finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of books and these becomes have been shown and transcribed and read throughout the world. so we're going to start now with a clip, a video clip and then we're going to go to the panel. >> i think it is our national novel. if there was a national novel of week, this would be it for the united states. i think it's the favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> the first time in my life that the book had sort of captured me. that was exciting. i didn't realize that literature could do that. >> i remember reading a copy of my aunt's in jamaica queens. it was the first book ever written by a white writer that discussed racism in ways that was complicate and sophisticated. -- complicated and sophisticated. >> a touchstone in american literary and social history. it's a stor

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tonight, nbc bay area's ida siegel takes us in depth. >> you can have only two. and no more chocolate later. >> reporter: two little brownies gives 6-year-old jarron a lot of joy. >> i'm ok with them having a little snack that makes them happy. >> reporter: his mother knows that the brownies and all of the other good sugary stuff isn't exactly good for you. but it never occurred to her it could be toxic. yeah. that's what renowned professor dr. robert lust igsays. sugar is not only bad for you, it's toxic. he calls it a poison. >> i'm here to tell you that it goes way beyond empty calories. the reason why this is a problem is because fructose is a poison. it's not about the calories. it has nothing do with the calories. it's a poison by itself. >> reporter: his lecture, called sugar, the bitter truth, has gotten well over 1 million hits on youtube, and has caused a stir in scientific communities. he says it's not just that sugar will make you fat, which he says it will. but it's that sugar is metabolized in such a way that over time, it will make you sick. and wh

because at around the same time this nuclear radiation is spilling out over the desert, bugsy siegel's why vegas is the way it is. >> jon: what happens in vegas stays in vegas, especially the radiation. [laughter] >> and what happens at area 51 has stayed at area 51 until my book. >> jon: but how did you know what happened at area 51? >> well, i interviewed 74 men with direct access to the base, 32 of whom lived and worked there for extended periods of time. so i got the kind of scoop of what really was going on there starting in '51. >> jon: here's the craziest part about your book. you do all this research. you debunk the idea that it's aliens. >> based on a source, yes. >> jon: based on a source. but what is in the book is actually almost more disturbing than the idea that there was an alien visitation in roswell. president clinton had to petition them to inform him when he was president what happens there. >> yes, president clinton investigated the crimes of the atomic energy commission, who is in charge of part of the base out there, and they denied some information to him based

siegel thank you very much. gregg?regg: breaking news out of iowa today as a bus rolls over injurying more than three dozen we're going to get an update from the hospital and who was on board that bus coming up next. stick around. >> coming up today on "america live", is sarah palin getting in the race. michelle malkin's take on the bus tour and on the midnight ride. and a new poll says americans are angry about everything. doug schoen's compelling look what has so many of us hot under the collar these days. and can a new pipeline extension make gas prices head south? why some are saying that the president will say no. all that coming up at the top of the hour. jenna: fox news alert. we've been keeping up to date on this bus rollover in iowa that has sent more than three dozen people to the hospital. joining us on the phone kptm fox affiliate reporter, clark young. clark, we heard a variety of reports. the wires are saying this is a high school band was in the bus. one of our viewers said it could be a nonprofit organi

it describes one of the characters, joel siegel, the movie critic.nd it says in the program in the theater program that he lost his battle to cancer. a phrase you often see in obituaries. but it occurs you don't really lose, do you? if you do face those moments if they are held deep in your heart and remembered in the heart of others, you don't lose. >> or i suppose what we wish for is that those very moments of loss, any kind of loss are the moment when we can find meaning. and i suppose that's part of our human predicament is to find meaning. it's even in loss that we can find that something else, meaning. >> anna deavere smith. thanks for being with us. thank you for your work. >> thank you. thank you for this work. >> let me down easy runs through july 10th at berkeley rep. >>> well, my thanks to you for joining us here tonight for this discussion. and we invite you to visit us at kqed.org/thisweek for past episodes to subscribe to our newsletter and podcast and to share your thoughts about the program. i'm belva davis. program. i'm belva davis.

have to talk about all of the eurozone for two reasons one because it's very difficult to take it siegel decision in the euro zone or one country without referring to the other country and especially in the case of greece which is now run by you sort of troy because we see because you have the central european central bank together with the european. commissioners and the americans looking at what's happening in greece to no single country would take such a decision to do it all with china that's one obstacle for trying our you know to strike is the deal and the other reason is of course that these as much downside for trade are there is an upside to remember the. eight china was always very prompt in the first stage at investing directly into this to see defend it'll sector but they did it probably too quickly so this is a really really really was very much for being with you i frayed we've run out of time thanks for being with us from your account by. israel's there's an international aid flotilla headed to gaza is carrying chemical weapons which could be used. the israeli defense forc

neil siegel is also joining us, a professor of law and political science at duke law school. he is a member of our family because he served at one time as a law clerk to judge wilkinson before he went on to clerk for justice ginsberg at the supreme court. finally, we have adrian vermeel from harvard, who clerked for the d.c. circuit and for justice scalia on the u.s. supreme court. all of us on the panel want to thank the fourth circuit for its hospitality. the chief judge, judges, and staff could not have been more hospitable are gracious. we are grateful to you. let me take a few minutes as we begin our discussion this morning to try to set the context of the roberts court. it has now completed -- it is completing this weekend its sixth year. it is interesting. i was thinking about the time that passed from the year that earl warren in 1953 became chief justice and the time nine years later when the warren court relief finally came of age, i think when felix frankfurter left the court and arthur goldberg took his place. it was in the early to mid '60's that the warren court

neil siegel, professor of law and political science at duke university law school. he is a member of our family, in a way, because he served as a law clerk to judge wilkinson before he went on to clerk for justice ginsburg. finally, we have adrian verm eule from harvard who is also a former law clerk who clerked in the d.c. circuit and for justice scalia. we want to think the fourth circuit for their hospitality. you could not have been more hospitable or gracious. we are grateful to you. let me take a few minutes, as we begin our discussion, to try and set the context of the roberts court. it has now completing, as of this weekend, its sixth year. i was the key about the time that past from the year that girl born in 1953 became chief justice -- earl warren in 1953 and wehehen the court came of ae 9 years later. it was in the mid 1960's that they handed down their major decisions coming gideon, miranda, then is like that. about the same period of time passed between the time when rehnquist became chief justice in 1986 and the time in which the rehnquist court came

. >> neil siegel? >> this is a question for michael. you described quite well that a legislative vote is not speech. the court goes on to say that the legislature at issue does not have a right to vote, then it is permissible to ban the legislature from participating in the legislative session. now, certainly, speech during a session is speech, and it is not a vote. i guess, my question is, maybe that is right, i do not know who else is given the right to vote, but it did seem like the court rather quickly and seamlessly move from that conclusion to the next, and i am wondering if it is a lot more complex than the court made it out to be. >> i agree, that it is just one short paragraph that addresses the advocacy of the refusal will carry -- refusal rule. i was not satisfied with the logic of this, that there are people who have the right to advocate on the floor without voting. for example, representatives of territories do not actually vote in congress, but they do have the ability to speak, and there also are numerous other arrangeme