as you were describing the casey case and catherine colbert arguments it sounded like she was confrontational. she was combative and sticking to guns. this is the argument i want to make and despite your efforts to get me to deviate from these arguments are going to stick to my guns and in contrast, charles description of bush v. gore and his quotes from ted olson suggest if the justice suggest they want to go in a direction you were going to follow them in that direction so how do you reconcile this? is your case the anomaly or how can we best understand oral? >> if you know katherine you know that she is stubborn at large and she was and remains very committed to her cause. if you keep in mind this was as much a political adventure as it was jurisprudential winter price , catherine knew what was on the line and it was a high risk. she was rolling for a major loss if she they're offended kennedy or o'connor because she clearly needed both of them. and from the excerpts we have played for the audience it's clear both of them came into the arguments skeptical of her go for broke approach. i do

direct consequence i would suggest of catherine's argument. thanks, paul >> thank you, paul and tama for including me. the year 2000 was also a presidential election year so it wasn't terribly tough to select bush v. gore as one of the cases to write about for this collection. indeed, it was a case unique in the history of the country for starters in american politics and in the circumstances of the supreme court. obviously this was great importance. one might even suggest as a political reporter which was part of my responsibility in addition to covering the court, but the best five weeks of the 2000 election campaign were the five weeks between election day and december 12th when the court handed down its opinion in bush v. gore because that we saw pretty much laid out in front of foss and without the bamboozle met of a lot of political eckert rising but the courts were going to do both here in washington and in the state of florida and we were kind of commuting figuratively if not literally between the courts in tallahassee and other places

in russia and he spent two years in prison but after catherine the great died, kosciuszko maza offered freedom by her son, paul. here we see him over to the site with kosciuszko during the incarceration in russia and the first kosciuszko was not sure if he should take the offer because he had 12,000 soldiers sitting in sidey area -- siberia. he made a deal if you let mine in go i will go and the saar said okay but you can never come back to poland and have to promise never to attack again so in order to free his men who were imprisoned, kosciuszko agreed. so he also gave kosciuszko 6,000 -- 60,000 rubles that he would in a bank account in london and he gave him a fur coats because he was going to cross sweden in the river to go to england so he figured he needed to be warm. you see the call were here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution, he gave the coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here in the most famous portrait of him in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is also portrayed wearing this f

elected and their king at the time of the kosciuszko's birth was elected thanks to the help of his lover, catherine the great of russia. russia started having more and more impact in polish society at this time so a lot of polls were trying to find a way to help drive out the russians. one of them was prince adam who we see here. he caught the -- kosciuszko call the attention of the prince at the time starting in light school to create a class of soldiers the would help drive out the russians and kosciuszko caught his attention because he was brilliant in math and art and in fact kosciuszko did this drawing of the prince. now after graduating from a of school which today is the administration building of the university of warsaw, kosciuszko became captain of the artillery and during this time some of the families in poland decided they wanted to get rid of the russians even faster so a civil war broke out and in that civil war cassimere pulaski from of the families you may have heard of also served in the american revolution led the civil war to drive out the russians. kosciuszko had a choice to ma

in russia he spent two years in prison with john lapierre but after catherine the great died, kosciuszko was offered freedom by her son. here we see john lapierre to this side with kosciuszko during his incarceration in russia. at first kosciuszko was unsure if he should take this offer because he had 12,000 soldiers sitting in siberia. well, he made the deal with this are that okay if you let my men go i will go. and bizarre said okay but you can never come back to poland and you have to promise never to attack again. in order to free his men who were in prison kosciuszko agreed. czar paul gave kosciuszko six delge-- 60,000 rubles which he put in a bank account for him in london and he also gave him a fur coats. because he was going to cross sweden in the winter to go to england so we figured he needed to be warm. now you see the fur here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution. he gave that fur coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here and the most famous portrait of him but in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you wil

he told me one time he had read catherine graham's autobiography and was quite scared by it. it was a very frank book and won a pulitzer prize. but its frankness scared rumsfeld. whether he can bring himself to be as honest is still an open question. host: did you get a chance to interview former vice-president dick cheney about this book? guest: i did interview him twice about donald rumsfeld. not surprisingly big jenny still defends the line he gave about rumsfled end the farewell sermon. he calls in the best secretary of defense ever and thinks his hard-charging style was just what what was needed to bring about change. host: here are a couple more calls. this is the republican lead. caller: thank you. i wanted to ask your guest if he has ever heard of the situation -- march 2003 when the war began -- where it a country with inspectors on the ground could go off to iraq not signing anything, have they ever started a war like that? i remember in the first world war for the shot the austrian die and the the austrians demanded to go into serbia to look for the conspirators. t

catherine will be very mess, but now she is off to college. thank you for being such a great chairwoman and presided over the house of representatives. -- presiding chair person over the house of representatives. [applause] madam speaker, i also wish to it knowledge our chairman who brought this important legislation to the floor. chairman waxman of the commerce committee, chairman markey of the energy security and climate change committee, congressman rangel of the ways and means committee and chairman petersen of the agricultural committee. we thank you for their leadership. madam speaker, no matter how long this congress wants to talk about it, we cannot hold back the future. in order to move on with the future, i want to yield back my time, i submit my statement for the record and urge my colleagues to vote for this important legislation. when you do, remember these four words for what this legislation means jobs jobs -- jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. let's vote for jobs. >> the house then went on to pass the energy and climate change bill. da

and his beautiful wife christine have been married for 30 years and have two children, matthew and catherine. ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor to introduce a wonderful conservative republican and a privilege for me to introduce to you america's tenor, the incomparable steve amerson. ♪ ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ >>> thank you. you may be seated. i've been asked if i would also sing an invocation for this evening. that what goes on in this room this evening would be honoring to our nation and to our god. and i can think of no other song that would be so fitting as the words of st. francis of an assisi.ssisi. ♪

. >> a look now at the publishing industry with catherine weymouth. this is about 40 minutes. . >> a good morning. hello, hello. good morning. my name is rebecca zimmerman. i am principle of "mind over machines. we're a strategy consulting firm based here in the d.c. metro area. i want to extend a welcome to all of you. i think we have about 250 attendees. welcome to our inaugural event. i am honored to be the chairperson of the mid atlantic women and technology conference. we are a proud sponsor a law with lockheed martin, and are to integrated. the queue for sponsoring. this inaugural event will provide us with an opportunity to connect, share, and learned, and experience the true power of women in technology. before i introduce this morning was the keynote speaker, let's take a brief look at the state of women in technology today. the women and technology to a parade of women face challenges in every industry, but i find that, although women make up half of the workforce in the united states, our ranks are declining in information technology. from

it talks about the french revolution, the american revolution and what was happening in russia with catherine the great at the same time and it ties history together better than any book that i've ever read especially how each one of those -- each one of those countries affected each other and so it's one of the better history books that i've ever read. >> to see more summer lists and other program information visit our website at booktv.org. ♪ >> "after words" with tyranny cahill and delegate eleanor holmes norton continues. >> host: we're back with ms. cahill, who ran a remarkable campaign for congress. i can't tell you she's not one of my colleagues but she may be and how this was a remarkable book. "ms. cahill for congress" came out in paperback. i've indicated that you have been critical of the profession and of schools, but you've also offered a defense of schools and teachers and where they find themselves. can book is not a diatribe about schools. what's right and wrong with education you need to get yourself another book. if you want to have some fun reading about education, about

catherine was fortunate to have a strong mentor, a grandmother, the late katharine graham, who led "washington post closed with more than two decades. she has been with open "the washington post" since 2006, serving legal and management roles. she was named publisher and ceo into thousand eight. washington, d.c., resident, she is also mother to three young children. thank you for joining us. [applause] >> thank you, rebecca, for this great and interesting introduction. it is great to be here with such a great pope of women and i see a few select men snuck in. great to see you. i am also thrilled to be part of the first gathering of this group. as i was thinking about women and technology, i want to tell you a little story. i was driving my nine-year-old daughter to school. she was playing on my io -- iphone. i told a, you know, when i was growing up, we did not have computers, e-mail, iphone, you name it. she said, wow, mama, it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] we are living in this incredible time when the pace of change seems to be speeding up. new devices are bei

. >> catherine, wgn is. you said the ama is committed to covering all americans, working to cover the ensured and make insurance more affordable. can you talk about your proposal just as the president did today? >> actually, we have been developing a plan over the last decade. i am not sure that you knew that, but we have. we have been working on this issue of the uninsured for a long time. we are absolutely committed to those who are lawmakers and two are helping to develop the plans to make sure that we get to a solution this year. now, the details of our plan are available on our web site and i am happy to go over that with you but it is not our plan that is really on the table right now. we are committed to americans having choice, and you heard the president talked about that today as well. we want them to have a choice of coverage, the choice of doctors and you know, i am happy to discuss other areas that are part of our plan that probably you want to hear more about what is really in place right now.

however, catherine the great said if the poles free their serfs, mine will wanted to be free, and she got together with the prussians, and the austrians and they all attacked poland at once. now, kosciuszko who had fought in the american revolution, and was very impressed with the notion of minute mitt men and militias, explained to the poles that we need to have groups that are ready, and different areas, so we'll have our regular army and when the war goes to different regions, we should have local people ready. and at the time, in poland, 80% of the population were serfs, and 10% know built and 10% were jews. now, he wrote, that we need to have a regular army, recruited by force, made up -- if we have a regular arm recruited by force, made up of mole peasant with no legal rights, where government protection of their persons or their property they won't feel ties to our country and not be interested in our common good. and if we have this militia of all classes, he wrote, especially the nobles should be represented in the same proportion as peasant, jews and those with no complete t