we had a case there where that decision really was decided, as linda pointed out, as so many are, by anthony kennedy. so when john roberts talks about consensus and unanimity, one way of thinking about that, i think, is a way of minimizing the influence of anthony kennedy, and that is in everyone's interests. as linda pointed out, liberals, really, on the court, again, using judicial liberals have no more interest in arguing over justice kennedy like the the human jump ball than the conservatives do because they're going to lose. i mean, already he's been with them five times, he's been with conservatives 11. he doesn't always make the conservatives happy but he's going to go with the conservatives more often than not. so if you're the chief justice, you could say let's decide a case more narrowly. let's decide a discrimination case more narrowly. that's a way that we can speak with one voice without letting justice kennedy decide all these big issues, without us fighting over the vote of anthony kennedy. and they may well be doing that, of course, in ricci. but i think this case, it was a p

consensus and unanimousness, one way of thinking about that is a way of minimizing the influence of anthony kennedy, and that is in everyone's interest. as linda pointed out, liberals really on the court, and again using judicial liberals, judicial conservatives have no more interest in arguing over justice kennedy, like the human jump ball than the conservatives do because they're going to look. he has been with them five times and conservatives 11. he doesn't always make the conservatives happy but he will go with the conservatives more often than not, so if you're the chief justice, you could say let's decide a case more narrowly. let's decide a race case, a discrimination case more narrowly. that's a way that we can speak with one voice, without letting justice kennedy decide all these big issues, without us fighting over the vote of anthony kennedy, and they may well be dock that, of course, in richie, but i think this case, i thought was a remarkable opinion for a chief justice to written and who joined this court with the goal of trying to find a more unified voice. >> do you think t

we had a case there where that decision really was decided by anthony kennedy. when john roberts talks about consensus and unanimity, one way of speaking about that is minimizing the influence of anthony kennedy. ests. as linda pointed out, liberals, really, on the court, again, using judicial liberals have no more interest in arguing over justice kennedy like the the human jump ball than the conservatives do because they're going to lose. i mean, already he's been with them five times, he's been with conservatives 11. he doesn't always make the conservatives happy but he's going to go with the conservatives more often than not. so if you're the chief justice, you could say let's decide a case more narrowly. let's decide a discrimination case more narrowly. that's a way that we can speak with one voice without letting justice kennedy decide all these big issues, without us fighting over the vote of anthony kennedy. and they may well be doing that, of course, in ricci. but i think this case, it was a pretty remarkable opinion for a chief justice to have written a

host: anthony, what would you do if prohibition came about? when you find ways to get tobacco on the black market? caller: i have a tobacco farm. so i'm going to get tobacco. people are going to smoke, regardless. you know, there are things in our society, in our country altogether. it just go ahead and get rid of all the harmful things in the country, then. host: last night on the senate floor, dick durbin spoke right before the tobacco bill passed. >> in just a few minutes the senate will make an historic decision, and i think they will make the right decision. joe camel will be given a life sentence and put away forever. we are going to give our kids, our families across america, a fighting chance for life. this bill is a story, and thank you for making it possible. host: president obama is himself a smoker. he has acknowledged his trouble including the habit, and he says he will sign this if it passes the house, which is expected to. dennis is calling from long beach, california. caller: they should regulate tobacco, and also i think they

majority, but we had a case hair or that decision was decided as linda pointed out and seminar with anthony kennedy. so when john roberts talks about consensus and unanimity one way of speaking about that i think is a way of minimizing the influence of anthony kennedy. and that is in everyone's interest. as linda pointed out, liberals really on the court and again using judicial conservatives have no more interest in arguing over justice kennedy like the human shambala and the conservatives do because there are going to lose pierre already they have been with conservatives 11 and liberals five times, does annoys me the conservatives happy but will go with them more often than not. so if you are the chief

it is a story written by men like anthony, an army ranger who saw half the men on his landing craft drown when it was hit by fire just 1,000 yards of this speech. he spent three hours in freezing water and was one of only 90 rangers to survive out of the 225 who were sent to scale the cliffs. as the story written by summoning no longer with us, by carlton baret. he was only supposed to serve for a guide for the first infantry decision, but became one of its heroes. after wading ashore in deep water, he returned to the water again and again to save his drowning, rents. under the heaviest possible enemy fire, he carried them to safety. he carried them in his own arms. this is the story of the allied victory. it is the legend of units like easy company and the all american 82nd. it is the tale of the british people whose courage during the blitz forced hitler to call off the invasion of england, the canadians who came even though they were never attacked, the russians to sustain some of the worst casualties on the eastern front. and all those french men and women who would have rather died r

. >> reporter: the invest picked up right handed pitcher anthony morris in the 4th round. he was the big 12 pitcher of the year to be a finalist for the golden spicas ward. justin was also drafted from his team. they picked up a couple of high school picks. michael taylor a short stop from westminster academy in florida. >> johnny: westminster, isn't that where a rod went to school? >> rob: i know about the westminster dog show. yeah, i think that's why a rod went to school. >> johnny: time running out for washington tonight. trailing 2-0. 43 game on base streak tonight. breaking ball low. 1-2. nationals pitcher martis and hanrahan allowing only three hits to cincinnati. one swing by bruce in the 2nd, the difference in this ballgame. the reds are about to look at their 31st win of the season, 17th of the year. that's one more shot coming up. zimmermann hanging tough 2-2 to the 3rd baseman from the nationals. 2-4 last night, tonight 0-2 with a walk. the out field playing straight away for ryan. ryan with a 2-2. zimmermann gets on the base hit. >> rob: he's been going to rig

justice kenneth -- anthony kennedy wrote the majority opinion. briar, stephens, and ginsburg and suter wrote the dissent. ginsburg said the city had adequate basis to fear would have been successfully sued by the black firefighters. she had somewhat different standards for an employer to me. she said that the majority's strong bases in evidence test went too far. she said the city had ample evidence that its test might be flawed. her reasoning was a little different from that of judge sotomayor in the lower court. the appeals court focused on the city's intent that it did not intend to -- it was intending to avoid being susceptible to a lawsuit. she said what the city needs to do is focus on the evidence about whether it could be sued successfully. the bottom line was basically the same, she said. the city's actions were justified. >> this case was watched because of justice sotomayor. what does this mean if anything for her nomination? >> you will hear discussions of the issues. if this was of 5-4 decision where sotomayor was on the wing of the

.  >> bob: minnesota got a s- out from anthony schwarz ack to beat the cubs at wrigley today. st. louis won in cleveland, 3- 1. mets beat the yankees 6-2. those are the finals in so far from interleague play. the american league who let the national league, 31 wins to 25 through last night.  >> bob: last night star stretch of 12 very difficult interleague games against the upper echelon of the a.l. east. tampa bay, new york, toronto and boston. then a series to follow at baltimore. that ball into left. dukes is back. can't get it up against the wall. hernandez scores. upton scores. it's 8-2. >> rob: this is just a hanging breaking ball by colome. when you drop down to try to help the ball, sometimes it flattens out. it helps longoria, doesn't get all of it. great effort by elijah dukes and b.j. upton breaking it down there at the end. that is one of the fastest humans i've ever seen. >> bob: elijah dukes did not get all the way back to the wall when he jumped. i would say the nationals does not have an outfielder that goes back on balls as well. the

next, commencement addresses by anthony kennedy, elana kagan, and leah ward sears. this is at stanford university last sunday. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. president, my fellow students, citizens of the world that my seat to come ever closer to the idea and reality of a rule of law, and especially graduates in the graduating class of 2009. thank you very much for inviting me to participate in your commencement. i suppose there are a number of witnesses where i have become a willing accomplice. each of you has your own story, a unique story of your years at stanford. that story is bound up with your pants, your family is, at your loved ones who have sustained you hear. you have already thanked them on a platform, and the entire nation thanks them, again, for sending you here to one of the great universities. thank you very much. [applause] your story has already been bound up with the idea of freedom, and freedom must always be a part of your story as you shape your careers and plan your destiny. from the beginning of the republic, we have understood

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today on "america and the courts" commencement addresses given the sheer by the supreme court justice anthony kennedy. that is 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> tomorrow on "washington journal", and look on iran. former congressman tom davis talks about health care and republican politics. later, a look at the cover story @

>> anthony kennedy wrote the majority opinion. he was joined by justices scalia, thomas, of lido, and chief justice roberts. -- alito, and chief justice roberts. the morgue liberal judges were in the dissent. justice ginsburg wrote the dissent. she you read a summary from the bench. she said that the city had adequate basis to fear that it would have been successfully sued by the black firefighters. she had somewhat of a different standard for the employer to meet. she said that the majority's strong basis in evidence test went too far. she said that the city had ample evidence that its test might be flawed. her reasoning was a little bit different from soda meyer and the other courts. her and the district -- sotomayor and the other courts. they were intending to avoid being susceptible to a lawsuit. she said that instead what the city needs to do is focus on the evidence about whether it could be sued successfully. she said that the city's actions were justified. >> of this was watched because of the role of sotomayor in deciding

then on america and the courts, supreme court justice anthony kennedy delivers the commencement address at stanford university. this week on c. spence "newsmakers," california congressman pete sparked discuss this legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you cannot do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private plans. so yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote for it? i don't know who wants to go home in next year's primary and say i voted against the plan that is going to provide 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, ports, working, do not have a way now to get insurance. i vote against giving them away to pay their doctor and hospital bills. i don't think that is a vote many people want to make. that is tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. >>

anthony morse 6'2", 200 pounds. michael taylor is a good, young short stop that has an exceptional hand. all the way down the list, waver, jordan, apple bee, carnes. carnes is a guy from texas tech that throws the ball at 95 miles per hour. he's had some arm trouble. they're talking about him having a tremendous a. they're hoping he is over the arm trouble. >>> one of my favorite players growing up and one of your teammates from the astros. >> one of the best young talents unfortunately got hit in the face. he's a short stop. he's a high school player out of puerto rico. i don't know if he'll be signable. he's also like drew. he wants his family to play baseball. he was always the guy that was all business. it wasn't about the money. it was about the joy of playing the game. you look at the two guys that made the day to start off the draft. these were the crown jewels. >> strasbourg, we've said a lot about him. i don't know if we said enough. i found out through two scouts today that he is the best prospect either o

anthony romero, executive director, has written quote back when it comes to key national security policy the obama administration is continuing along the path paved by the previous administration. the new administration has embraced or only superficially modified several policies held over from the bush era including the use of the state secrets plane that the justice department invoked to throw out the suit. this is not change, this is more of the same. mr. chairman, i am thankful that mr. obama has had some epiphanies lately. i hope that he accelerates them because national-security, the economic future and constitutional future is at stake. with that said, i am going to give mr. grossman an opportunity, they said this is not change, this is more of the same. will give you a chance to agree or disagree. >> i agree entirely and it is quite heartening. demonstrates that this is not a partisan matter. it is not a political matter. is about the safety of our nation, the tween presidential administrations, there has been no disagreement. >> i know i took the opportunity to express' some fee

host: anthony on the republican line. caller: have squared is --- 0 is she doing? host: we're going to leave it at that and ask questions to our guests. caller: jane hamsher, how are you doing? who is going to have the problems with the republicans not voting for this or the democrats voting for the imf or not voting for the mf? -- imf? i thought my party was strong on war spending. i am a moderate now. i was born in 1942. i have voted for republicans in all of my years, except in 2008 i voted for president obama. there is no war going on in afghanistan very seriously. -- there is a war going on in afghanistan very seriously. we have to look at this in a positive way as an attack on our soil. that is where i am confused. who is going to win this progressive corp., if that is what you want to call it, democrats or republicans? -- who is going to win this progressive war? guest: progresses will tell you that they do not like the money being held hostage. when supplemental passed the house the first time, it passed with only 60 votes boating -- voting nay. it is the i

, a few commencement addresses at this year's graduation ceremonies given by supreme court justice, anthony kennedy. and georgia supreme court justice -- that is on 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think as the conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to absorb dar went and who understood biology and birds migratory patterns. -- to understand darwin and biology. and he actually did something. >> the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on wilbert s. warriors. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- span, for download the c-span podcast. >> senate judiciary committee chairman, patrick leahy on supreme court nominee, judge sonia sotomayor. her confirmation hearing will begin july 13. this is about 35 minutes. let's hear at the university of the district of columbia. i am also a privilege to serve as the president of the leadership conference on civil rights.

supposed to be brief because -- no, because i would like to have a dialog, and a conversation with anthony and maybe hopefully with you but maybe we will not have the time, but anyway, what i would like to say that -- >> religion. >> oh, religion. yesterday, and that's the danger of the media. how we are brainwashed in a subtle way and how we receive false information and false knowledge all the time. under knowledge. authority. and that's why we never have real knowledge. we receive false knowledge, fragment knowledge in the academia, in the media by people who have authority. and this delayed the revolution. we are supposed -- this about revolution evolution, i come to that. so yesterday in the "new york times," yesterday was saturday so i read a big part with a very famous authoritarian person speaking about religion and he said science has cold facts. there's no passion. there's no compassion in science. that's why people go back to religion. in fact, he doesn't know -- he doesn't know even political analysis because my political analysis or the political analysis of many people for th

. >> this week on america and the courts, supreme court justice anthony kennedy delivers the commencement address at stanford university. america and the courts, tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> july 4 weekend on book tv, discover an unfamiliar sight of our nation's first president, as we are all live from george washington's mount vernon estate with john ferling. join our conversation sunday, july 5, live on "in depth." >> staff members from the white house and various federal agencies discuss how legal change can be achieved in today's policy environment. >> good evening. i am the president and the center for american progress. on behalf of the american constitution society, i would like to welcome all of you to tonight's plenary panel which is entitled the levers of change, help progress is made in today's policy environment. i would also like to extend a special thanks to all of our panelists who have been generous enough to donate their vital time to participate in this discussion. we have several members of the administration up here, and given the pace of the new adminis

anthony, welcome. caller: washington by itself has the right perception in try to help with the tarp program as well as the stimulus package, however, it is the financial institution still holding the government hostage. they did not want to ease a credit either for a home purchase, small-business enterprises, as well as vehicle loans. until we get a marriage between these two government entities i do not see the economy doing anything new. even warren buffett indicated that usually after a situation like this in which the government has induced and infused the tarp program and helped the banking industry there is usually about. there is no bounds. the reason why is because the financial institutions are not cooperating. host: calif., next on the end up in a mine. go ahead. caller: yes, i am not very hopeful about the economy straightening out. i have been laid off for about six months and working extremely hard. i have had only two interviews. host: what kind of work? caller: i was a welder, a technic

later, supreme court justice anthony kennedy delivers the commencement address at stanford university. then, bill clinton and the steady hoyer honor retiring democratic leadership ceo al from. tomorrow on "washington journal." a look at iran and the health- care debate on capitol hill with tony blankley and jon- christopher bua. later, a look at the cover story, barack hoover obama, the best and brightest blow it again. this week on c-span's "newsmakers." pete stark, chairman of the house at ways subcommittee on health discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that will establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition, and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you can't do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private. yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will people vote for it? i don't know. who wants to go home and next year's primary and say, i voted against the plan that is going to provi

america and the courts, a few commencement addresses at this year's graduation ceremonies, given by anthony kennedy and the georgia supreme court justice. that is at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> tomorrow on "washington jounral, a look at iran and the debate. and tom davis talks about health care and republican politics. later, a look at the cover story in "harper's magazine," brock hoover obama, the best and brightest blow it again. -- barack hoover obama. >> people don't want to think that says as a policy as much of a passion. he put aside to under $40 million -- 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentalism, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day who absorbed darwin and understood biology and birds migratory patterns, and mating habits of deer and elk, and actually did something. >> sunday on "q&a, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c- span, or listen on xm satellite radio. >> the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on june 16 to discuss th

. >> the hearing will come to order anthony welcome everyone that has joined us today for what i think is a very important hearing and what is one of a series of hearings that will have happened or happening today and will continue to happen as we strive to get our nation's response in the very best possible shape that we can for hurricanes and of disasters and that is the subject of this hearing today. to see where we are and have the opportunity to have on our first panel the new fema administrator who will be testifying today for the first time since this confirmation, welcome mr. craig fugate, and frank grass from missouri will be testifying today as well. let me say that this hearing is focused on her cane response because we snap started hurricane season this week, but we will be a salmon issues that affect not just the hurricane region but all regions of the country in this hearing today and we will be focusing on plans and processes that actually have applicability across the board from many different types of threats the its hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.. the ranking member an

anthony and elizabeth cady stanton. if you go deeper than that you don't know anyone but it's like the founding fathers. we don't know the names of two of them, we know the names of many of them and the names of generals in the civil war. it's women's history hasn't gotten a fair shake it should have gotten and it's beginning to get -- it hasn't gotten the same kind of coverage. history has been written with the idea of laws in mind and borneman have a different story to tell so there are not very many women and that the original antebellum movement who are well-known besides the two mentioned. >> in your opinion of what clarita nichols think of women's rights today? >> good question. i would say she would think we have come a long way in certain areas. certainly educational and vocational the women have come a long way. they are involved in the professions and slightly involved in politics, although only 16% of the congress these female and she wouldn't like that. she would have think that would have gone a lot farther

anthony as other writers do. while sojourner's greatest personal triumph was probably winning the hearts of her own people, her activism was broader than that. and her sacred ethos had large, secular aims of human progress. religion without humanity, she said, is a poor human stuff. thank you. [applause] >> we are next going to hear from the two authors of "black maverick" the biography of trm howard and his fight for civil rights. and the first of those two authors professor linda beito. [applause] >> one benefit of the book is that it allows for those hard-working lovers of freedom to be known. dr. howard is an example of success in a time where few african-americans can make such a claim. he was by the 1950s a millionaire banker, on the board of tristate bank in memphis, a successful surgeon, a plantation owner, owning over 1,000 acres and a freedom fighter. he controlled and started successful boycotts. when he walked into a room everybody knew it. the wife of slain civil rights leader medgar evers one look

following that on "america and the courts," supreme court justice anthony kennedy delivers the commencement address at stanford university. >> every weekend, "book tv" has the latest nonfiction books and authors. on "afterwords," a

you have your all-star but now rafer also needs to help get you to this point along with anthony johnson, his backup. maybe a little bit better communication. like coach van givenedy said, maybe play him shorter spurts instead of 12 straight minutes. >> only one field goal made in game number one. they only took six shots. ism know he had a lot of shots because he got fouled a lot by the lakers. how do you keep them on the offensive end? >> i know everybody's been talking about dwight howard's offense. he needs to play better defense. he's the defensive player of the year. he didn't defend the paint well, didn't play the post-up well or the peacekeeper-and-roll. getting the ball early in transition. the players have to make what we call california as coaches on time, on target passes. when he's open, get him the ball on time. don't throw it at his ankles, don't throw it above his head. get it to him on time and on target. in the half court he has to do a better job, dwight howard, at attacking the double teams quicker. they're bringing double team sometimes from the talk, sometimes from

i went through a bout of reading about ancient rome, so i read anthony everett's two books, cicero and the gases. i custis. and julius caesar which was so good. a novel on julius caesar which is also a great read. and then i couldn't get enough of ancient rome so i read every novel in every short story steven sailer has done. he created this fictional character but the history behind it is all accurate. it's sort of an mystery of ancient rome during that time. so i've had a lot of fun reading about history and even going to fiction to further inform me about that great time period in terms of ancient rome. i think in this time of barack obama, one must read team of rivals which is a great story about abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals, but then had the intestinal fortitude to bring all those rivals into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair, not abraham lincoln. it's a great story and it really illuminates a lot on american history. another book i read in the last year or so, i've read a number of military hi

>> john from the national council -- [inaudible] thank you, john duke anthony, national council on u.s. eckert relations. to add to the further leverage of line of questioning and your response of ethnic divisions from mujahideen etc, where would you put the u.s. foundage broadcast into iran from the clinton administration to allegedly drive a wedge between the government and the populace on one hand and the los angeles based broadcast as well? could this in any way be a game breaker, game changer if the iranians said we want both of those stopped as well because we don't do that to you and we are trying to to discuss and of diplomatic debates on equal footing. >> you know i am not acquainted dodged the question by pleading ignorance, but i have to plead and gardens. i really don't know the outfits do. i don't know what our official broadcasts say whether they are news or politically oriented analyses or recommendations and i have no idea what the people in l.a. are doing. there is one simple point however, we cannot do anything that restricts our freedom of expression. and i am not qu

. >> i'm glad i don't know you, anthony... >> i have a brief statement to make, first of all, thank you for coming down and sharing your struggles with us, and allowing us to share in that, to share in that passage from being confined to being proven innocent to truly being free. when you arrive at home, from your long journey, you know you are free. you are free from the struggles of the outside world, free from the pressures, you are free. welcome. welcome home. [applause]. >> the general idea was to get you all a little inspired. about what we're about and about the work we're all doing. i mean, i think we accomplished that, is that right? [applause]. >> aaron is a freelance writer based in los angeles and is the 2007 new york foundation nor the arts nonfiction fellow, to find out more go to pickingcottonbook.com. >> ellen johnson sirleaf, president of liberia is interviewed about her memoir, "this grandchild will be great" hosted at the ronald reagan building in washington, d.c. is 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, the iron lady of liberia, madam ellen jo

i went through a bout of reading about ancient rome and i read anthony effort's two books, cicero and augustus, two incredible characters in ancient rome and the adrian goldsmith on the biography of julius caesar, i went to carson mccullough's novel on julius caesar, and bob harris's book, imperium, and i couldn't get enough of ancient rome and read every novel and short story steven saylor has done and created the fictional character but the history behind it is accurate, and it is just a mystery detective in ancient rome during the time period, especially during the time of julius caesar and augustus. so, i have had a lot of fun reading about history, and even going to fiction, to further inform me about that great time period in terms of ancient rome. i think in the -- this time of barack obama, one must read for everybody, doris kearns good win's book, i team of rives, the great story of how abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals but had the intestinal fortitude to bring all of them into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he

. >> eugene rogan is a historian, saint anthony's college adox are. this is what we think will be a major new history of the era, and he has taken an interesting approach. he chose to start this history in the 15 hundreds, and his concept there was that is when the ottomans first conquered the arab lands and one of the defining characteristics of arab history is that they have frequently been an occupied ethnic group. so he decided that was the key, it rather than start with mohamed were other histories have started, this was the defining moment. what he would argue his that arabs value history in ways that those of us in the west we don't think about it. first of all their history is much deeper and richer. for most of their history they were a dominant power, and i think one of the things that's going on in the middle east now is arabs are seen that the west sort of looks down on them. that's something that's very inconsistent with their history. so it's very important to understand arab history if you want to unravel what's happening in the arab la

anthony romero the executive director of the aclu has written when it comes to key national security policies, the obama administration discontinuing a path paved by the previous administration. the new administration has embraced or superficially

. >> john duke anthony, i agree with most of what has been said here but additional points on a possible reactions. some macro on semipro ones. in my talks with officials from all six of the gcc summit countries of the henson outside of it, a consensus seems to be in the u.s. which two attack iran and they could probably with the reaction of locally and their society is becoming israel doesn't the consensus is all bets would be off and if it is alleged that israel doesn't even if it doesn't do it all bets would still be off and if there were some collusion of all bets would be off and that is a consensus and get. on the micro side, you can't walk the streets physically if you have ever been there and it's a white in terms of the death and the with but you can block it rhetorically and block it analytically by saying you have done this not in the other and you're going to get really hit and people might want to call the bluff. this happens from time to time during the iran iraq war, all eight years of it, the convoys that wouldn't go into this race because lloyd's of london with clean the

anthony suffrage, the whole thing. but also have on the bottom the story of how regular when in lived and how their lives changed as all of these things happened. i'm a very big believer when i see a picture of the signing of the magna car or the first thanksgiving or joan of arc in the field or whatever. i always want to know where the people went to the bathroom and what kind of shoes they had and were they comfortable. those things about interest me. what happened with this book, it was a wonderful book to write. i was so happy to do it, but i know you've all had the experience of taking history courses, a survey or what ever and get a great information but by the time you get to world war ii there's no more time. it's the end of the year. i went through all of my education and never found out how world war ii got started, just never got to it. and that's sort of what happened with this book. by the time i got to build or to i was out of time and out of pages and out of energy. so as the great moment appeared i just

anthony romero the executive director of the aclu has written that the new administration has embraced policies held over from the bush era including the use of the state secrets claim. last congress legislation essentially the same as h.r. 984 was cosponsored in the senate by senators joe biden and hillary clinton, who are now president obama's vice president and secretary of state. but this year president obama, vice president clinton and vice president biden and the secretary of state secretary have stood silent on the bill. the legislation goes exactly in the wrong direction. so much so that even president obama, vice president biden and secretary of state clinton are running away from it. so should we. and i yield back the balance of my time. >> i thank the gentleman. i now recognize the distinguished chairman of the full committee for an opening statement. >> thank you, chairman. thank you, ranking member emeritus -- i mean, chairman emeritus. the president is running away from a lot of things so this is just one more of them. that doesn't mean that the consideration is not extre

anthony romero, the executive director of the aclu, has written a new administration has embraced policies held over from the bush era including the use of the state secrets play. less congress legislation essentially the same as h.r. 984, was co-sponsored in the senate by senator joe biden and hillary clinton, who were now president obama's vice president and secretary of state but this year president obama, vice president clinton and secretary-- vice president biden, excuse me and secretary of state: have gone silent on the bill. when asked about recently the vice president's communications director said "no comment on this from here." the legislation goes exactly in the wrong direction. so much so that even president obama, vice president biden and secretary of state clinton are running away from it. so should we and i yield back the balance of my time. >> i thank the gentleman and i now recognize the distinguished chairman of the full committee for an opening statement. >> thank you chairman, thank you ranking member in marriages, i mean chairman emeritus. the president is running away

courts, a few commencement addresses at this year's graduation ceremonies given by supreme court justice anthony kennedy, and georgia supreme court justice leea ward sears at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> tomorrow on washington journal, a look at iran and the health care debate on capitol hill. >> how is c-span funded? >> through donations? >> i think you get a little from the federal government. >> grants and stuff like that? >> maybe from sponsors. >> might get some government funding. >> viewers? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative. no government mandate, no government money. >> the u.s. ambassador to iraq said the military will fully comply with the security agreement that calls for u.s. forces to move out of iraqi cities by june 30th. chrishill spoke with reporters at the state department for 25 minutes. >> i'm delighted. one of the things i hope to do is when we have some of our key leaders from around the world in town, to find ways to bring them to you as we can. ambassador chris hill is

anthony romero the executive director of the aclu has written that the new administration has embraced policies held over from the bush era including the use of the state secrets claim. last congress legislation essentially the same as h.r. 984 was cosponsored in the senate by senators joe biden and hillary clinton who are now president obama's vice president and secretary of state. but this year president obama, vice president clinton and -- or vice president biden, excuse me, and secretary of state clinton have gone silent on the bill. when asked about it recently the vice president's communications director said, quote, no comment on this from here. the legislation goes exactly in the wrong direction. so much so that even president obama, vice president biden and secretary of state clinton are running away from it. so should we. he yield back the balance of my time. >> i thank the gentleman. i now recognize the distinguished chairman of the full committee for an opening statement. >> ranking member emeritus -- i mean, chairman emeritus. the president is running away from a lot of th

the captain of a football team and the cheerleader counts more than anything that happened between anthony and cleopatra long ago and that is just the nature of adolescence. what the internet does is empowered adolescence to increase those peer contacts, those in group fixations, the social life of one another, peer pressure 24/7. 24 hours a day they can be in touch with one another seven days a week. and they can improve their lives to contacts with themselves and shut out more and more the voices of adults, not to mention the tax of history and civics and foreign affairs. this is unprecedented. to be able to sit in your bedroom at midnight and have chats with six buddies and down the block in your city and another state, around the world. so that there is no and to appear to appear contact. that is a unique condition of our time. >> but how is this a bad thing? >> sure, kids will be kids and when i was 15 in years old i could have gone home and sat there at the dinner table and text message and i would have gone upstairs to my room and flip open the laptop in order to maintain the social

[inaudible] thank you, john duke anthony national council on u.s.-arab relations, to add to flint's line of questioning and your response, about ethnic divisions and mujahedeen, et cetera, where would you put the u.s.-funded broadcast into iran from the clinton administration, on wards, allegedly to drive a wedge between the government and the populous, on one hand, and, the los angeles-based broadcast as well. could this in any way be a game-breaker, game-changer, if the iranians said we want both of those stopped as well bass we don't do that to you and we are trying to -- because we don't do that to you and trying to discuss and have diplomatic debates on an equal footing. >> i will not dodge your question, by pleading ignorance, but, i have to plead ignorance, i really don't know what these outfits do. i don't know what our official broadcasts say to the iranians, whether or news or whether more politically oriented ac nal sees and -- analyses, i have no idea what the people in l.a. are doing, there is one simple pointed, however we cannot do an

anthony johnson didn't get used at all in game one. you wonder how he feels, helps his team get to the finals now they have no use for him. jameer nelson trying to work himself back in game shape in the middle of the nba finals, calling plays for himself, taking shots, this is not the kind to work out kinks in your game. my former teammate rafer alston needs to play. >> jameer nelson is an all-star point guard, they're working him in because they expect a long series. rafer has to get used to playing his role. >> imposing stat in favor of the los angeles lakers. phil jackson-coached teams a combined 43-0 when winning game one of a seven-game series, all time. >> lamar odom -- he had a double-double in game one. kobe bryant put up big numbers. andrew bynum came up big and pau gasol had 16 and eight. l.a. leading the series 1-0. game two on sunday. >> after every nba finals game is over on abc, turn over to espnews for the post-game news conferences. >> coming up on espnews. more baseball. when we last saw carlos zambrano, he was using a

barbara mclean spears, who was married one year ago to her partner of 15 years, anthony spears, leaves behind her 61-year-old mother, two brothers and two nieces. she was also laid to rest yesterday. mr. speaker, i ask my colleagues to join me in honoring their lives and their loved ones who are left behind. this resolution also recognizes mayor williams and his staff our first responders, police, e.m.s. who were quick to the scene and prevented further loss of life or injury. those emergency personnel worked tirelessly on behalf of our communities, and we thank all of them, including private citizens who stepped up in this great time of need. four of those brave firefighters, as you already heard, were injured in the line of duty on tuesday, and we commend their heroic efforts. the citizens in and around my district have come together in the wake of this devastation. and it has been remarkable. i'm heartened and encouraged by the show of sport which my fellow north carolinians. our small communities are enhanced by businesses like conagra which employed 900 people at this plant. i'm p

. >> yes, hi, john duke anthony, i agree with post of what's been said here but some additional points on possible reactions. there's some macro ones and some micro ones. in my talks with officials from all six of the gcc countries at the heads of state summit and outside of those, a consensus seems to be if the united states were to attack iran that they could probably weather the reaction locally in their societies. if israel does it, that consensusalize bets would be off. if, it's alleged that israel does teven if israel doesn't do tall bets would still be off. and if there was some collusion between the u.s. and israel again, all bets would be off. that's the consensus i get. on the micro side, you can't block the straits physically if you've ever been there. you'd see why in terms of the depth and the width but you could block it rhetorically. you could brock it -- block it analytically by saying you've done this, that, and the other, and bow you are -- boy, you are going to get really hit and people might not want to call that bluff. this happened from time to time during the ira

anthony's death. >> that's right >> at age 86. she and all the sufficientists -- suffragists were republicans. and how do we emphasize the incredible role republican women had in america's history? >> and we have such wonderful women that we can go back to. i put a small appendix in the book off some of history's mentors. you can go back into the old testament. you can find wonderful mentors there. you can find so many women, good godly women and i think god calls forward godly women to lead. and to lead his people. and how important it is for us to remember that. that we do bring a wise perspective to so many debates, company debates, church debates. we need to be more vocal. not be risk-averse and step into that arena and accept those -- look for those open doors and lead and then we all need to be building that network and this is something i would -- i would hope that at some point the history museum could do. outstanding women, ordinary, everyday women that do extraordinary things and i know that some of -- there are some mag

anthony, and louise slaughter. with this bill that she authored, she is one of the strongest links in leading women and this country and protecting our rights. we thank you, louise, for your continued leadership. the horror that played out inside a wichita church, the murder of dr. tiller, is a wound to the conscience of this nation. he had long been a target of violence and hate because he provided legal abortions. he provided medical care to women in need. any time a doctor has to put his life on the line to provide medical care, it has a chilling effect on americans' ability to get the medical care that they need. the consequences of dr. tiller's murder are a tragedy not only to his family, not only for women in kansas, but for women everywhere, especially in areas of our country where there are relatively few medical providers. dr. tiller is the eighth abortion provider to be murdered since 1977. and he was one of just seven doctors in the entire state of kansas. where will women go for the medical help that th