that is just as david souter. -- justice david souter. [applause] >> thank you very much, senator ayotte for a generous introduction. thank you senator shaheen for seeing to it that we have the residents in warren's own life to get together this afternoon. we are grateful to you. in thinking about what warren would say about this gathering to pay tribute to him if he were here, i keep thinking that despite being called a master of ceremonies, if i could ask warren what my role here is this afternoon, he would probably look at the number of senators and former senator's hair on the platform with me -- here. he golden gloves d boxer in him would call me the referee. i am honored to be with margaret rudmann and members of the family and all of you in spending some time thinking about and remembering the friend whom we will miss for the rest of our lives. i can tell you this -- as long as memory does serve as, we will not be able to think of warren rudman for very long -- for what he was or what he accomplished at the senate or outside the se

i mean bullets came from everywhere souter's like we were in a hail storm there were coming through my doors and he might tanker it in the windshield or pull into it in the. you could hear it coming through one door hit the other door with a large tree and on a dare just come in everywhere and that it just it reached a crescendo it just seemed like it never stopped after that. they're going to hear the man. crying on the radio yelling for help burning down burning help me help me please don't let me die interact friends that i had promised before that. you know if they broke down or something happened i wouldn't leave from here and scream and. head to head help me help me please i don't want to die here i was completely saturated with blood on my parents or soaked with blood my sure you said from derek there was just absolutely just sheer terror. just absolutely positively horrifying. i still feel i just still have that chafey sort of thing in me that's like said here right now it's like i'm i'm still here.

not sat on the president's and we have a we have another one says let me go over we're here because souter only went to a las vegas fund raiser while people were dying in all of it that you want to talk about kerry because this is a failed was certainly a fundraiser first of all and second was a campaign event and secondly of that sixteen trillion dollars of debt which was run up we were going to be years ago i was going to not talk about me versus president obama and the choice that americans have to make next tuesday and you are sitting here trying to portray mitt romney as a like you know a liar liar pos liar however even if you talking to congress that is going to talk about a one term study why they're both lawyers so vulgar johnson here to talk about the lying ads when even president obama has said that his his that he's lied in this ad to his ads have went way over the top a lot of times and so i wouldn't say that you know all politicians are a liar don't trust either of them but what i am saying is that you know if you're reading the site you can romney speaking of false as your he

the fact that the republican right wing was not happy with sandra day o'connor or david souter or harry blackmon when they became supreme court justice does not mean they did not get nominated and confirmed. host: back to the foams -- phones. scott is on our line for republicans. you are on the line with ira shapiro, author of the last great senate. caller: i give you credit for saying you are a democratic sympathizers. at the beginning of the program, you did not acknowledge that. it could also tell by the tell of -- title of your book. the last great senate in 1980 when the republicans took over the senate. you mentioned that there has been obstructionism in the u.s. senate. you seem to forget that in the first two years of the obama administration, the democrats had 60 votes. they could do anything they wanted, anything. how do you reconcile your statement with the numbers in the senate? i will take your answer of the air. thank you. guest: that is a good question and i reconcile it this way. the senate has never worked on a party-line basis. the senate has been the place where the d

. >> rose: justice souter who used to sit with you, do you remember him? >> oh, very fondly.iss him. >> rose: really? >> he sat next to me the whole time of his tenure here. >> you are fond of the people who appointed him as you know. >> this isçó unusual. there are so many justices who were -- >> rose: you didn't surprise ronald reagan. >> probably not,. >> rose: confirmed by 100 votes -- >> 98. >> rose: 98. >> barry goldwater and -- were not present. >> rose: we know where barry goldwater -- both of them would have been with you. >> probably. >> yes of course they would. >> but that was, what, bb, before bjorn borg. >> borg. >> rose: do you think we will get back to before borg and do you be known that with great bain? >> we won't get back to that -- we will get back to that if and when the supreme court gets off the evolving constitution notion. look, the supreme court gets off the rolling constitution notion -- i mean i hear you saying the problem with the supreme court is that the living document has force and has legs and people believe in it, that's the problem with th