specht spoke to. i wanted to open our discussion from my part of the table discussing president eisenhower's judicial appointments partly because of what the judiciary has meant to me as a lawyer and a member of the marshall family and also because they are just remarkably moving stories of courage and dedication. to me for the question marks that some have raised about president eisenhower's contribution on civil rights, the answers are quite clear looking at those judicial appointments. they're also quite clear and positive when you look at his appointments generally and dr. specht alluded to that. if you didn't know during the campaign of 1952 where president eisenhower's heart and plans were, you didn't have to spend too much time during his inauguration to get the clue. it was marion anderson who a few years before had made civil rights history in america just two miles away singing at the lincoln memorial sing at president eisenhower's invitation. that, to me, whenever i think about it is a powe

specht from that introduction. we have foe idea what those things cost. it's always good to hear them, right? it's always good being back. this is like a second home and i'm inspired every time i walk around the campus and to sit next to a gentleman like this and hear his words, well, that's just gold. my talk today is going to be an echo of how dr. specht started her talk because if you want, we'll talk about little rock, right? the first thing you've got to do is you've got to get right with ike, and getting right with ike is hard to do. maybe the real ike never stands out. i don't know. so what we're going to try to do here today is we're going try to get right with ike. it was the crisis itself. now i said we that this is not a spectator event, right? i want you to think through this with me. i don't have all the answers, trust me, right? but think through this with me and you, i would hope, would also try to do an assessment as we go through it based on the things mr. marshall said and the things i'm going to tell you and you try to get right with ik

obama claimed that his reform program aspired to deploy a more specht active national government in the service of fair play that is neither social list nor catholic, that is neither democratic nor republican, that serves neither the tea party nor occupy wall street. that serve, he summed up, the progressive principles that were now interwoven through the fabric of life. that's all good enough, but i'm not sure obama's aspirations live up to that billing. they seemed sort of cheap. they call for the extension in the sort tax and more generally in the tax code. these are important measures, to be sure, but he did not offer a strategic vision for a new political order, as pr did. nor did he explain how the landmark health care and financial reform legislation enacted in 2010, real important pieces of legislation, were the building blocks of a new foundation. the new foundation was a term tried out early in the presidency, but he did not revisit it, strangely. it is i and one of my more sober colleagues astonishing but perhaps telling that the president did not even mention health care ref

the think tank michael singh was more circle couple specht. there is no one solution.ed overall strategy possibly arming the opposition. as well as thinking about how to bring down president assad, quote, we have to think about what will come after assad and how we can help to shape it. they all agree on, shep, is that there are no easy answers. >> shepard: a look to the history books on arming oppositions might be a worthwhile activity at the moment. jonathan, thanks so much. more than 160 prisoners once locked up at guantanamo bay have turned back to terror. that's according to a report from house republicans slamming the release of hundreds of detainees. it blames both the bush administration and the obama administration for bowing to, quote: domestic political pressures and a desire to earn goodwill abroad by sending detainees elsewhere. in this report, it indicates 27% of the 600 detainees the government has transferred out of gitmo are either confirmed or suspected to be involved in terrorist activities. the democrats call those statistics republic fear mongering

old boss henry kissinger last week, an said the problem with the iranian issue is every other os spechtaffairs is involved, whether it's the european financial crisis, the world oil market, argentina with the iranian connection there. the russians and the chinese, the israelis, and the entire middle east. israel has to make a calculation, will this cold war, covert war turn into a who the war? israel has tough decisions to make. the administration has gone to them and said, let sanctions have a little more time to see if they'll work. that's why you've seen in the last three or four days talk about financial sanction toss cut iran out of the system. the iranians are moving all their nuclear weapons underground. israel will have a hard time with any type of preemptive attack. martha: god knows how far down there they are, and this real thick steel door that blocks everything off. the israelis think there is a short wind tow of time to cut this off before it's too late. >> leon panetta in a yore or sooner. and then they will have a nuclear weapon cap alof hitting the united states. that's