sandra day o'connor has one of the best statement. in every society, there have to be a safe place. in a democracy, that is a place that is the courts. we have to have the average citizen talking about how they want to preserve that save space in our society and talk to their legislatures, because there is a view among legislators, not all of them, but many, that the courts are another agency. it is not another agency. it is a co-equal branch of government but is necessary to protect our fundamental liberty, and to be such a branch, it needs adequate funding. when they say we have an economic crisis, we do have an economic crisis. there is no question about that. don't put the courts as another library for another road. it is not. it is the basis why we today enjoy our freedom. we have got to make that clearly understood. every time you talked legislator, every time you have an opportunity to talk to a civic group, you need to make that distinction. >> thank you. the next question from the audience, if you could choose only one reform of the american justice system, what would it be

today yes and that pay for the construction we can take sandra day o'connor for that because when the eminent domain law was written she wrote the decision and in the decisions about how the government could seize the land if it's for a public use like and she lists like three things in the last thing she says is we're a sports stadium it's the last thing she lit and that has been the very slender legal reasoning like it's i believe the three things she lists are like a hospital a school or a sports stadium and so it says sensual public functions exactly exactly and who knows how conscious she was of what she was unleashing but she really did unleash something i'd love to give another example then i go for this is the one that says so much dick the vos multi-billionaire owner of the orlando magic has taken one point five billion dollars in state subsidies from the state of florida to build the new audrina for the orlando magic this is the family that basically owns republican politics and i was born and grew ok so you know well what's his name from blackwater there you go you know if

falwell made a statement that any loyal american should oppose the appointment of sandra day o'connor. barry goldwater said any loyal american should kick jerry falwell's ass. he is also a cranky guy. as he got older, he got cranked year. -- crankier. if he was angry at something you said or did, he would take his cane and physically let you know his displeasure. we say we want authentic people representing as. he was authentic. >> these programs are 14 in number. there every friday night at 8:00 and 11:00 east coast time, 5:00 and 8:00 on the west coast. we are going down the list of all 14. they are people who ran for the presidency and lost. the next one is on november 4th, adelaide stevenson, which is your specialty. how often did he run? who did he run against? how badly was he beaten? >> he ran twice, 1952 and 1956. he had the misfortune of running against a great military hero, dwight eisenhower. i do not really think that there is any way that adelaide stevenson could have won those elections. americans like military heroes. there are few generals that ran the did not win. eis

falwell made a statement that any loyal american should oppose the appointment of sandra day o'connor. barry goldwater said any loyal american should kick jerry falwell's ass. he is also a cranky guy. as he got older, he got crankier. if he was angry at something you said or did, he would take his cane and physically let you know his displeasure. we say we want authentic people representing as. representing as. he was authentic. >> these programs are 14 in number. there every friday night at 8:00 and 11:00 east coast time, 5:00 and 8:00 on the west coast. we are going down the list of all 14. they are people who ran for the presidency and lost. the next one is on november 4th, adelaide stevenson, which is your specialty. how often did he run? who did he run against? how badly was he beaten? >> he ran twice, 1952 and 1956. he had the misfortune of running against a great military hero, dwight eisenhower. i do not really think that there is any way that adelaide stevenson could have won those elections. americans like military heroes. there are few generals that ran the did not win. eis

gates is a 1965 graduate of the school and will succeed former supreme court justice sandra day o'connoror there. it is not his first time in academia. he was president of texas a&m before george w. bush selected him to be his secretary of defense. >>> just in to cnn, it's confirmed. eddie murphy will host next year's oscars. this is the first time he has hosted the ceremony. murphy, of course, known for his comedy. saturday night live. beverly hills cop. nutty professor, franchises, he was the donkey in shah rec. he can sing and dance. the academy awards scheduled for february. >>> and now, a quick check on some of the numbers here as we're about 45 minutes away from the closing bell on wall street. huber watching the time hour of trading. corrine a, not much positive news. what's going on? >> it's the same story, the economy. today is the focus is more about europe. there's fear that the problems in greece are continuing to deteriorate and spreading to countries like italy. also, we've got fears about the u.s. economy. growth here slowing to a crawl. this is not new news. this has been

supreme court justice sandra day o'connor in one of her last supreme court opinions wrote in 2005 that, quote, in 2003 over 56,000 noncitizens were held in state prisons. noncitizens accounted for over 10% of the prison populations in california, new york and arizona. as of february, 2005, 119 noncitizens from 31 nations were on state death rows. madam speaker, so that i am clear, let me emphasize that death row is not just for any kind of murderer. death row is for murderers where victims are tortured or raped before killed, death row is for murders where multiple citizens are killed, in some death row is reserved for only the most heinous of murderers. hundreds if not thousands of americans are dead today because the united states government has been derelict in its duty to protect american citizens from illegal aliens. for example, in my home of madison county, alabama, population roughly 300,000 people, we have had more american citizens killed or murdered by illegal aliens than we have had lost in combat in iraq and afghanistan combined. madam speaker, let me share with you a pers

,, particularly focusing on his own state's misery, but also flying around the country with sandra day o'connor and others really trying to explain what is going on in the 40 states that elect judges and allowing those campaigns contributions to come from people who have interests before those judges. landon rowland has been a poster boy for our work on judicial selection reform crown the country. as i said before, when we decided to respond to citizens united by combining our work in campaign finance reform and judicial reform, it made natural ed and landon to bring these two schemes worked. -- two streams of work. in october in new york we will present both of them with the ced trust budish aboard. it is well earned and well deserved, gentlemen. please join me in welcoming ed kangas and landon rowland. >> delaware i tried again? is it on now? by told a story about my aunt viola. when i was 14 i was in ohio near lake erie. my cousin bill and i got arrested flushing cherry bombs down the toilet at the swimming pool. my aunt viola had to come down and his father was the fire chief. she looked at

. >> the power that sandra day o'connor has had for years and years. >> tina brown, thank you so muchhank you as well. >> thank you, andrea. >> franco harris today. >> we've got education nation. >> you've got it all. >> huge. >> andrea, we'll see you then. coming up next former utah governor and presidential candidate jon huntsman next on "morning joe." ♪ [ jim ] i need to push out a software upgrade. build a new app for the sales team in beijing. and convince the c.e.o. his email will find him... wherever he is. i need to see my family while they're still awake. [ male announcer ] with global services from dell, jim can address his company's i.t. needs through custom built applications, cloud solutions and ongoing support in over 100 countries. so his company sees results. and jim sees his family. dell. the power to do more. ♪ sun in the sky ♪ you know how i feel ♪ freedom is mine ♪ and i know how i feel ♪ and this whole world is a new world ♪ ♪ and a bold world ♪ and i'm feeling good more people choose weight watchers than any other weight loss plan in the world. because it works.