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circuit and also for the honorable william brennan, then-justice of the united states supreme court.ur second speaker will be mike carvin. mike also has extensive appellate experience. he served in the department of justice and handled a number of cases there and now is in private practice again heading up supreme court advocacy there. he was one of the lead lawyers in the famous case of bush against gore and argued in that case. he has been involved in a number of other major cases, and we're pleased to have him with us this morning. and our third speaker is professor richard epstein. he is a distinguished professor both at the university of chicago law school and also at new york university. he is also, started his career really in california at the university of southern california where he started teaching and is also a fellow, a colleague of mine at the hoover institution at stanford university. he is an extensive writer on legal subjects having published many books and even many more articles of various sorts and specializes in teaching in a variety of legal subjects including

and we are honored to host our panelists, colonel john view brennan, the nixons marine corps aid, william r.kotus, the assistant chief of protocol for visits during the nixon years, and general don hughes, military assistant to president nixon, bob, curator of the centennial exhibit at the nixon library. and i encourage you if you have not been to yorba linda recently, please visit this exhibit. it's exthe records in their. and a special welcome to julie nixon eisenhower. julie serves as a member of the board of the nixon foundation. pat nixon was liked by a broad spectrum of people at home and abroad, regardless of their political means. she had a talent for connecting with people and putting them at ease. tonight we look forward to learning more about her and her national travels and valued role as a goodwill ambassador. no other first lady had traveled so much until pat nixon set out into the world. she traveled to over 75 countries, most famously china and russia with the president, but also on her own to liberia, ghana, event someday louisiana, southeast asia and more. in 1970 her im

brennan. pete williams reports the fbi is working with local police there and says so far at this early pointthere's no nexus to terrorism. so, you have a 24-year-old white male in custody as you said hh he was arrested without incident but not before killing 15 people at this moment and we have at least 50, 5-0, others transported to other hospitals, some in critical condition. one as young as 6 years old. mika? >> willie, thank you. we'll be following this breaking story throughout the morning. stay with us for that. also joining us in washington, we have eugene robinson and chuck todd and former white house director of domestic policy, melody barnes coming up. much more "morning joe" when we come back. [ cellphone rings ] the wife. hey, babe. got the jetta. i wiped the floor with the guy! not really. i would've been fine with 0% for 36 months, but i demanded 60. no...i didn't do that. it was like taking candy from a baby. you're a grown man. alright, see you at home. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. we good? we're good. [ male announcer ] at 0% apr for 60 months, n

brennan and audry thomason. director of national intelligence james clapper. william daley, former white house chief of staff. smith sent the letter after they were urged on in a hearing wednesday. >> we have our own investigative capacity. so why don't, why don't we inquire ourselves? we also have the regular power of subpoena. >> conyer suggested he would provide his own list of names but today he went the opposite direction. expressing concern in a letter to mr. smith that republicans were making unfounded assertions about who might have leaked. conyers' turn-around came after nancy pelosi argued that congress should defer to investigation ordered by eric holder one run by the f.b.i. and directed by two u.s. attorneys. >> i believe right now the administration has put in place a look at how these things occurred. >> she acknowledged that congress has right to investigation since she launched in while in the majority but said the administration own investigation should come first. >> bret: jim, isn't it odd that the former speaker, now minority leader is asking congress to hold off? >> for a congresserrial