing to think about your successor. you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes. >> so if justice ginsburg came to you and asked your advice? >> i'd say she do

ruth was happy with the letter. what is the administration doing behind the scenes? >> if i i nounsed what they are doing behind the scenes, but let's be clear, the last thing we should do is play a goliath. this is not a david, it's not a just causes, the venezuela find themselves in these tough straights because of their incompetence, an inability to manage one of the richest economies in latin america. they are a natural resource-rich country and created such havoc and destruction and other factors and are the most violent country in south america. it's because of these things that they find themselves in a crisis, and what the administration must do and is doing is supporting the civil descent or the opposition to the government. that makes all the assistance in the world. >> without acting as a goliath, you can speak about it and the letter called op president obama to take action. she said mentioning venezuela would be enough. it's something that seems to be ignored as people have been dying in a country important to the united states. >> there's no question. i

gave -- ruth bader ginsburg. the nationalak at press club here in washington. you can see that at 6:00 eastern. in a few minutes on c-span, a supreme court oral argument on the change of the future of software patents. the court is considering whether a court can patent international financial transactions. we will show you that oral argument in a few minutes. first, a conversation on the case with a reporter from bloomberg news. >> set up this case and its significance. >> this is a fight between a patent holder and a company called alice corporation and another company called cls bank. infringed they patents that cover a system that do something called intermediated settlement. i will try to unpack that all a way of if two parties are engaged in a financial transaction and did something where you would actually exchange assets in the future, a derivative contract, it is a way of making sure both parties have the assets they have promised to exchange on that future date. is question on that case whether that sys

ruth is bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she's a really good textual list. in most things where the text is what she is guided by, she is terrific. she is very smart. in most cases, i think, we are together. we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases. upholding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are frequently in the sent -- in dissent from the court's decision. we agree on a lot. you have it wrong. >> you can watch the entire tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. on the next "washington journal," creating jobs with brey and daniel mitchell of the cato institute. outlines options for the federal reserve to stabilize the economy and matthew at the wilson center discussions vladimir putin and the unrest in ukraine. and we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" on c-span. at the white house, president obama awarded the table academy football team with the commander-in-chief trophy. he also spoke briefly from the rose garden. this is 10 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the

ruth, you're the lawyer here.ou have a former fbi agent and now a congressman. >> pleading not guilty. >> pleading not guilty, not guilty until whatever happens, innocent until proved, but this is once you are indicted, isn't there under house ethics a whole step where you're supposed to step back from congress? >> you may need to step back from your committee assignments, it's up to the speaker and leadership, but he is in a lot more trouble based on my reading of the indictment and as you say, not proved, burden of proof all of that. more trouble than retaining his congressional seat. if the facts in this indictment are true he's going to prison. it actually doesn't involve his congressional service. i think it started with a campaign finance investigation but it moved to a business that he ran, a health food restaurant where basically he was under reporting the money that he was paying to employees to the authorities so he didn't have to pay as much in social security taxes and unemployment compensation, insura

ruth coniff, editor in chief of the progressive magazine from wisconsin joins us tonight.t wisconsin is a state that is politically rich and anything can happen, but this? ruth can we take this petition seriously? what wing of the republican party is coming up with this? >> it's the tea party wing. you know, it puts walkner a real jam. because our governor, scott walker has said in the past that he was the original tea partier in wisconsin. well, you know, he doesn't really like it now. it looks bad for him to have to, as he floats the idea of a presidential campaign, be running for reelection for governor in a state that might want to be a nation all to its own. it's not great for him. and also the republican party which was founded in wisconsin in 1854 as an opponent of secession. it was founded to defend the union, lincoln for president, to fight against slavery. so they've really come full circumstance wl this one. >> what is this threat of secession actually accomplish for the republicans? i mean, what is this -- what is this -- why are they doing this? do they really

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joining me now for our daily fix, chris sicillizza and ruth marcus.s far as i know, i've never heard of why someone would cross the rio grande and go through all of the legal jeopardy and physical dangers to come in illegally for sex. there seem to be easier ways to accomplish that purpose. >> donald trump is just -- donald trump is getting what he wants, which is getting people to talk about donald trump. i will say i do think it is telling that when he mentioned the act of love comment, there were some boos from the crowd. i think jeb bush's position on immigration, forget donald trump. just throw him out. that would be great for all of us, wouldn't it? jeb bush's position on immigration would put him to the center left of where we saw the republican party in 2012. remember mitt romney infamously -- >> self-deportation. >> i do think jeb bush is aware of this but his immigration stance is different than -- i don't want to say majority of the base but a significant chunk of the republican base. that would be an issue in 2016 in the republican preside

ruth, good to have you with us tonight. glen grothman on women's rights.that sound like to you? >> get ready, ed. get ready, america. we've been watching glen here in wisconsin for awhile. and if you thought scott walker was extreme, wait until you get a load of glen grothman. glen is -- he's a true believer. i have to give him that. he will talk to anybody, and he will say things that his republican colleagues will not say. because they alienate people. and he's the guy who's really obsessed with other people's families and with women's reproductive choices in a way that is pretty far out there. not to mention the fact that he recently sponsored a bill to repeal the weekend because he thinks that workers don't do anything on their day off. people ought to be able to work seven days in a row, he says. so yeah, i think people are going to be surprised when they meet glenn. >> he has sponsored a bill to repeal the weekend. >> that's right, ed. yeah. glenn feels that people need to work seven-days in a row. >> what was his logic behind that? what did he say a

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also remotely from washington is "washington post" columnist ruth marcus.umn today emphasizes that relationship. >> i had great material to work with. >> great material you're working with here. to listen to the taped conversation between the octogenarian owner and the 30 something v.stiviano is to glimpse the tawdry and inherentry arrangement between, well, let's put it primly, benefit and recipient. >> some people how you respond to that depends on maybe partly what your gender is or partly what your perceptions are. it's been incredibly well read. i've been reading some of the comments. >> are you finding women are angry at that characterization at all? >> i don't think so. and it maybe depends on whether you identify with -- i don't really want to say identify with the wronged wife. because she sort of has her own role in all of this. i think what's interesting to me about this story is we all sort of looked at that picture, right? we understood what we thought was going on here. and my initial reaction was, look, both sides in this transaction knew wha

that he was going to finally get home to his beloved family, because he paid a huge price, he and ruthe gave up. and i know you guys know that. but -- >> what was he like as a grandfather? >> that's probably the question we get asked the most often. i think people would like to know he was just a very normal grandfather. very hands on grandfather. came to my school programs. just very much -- i think people would like to know behind the scenes, at home in his living room, he is the same humble man. >> he was as normal as a grandfather can be while still you know, fielding phone calls from the president of the united states. >> you know who is the unsung heroine in the whole thing is ruth, his long time wife. your grandma was there through everything, yeah. well, how is he doing today? we have to ask. because he's a little feeble now. we were at his birthday party. he's doing great or how is? >> he is. >> i saw him just about a month ago, and he's stable, but fragile. and, you know, when he's 95 years old, you want to hold on to him as long as you can, but i think he's ready to go home

i was going to see ruth norton one hundred and 12-year-old we're ready things to the fire chief and excessively we continue to practice just a few weeks ago were traveling for a tsunami going through what we would do to make sure we practice over and over again. because while we may fear an earthquake we don't fear what we'll do in the aftermath. that's why we have a 4 hundred million earthquake safety bond this june we are going to continue reinvesting in our high pressure water system and make sure our applications are seismicly save and get people into save places. this bond compliments the one in 2010 so we're ready. i'm ready are you all ready? all right. thank you again, i want to say thanks to the chief and the emergency management they're using social media anybody using sf yet >> next door our sf organizing we're going to have a whole generation of people in the city that loans what it's like to go through this we're going to be a strong program and train a lot of people in cpr and again, i want to thank all the investigators today, there or so many of you to celebrate and thank you, e

ruth bader ginsburg is subject to the same type of criticism. she speaks often to liberal groups.ultural touchstone did not make any type of public appearances, sort of a graduation speech. and what we're seeing is the time of sort of a silent justice. i think it's not a good thing. last week both scalia and ginsburg talked about the possibility of a ruling in the nsa surveillance controversy. and it really took my breath away. you know, these justices have to decide whether they want to pursue this type of celebrity status or whether they want to live a life on the court and allow as stevens did, his opinions to speak for him. >> john, let me ask you, is this a result of i'm not going to take on celebrity cases but calls it celeb, but you're the expert here, that seem more overtly political. that seem to stir controversy on one or both sides of the aisle? i suppose it's a chicken or an egg scenario. but i mean, does that play a role in the justices seeking higher profile on the news media? >> i think it's a combination of things, alex. one of them is this whole move towards media

facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall.ad begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvemen

two tornado watch boxes we're watching ruth now. one in north carolina, one here out across parts of southern mississippi, both or these expire at 9:00 p.m. local time but these storms here so far across parts of southern mississippi and in toward the panhandle of florida, they all have hail and wind. i think in the next hour we'll see some of these begin to get the rotation, turn into tornadoes and then we have a very rough night ahead of us, some very large tornadoes right here. want to tell you we have one tornado warning on the ground here across parts of north carolina, to the east of fayetteville. so we'll see severe weather across michigan and mid-atlantic, tomorrow the threat is a little farther to the east. not until thursday before at it gone. we'll deal with very heavy rain. this green is flash-flood watchings or warnings right now. many areas will see three to five inches of rain, maybe up to eight inches, following in a short amount of time. so flooding is a concern for a lot of people in the northeast. >> amazing. rick

ruth, you have written about this in your column that went online today. the senate intelligence committee has sent its controversial torture report on cia interrogations during the bush administration to president obama for review and declassification. over writing objections from john brennan. in response, michael hayden suggested that dianne feinstein was somehow overreacting. perhaps it's a woman thing? >> i read an article by david ignatius earlier this week and he said -- >> columnist for the "washington post." >> he said senator feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an un-american brutal program of detention and interrogation would never again be considered or permitted. now, that sentence, that motivation for the report, chris, may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator, but i don't think it leads you to an objective report. >> senator dianne feinstein joins me now from capitol hill. i think this is your first television response to that comment, senator. i want to ask you, where do we begin with that? what

scary world war iii vibe with the russians, we expect the president especially one who ran as babe ruthnow, that looks like a strikeout to me, leslie. >> well, if we're going to say baseball, being a boston red sox girl, babe ruth did not always get home runs. i think the president was being truthful. i think every president in this country, whether democrat or republican, has made errors. if we look back historically, are we calling vietnam or korea home runs? maybe in hindsight, invading the sovereign nation of iraq -- there have been a lot of mistakes by presidents on both sides of the aisle -- >> a lot of people argue about leadership and whether you think singles and doubles are just as good and you admit to that. where's the positive press? the president said there's a lot of positive press that maybe fox news isn't covering. and yet his major supporters are writing editorials like the one i just read. >> blaming fox news is small ball again and it's petty. he ought to be above that. he's the president of the united states. on his foreign policy -- his foreign policy to the extent

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for more on this, let's turn to ruth connaught. good to have you with us tonight. in wisconsin get the attention of a huge group like americans for prosperity? i mean, they are down to the very local level, are they not? >> they are absolutely, ed. you're right. and it's never happened before. in fact, i was talking to some campaign finance watchdogs today who said they have never seen anything like it. we're accustomed to the koch brothers coming in with governor walker. they said they spent a lot of money in wisconsin. they're going to spend more. they come in big in congressional races. they came in big against senator tammy baldwin. but now what they're doing is coming in to a tiny community like the iron county board race and sending flyers to the neighbors of folks who run in what have almost been uncontested races, slamming and smearing local folks who want to serve on the county board. and the reason that they're doing it is because there is a great big open pit mine. the county board is going to make a decision about that mine. and the koch brothers want t

darn i would done but thank you anyway >> hi i'm not ruth compete she had to go to a rehearsal we representhe arts community not foifld with the school district we had goals of the peace recommendation we came up with to stabilize peace and so have the equality education for arts discipline so we'll look forward to discussing i'm not going to go over them one recommendation in particular is shared and that's to end the end time payment that will free up $4 million currently 15 percent for the critical programs. and including arts education but including other really important programs i look forward to sdugsz discussing that i'm here as a representative for the children's coalition i wanted to respond to the suggestion of an oc oc collaborative to oversee both funds we have concerns about the collaborative and what that looks like the impetus should come from the mayor's office and in order for it to be fully effective and a collaboration only body so i appreciate the comment of no hostile takeovers they don't happen i should clarify those two funds the coordination not consolidation and we

babe ruth called his shot here.s, sammy sosa. >> billy williams. hit a lot of home runs here. >> it is a museum of memories. everywhere you look, you remember something. >> one of the great things you remember as governor is do declarations like this. the other thing you have to do is run for re-election. let's talk about that. how's that going? >> i think pretty well. you know, the state is -- we're the 19th largest economy in the world. unemployment rate went down 0.3 of 1% in the last report. we're growing jobs so we've got to keep on doing it. we have a lot of work to do there but i think our state has turned the corner. when i became governor we had one former governor going to jail and one in jail. we got to straighten that out and we have. >> what's the story, the problem, every state has pension problems. illinois has specifically a very large pension problem. what's the story with going forward and taking care of the pension problems, and what's your relationship with rahm emanuel? >> we passed the pension