charlie: a rare conversation with ruth bader ginsburg and justice sotomayor. arlie: let me take note of the fact they have both written books. "my beloved world." justice ginsburg, "my own words." a compilation of speeches she has written. i want to start with this. looking back on your life, justice ginsburg, thinking even though it was incorporated in speeches, what was that like for you, to put your own life and focus? justice ginsburg: "my own word" is a collection of speeches, bench announcements, tributes to colleagues. it is not a biography of may to the extent that my life is told. it is in the introductory passages that my official biographers wrote. that biography will come out sometime in the distant future. charlie: but your book, "my beloved world," you said i am my mother. what did you mean? justice sotomayor: as i tell her, good and bad. i am my mother's child. she aspired to be more than her circumstances. she wanted to go to college. she lived in the poorest circumstances. she would watch the college girls walked by her house, going to the post

we talked to ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor.ustice ginsburg: i thought of myself as a teacher. my parents but teaching would be a good occupation from me. women were not welcome as doctors and lawyers. i realized i was facing an audience that did not know what i was talking about. most men at that time thought that the law was riddled with gender-based distinctions but they operated in the women's favor. a woman didn't have to serve on

charlie: a rare conversation with ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor. the supreme court kicked off its term this month with only eight justices on the desk. tonight we hear all about the court and the love of law from two justices. let me begin and take note of the fact that you have both written books. sonia sotomayor, "my beloved world." justice ginsburg, "my own words." it is a compilation of speeches she has written. i want to start with this. looking back on your life, justice ginsburg, thinking even though it was incorporated in speeches, what was that like for you, to put your own life in focus? how was that? justice ginsburg: "my own word" as you said is a collection of speeches, bench announcements, tributes to colleagues. it is not a biography of me to the extent that my life is told. it is in the introductory passages that my official biographers wrote. that biography will come out sometime in the distant future. [laughter] charlie: in your book, "my beloved world," you said "i am my mother." what did you mean? justice sotomayor: as i tell he

we talked to ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor.ustice ginsburg: i thought of myself in those days as a teacher. my parents thought that teaching would be a good occupation from me. because women were broken there and women were not welcome as doctors, lawyers, and engineers. i realized i was facing an audience that did not know what i was talking about. they understood race discrimination, that was odious. but most men at that time thought that the law was riddled with gender-based distinctions but they operated in the women's favor. like, a woman did not have to serve on a jury if she did not want to. so that was a benefit. eavesdropping reflected curiosity. i think that is what drew me. charlie: a rare conversation with ruth bader ginsburg and justice sonia sotomayor. as you know, the supreme court kicked off its term with only eight supreme court justices. today, we hear about the court and the love of law from two justices. let me begin and take note of the fact that they are both written books. sonia sotomayor, "my beloved wor

a law professor discusses the case with introductions by ruth bader ginsburg. p.m., sacco and venzetti were transmitted to the death house. the boston press declare the case closed. presidency,on the historian george nash talks about herbert hoover's humanitarian efforts during world war i and ii. >> hoover, working voluntarily and without pay, became an international hero, the embodiment of a new force in .lobal politics american benevolence in the form of humanitarian aid programs. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to cspan.org. >> japanese torpedoes capsized the u.s. oklahoma within 10 minutes during the pearl harbor attack of december 7, 1941. the ship suffered 429 casualties. only 35 of the dead were identified. a military board in 1949 ruled that the identities of most of the lost crew were nonrecoverable. their remains were buried in 46 plots at honolulu's punch bowl cemetery. a 2015 defense department order prompted a renewed search for their identities in the hope of returning them to their families under the supervision of the defen

and senator moynihan said ruth bader ginsburg. why? why, because gene griswald the long time dean of harvard law school thinks she's very good. and this is the dean that said i could not have a harvard law degree because i didn't stay with them a third year. life is so many things occur and you don't know whether they are going to turn out to be good or bad. but this one was certainly good. there was a celebration at the court of the 50th anniversary of the building. so the building was completed in 1935 and this was 1985. dean gris wald was then solicitier general. he was to make a speech about great advocates before the court. and by 1985, he realizes that he can't have a list that is all men. so thurgood marshal, the next person he mentions is ruth bader ginsburg. >> when i went through my nomination process, i was told that every one should have had a marty ginsburg. he apparently came into the presentation session with folder-- the preparation session with folders including all of ruth's speeches, her entire schedule for her entir

controversy surrounding the case inside the supreme court chamber, with introductions by justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> at nine: 10:00 p.m., they were transferred to the death house. the governor, after reading the unanimous committee report, declares that they had had a fair trial. the boston press declared the case closed. >> at 8:00 on the presidency, historian george nash talks about herbert hoover's humanitarian efforts during world war i and world war ii. >> in the course of these exertions, hoover, working voluntarily and without pay, became an international hero. the embodiment of the new force in global politics. american benevolence in the form of humanitarian aide programs. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> often, when you look at a toject, you like afterwards see whether you have achieved your objectives and at what cost. i wanted to see, through this last half-century of military intervention, partisan politics aside, morality aside, what happens after the party is over. what are the aftereffects of four? what are the humanity and nature costs on both sides? >> 78 on "q&

ginsburg to ruth bader and sonia soto mayor. myself as a of teacher. my parents but teaching would be a good occupation from me. they were not welcome as doctors and lawyers. realize i was facing an audience that did not know what i was talking about. time thoughthat law was riddled with gender-based distinctions but they operated the nine lane in women's favor. a woman didn't have to serve on a jury pick if she did not want to. so that was a benefit. >> the he's dropping reflected curiosity. is what drew me. charlie: a rear conversation and ruth bader ginsburg sotymor.s justice sonia >> let me take note of the fact they have both written books. my beloved world. my own words.rg, a compilation of speeches she has written. i want to start with this. life,g back on your justice ginsburg, thinking even though it was incorporated in speeches, what was that like for life andut your own focus? >> my own word is a collection of speeches, bench announcements, tributes to colleagues. of may toa biography the extent that my life is told. it is in the introductor

with introductions by ruth bader ginsburg. sensitive transfer to the death house. the guff -- the governor after reading the report declared they had a fair trial. the press declared >> the case close. and on the presidency george nash talks about herbert hoover's humanitarian efforts during world war i and two. >> overworking voluntarily and without a became an international hero, the embodiment of a new force in global politics, american benevolence in the form of humanitarian aid programs. >> for a complete set -- schedule go to c-span.org. a look at the lobby of trump tower in new york city. tosident elect trump plans name -- for his choice of secretary of state, according to two sources. mr. tillotson has been president of the texas-based oil company since 2004 and met with the president elect earlier today. his name has been on a growing list of potential choices to have the state department. yesterday rudy giuliani officially took his name out of consideration for the post. another potential nominee included mitt romney. journalists spoke about the challenge

and senator moynahan said ruth bader ginsburg. the president asked why. he said, because dean griswold, the longtime dean of harvard law school, thinks she is very good. i could not have a harvard law degree because i did not stay there for my third year. life is -- so many chance things occur and you don't know if they will turn out to be good or bad. this was certainly good. there was a celebration at the court of the 50th anniversary of the building. so, the building was completed in 1935. this was 1985. dean griswold was solicitor general. he was to make a speech about great advocates before the court. and by 1985 he realizes that he cannot have a list with all men. so, after he finishes his with thurgood marshall, the next person he mentions his ruth bader ginsburg. charlie: yes. justice sotomayor: when i went for my nomination process, i was told everyone should have had a marty ginsburg as a muse in their life. [laughter] justice sotomayor: he apparently came into the preparation session with folders including all of ruth's speeches, her entire sch

itroductions by jews rated -- justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> they were transferred to the death house. the governor, after reading the unanimous report declared that there had been a fair trial. the case was declared closed. announcer: then, a discussion on humanitarianr's efforts during world war ii. >> working voluntarily and a hero,pay he became the embodiment of a new force of benevolence and humanitarian aid programs. announcer: for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. next, president and mrs. obama host a white house reception for the 2016 kennedy center honorees. then, honoring senator harry reid of nevada. later, a discussion on free speech and the incoming trump administration. first ladybama and michelle obama hosted a white house reception for the 2016 kennedy center honorees. they included pianist martha oakridge, actor open chino, singer james taylor, mavis staples, and the girls rock -- the eagles rock band. this is about 25 minutes. [indiscernible conversation] >> ladies and gentlemen, the 2016 kennedy center honorees. martha argerich. [applause] >> al pacino. [applau

ruth bader ginsburg. now, i have a lot of question about these. >> these are all actually true. >> seth: oh, these are true. >> all the other ones are fake this one is real. >> seth: so you actually got verification that rbg has all of these things. including dave and buster tickets. >> yeah. [ laughter ] she's a power player. >> seth: she's a power player at dave and busters. what are these? >> oh, those are cheese balls. do you remember those in the tub? >> seth: yeah. >> i think she's got like a tub. she's got to have snacks with her. >> seth: sure. but don't you think that's a bad snack to have? oh that's why she wears the gloves. to keep the cheese puffs off her fingers. i was going to bust that was the whole in the logic. but, you got the gloves. [ laughter ] although, i would like to point out, white gloves are going to show cheese puffs too. >> i just improvise that. >> seth: what is this? >> this is her dickie. >> seth: right. that's actually her dickie and then -- >> warby parker. and then you p

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a law professor discusses the case with introductions by ruth bader ginsburg. p.m., sacco and venzetti were transmitted to the death house. the boston press declare the case closed. presidency,on the historian george nash talks about herbert hoover's humanitarian efforts during world war i and ii. >> hoover, working voluntarily and without pay, became an international hero, the

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should justice kennedy or either of the court's oldest liberals, ruth bader ginsburg or stephen breyer, retire, trump could change the court for a generation by creating a 6-3 conservative majority for the first time since the 1930s. to be sure, it's not clear sailing for trump's agenda. a dozen returning republican senators, roughly one in four, rejected or never endorsed trump's presidential bid, and they may push back on some of his nominees and proposals. still, it's a striking measure of what has changed that a republican who won the two biggest landslides in his party's history could change far to office by so narrow aedsed margin has the potential to change so much more. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, saturday. >> stewart: the 114th session of congress wrapped up early this morning with the government averting a shutdown when the senate sent a stop-gap spending bill to president obama. the bill passed after senate democrats ended their showdown with republicans over expiring healthcare benefits for coal miners just before midnight. democrats had wanted those benefits to last t

around the case inside the supreme court chambers with introductions by which gator ins bert -- ruth bader ginsburg. >> that were transferred to the debt has printed the governor after reading -- they were transferred to the death chamber. the boston press declared the case closed. announcer: on the presidency, a historian talks about herbert hoover's humanitarian efforts. >> in the course of the exertions, hoover working voluntarily and without pay became an international hero, the embodiment of a new force in the global politics. benevolence in the form of humanitarian aid programs. announcer: for complete schedule, go to c-span.org. announcement president obama gave his final national security buriedin tampa, florida he talks about counterterrorism efforts and other national security issues addressed by his administration over the last eight years. this is 50 minutes. [applause] ♪ announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ [cheers and applause] pres. obama: thank you so much. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you so much. everybody, thank you. thank you very much

. >> let me say that we are very honored tonight and grateful to our host justice ruth bader ginsburgisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. i will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. no one in the society can call a time when she declined other an

snyder: let me say that we are very honored tonight and grateful to our host justice ruth bader ginsburg

his memorial service with remarks from fellow justices clarence thomas and ruth gators pittsburgh -- gator ginsburg -- ruth bader ginsburg. school l calia was pointed to the high 1986.in [captions copyright national [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2016] >> we didn't have a chance to do at the beautiful funeral mass. [capping performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content capticaption conten and accura. visit ncicap.org]t >> this memorial is an opportunity to do two things we to do at e the chance mass eautiful funeral earlier this month. father's tribute to my life and career and time for families and friends to spend some time together in an afterward. i couldn't begin to convey my thoughts about my father in the of time that i've allotted myself for this introduction, so i thought i just one t myself to recollection which is a dinner party my parents had years ago. guests had just left and my standing in were the front hallway. i want to be clear very quickly that my point in telling ou this story is not to underscore that he did not people in of

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controversy surrounding the case inside the supreme court chamber with introductions by justice ruth bader ginsburg. , aat 9:10 p.m. on august 3 3, were and venzetti transferred to the death house. the boston press declare the case closed. 8:00, historian george nash talks about herbert huber some managerial efforts during world wars wanted ii. >> in the course of these exertions, hoover working without pay became an international hero. the embodiment of a new force in global politics. the formbenevolence in of humanitarian aid programs. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> next, in honor of veterans day, the friends of the national world war ii memorial co-hosted a ceremony with the national parks service at the world war ii memorial on national mall. the keynote speaker is allen hauerton who served as a rifleman and messenger and company communications sergeant with the u.s. army's 84th infantry division. the 55-minute program begin with flag presentations zoo r to over a dozen world war ii veterans in attendance. .

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snyder: let me say that we are very honored tonight and grateful to our host justice ruth bader ginsburg. she will be introducing one of our favorite lecturers from the university of wisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. i will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. no one in the society can call a time when she declined other than when she has been out of the country when we requested for assistance. we thank her again this evening. [applause] >> but we have just a moment. let me have just a moment. i know. give me a moment because justice ginsburg's special, as we all know right now. justice ginsburg was born in brooklyn on the ides of march in 1933. she graduated with a great distinction from cornell and she was doing superbly at harvard for the first two years when she moved to new york and finished at columbia. workingt two years for a federal judge in new york. she learned swedish to be able to write a book about swedish civil proc

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i would look at ruth bader ginsburg. she's over 80 and liberal. it could change. the law is what the supreme court says it is as the end of the day. we could point to precedent. ultimately, if the course reverses that long term, we could see a major shift. i think that's what emboldening states like ohio opinion. >> there is one of the most restrictive. banning it at the moment a heart beat is detected is at about six weeks. do you see other states falling suit? >> we have seen this before. in arkansas, they tried to pass such a measure. it was rejected as unconstitutional. as we saw in the piece, north dakota attempted the same thing. gn that was rejected, too. conservative justices were there, but it didn't make to it the supreme court level. justices said, you know what, the law is what it the. we're bound to follow precedent, regardless of our personal views. but again, i think, ultimately, this ohio bill, i do believe, as it goes through the channels will be declard unconstitutional, if the governor science it and it becomes law. long-term, i

ginsburg to ruth bader and sonia soto mayor. myself as a of teacher. my parents but teaching would be a good occupation from me. they were not welcome as doctors and lawyers. realize i was facing an audience that did not know what i was talking about. time thoughthat law was riddled with gender-based distinctions but they operated the nine lane in

ruth bader ginsburg, 83 years old. stephen breyer, 78 years old. are supporters of abortion rights and they may not serve for the full four years of donald trump's tenure. if he has the chance to replace them, then abortion rights -- the calculus will very likely change in the united states. >> we did see the successful blocking of president obama's pick, garland, is there a possibility here that democrats could use the same type of measures despite the fact that they're not in power to try to block some of these possible appointments? >> it's much, much harder without a majority. it's easy with a majority. one of the things that comes with controlling the majority of the senate is control of the agenda. so when mitch mcconnell said i will not bring merit garland up for a vote, that was the end of the story. now the problem for the democrats is they don't have a majority. now they have 48 seats, which is a lot of seats. certainly they can use a lot of delaying tactics. the filibuster still exists for supreme court appointments, but ultimately it wi

oz, billy baldwin, justice ruth bader ginsburg, and the chanucorn tries out for the harlem globetrotterse! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you for joining me this evening. tonight we're going to have some schmoozing, some kibbutzing, and if you're lucky, maybe even a little mishegos. >> jimmy: stop this, please. what is going on? >> i'm hosting my own primetime hanukkah special. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he is not. you're stealing time away from my show right now. this is my show. it's not a primetime special. >> if you keep this up, i'm going to call security. and speaking of securi welcome my security guard, shlomomo. [ cheers and applause ] >> shalom! oi vey, mazza ball soups. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: guillermo, what are you doing? >> can't a person make i living? >> okay, all right, there they go. let's take a break. there they go -- >> no, no, jimmy. can i at least bring out my eight special celebrity guests? >> jimmy: no, you cannot. >> how about five? special celebrity guests? >> jimmy: no, none. >> one, one, one. >> jimmy: if i let you bring out one celebrity guest, will y

no democrat would say that except for bizarrely ruth bader ginsburg and she had to apologize. >> i have heard that from some other democrats who don't want that. they are afraid it would make the base angry by saying what rich just said, that bill clinton would figure out how to close this gap culturally. >> that's part of why particularly young people did not vote his wife. you cannot -- we cannot just follow the conservative southern strategy to try to split working class people who are white from working class people who are people of color. this is a moment for democrats and progressives to recognize that when you have a strate the 1% by dividing everybody else, you will always lose. it will always be close margins. >> it was a change election. we saw it as early as the new hampshire primary. she was not connecting not just to the working class voters but to the young people and to the women, the young women. that generation gap was a major problem for her. >> i think another thing that will be difficult for democrats, and can't get their heads around the fact the party was devastat

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no democrat would say except for ruth bader ginsburg and she had to apologize. >> i have heard from other democrats who do not want to make quoted on record because they're afraid it would make the base angry, that if bill clinton would figure out how to close this gap culturally. >> that's part of why you cannot -- we cannot just follow the conservative southern strategy to try to split working class people who are white from people of color. this is a moment for democrats and progressives of all sort to recognize that when you have a strategy that's actually just propping up the 1% by dividing everybody else, you will always lose. it will always be close margins. >> also, that it was a change election. we saw it as early as the new hampshire primary. not just to the working class voters but to the young people and to the women -- the young women. that generation gap was a major problem. >> i think another thing that will be difficult for democrats at the end of the bush years, republicans were ready to move on from bush and the democrats can't move on from obama. >> that hurt the cent r

justice scalia answered quickly and distinctly, ruth bader ginsburg. and within days, the president chose me. among justice scalia's many talents, he was a discerning shopper. together in 1994, our driver took us to friend's carpet shop, one rug after another was tossed on the floor, leaving me with no clue which to chose. he pointed to one he thought maureen would like for their beach house in north carolina. i picked the same design in a different color. it has worn very well. once asked how we could be friends given our disagreement on lots of things, justice scalia answered, i attack ideas, i don't attack people. some very good people have some very bad ideas. [laughter] and if you can't separate the two, you've got to get another day job. you don't want to be a judge, at least not a judge on a multimember panel. well-known illustration, justice scalia was very fond of justice brenen, as justice brennan was of justice scalia. i will miss the challenges and the laughter he provoked, his pungent, eminently quotable opinions so clearly stated that his

best options are bernie sanders and joe biden, and they're going to both be almost as old as ruth bader ginsburgis weekend at bernie's. [laughter] meghan: no, it's like an exercise in futility that democrats can't come up with anything else. as a republican, i love it. keep running her. run all day long. run chelsea as well, see how much america loves the clintons. >> i think you should applaud her right now, because for the first time -- kennedy: because she's hiking so much in rhode island? meghan: she's taking weird selfies in the woods -- gillian: maybe she just wants to disprove donald trump's claim that she has no stamina. >> that would do it. i think the real thing that's going on here is that the clintons are desperately trying to make people think they might still be in the white house someday, because their donation at the foundation are going to dry up, and the whole operation is over if there isn't the sort of promise that one of them's going to be in the white house again. so unless it's chelsea, i guess they have to put somebody out there. harris: i just feel bad for the people in