when katherine colbert put together the brief with her colleagues, they asked one simple question and it is entirely unlike any question you will see at the front of any supreme court petition for review. has the supreme court overruled roe vs. wade? i mean, if you put that as a factual statement, the answer clearly was, no, it has not overruled roe vs. wade. it was clear that the women's rights movement it was a risk the court would overturn roe vs. wade. but they also had very much in mind the fact that in 1992 was a presidential election year and they were determined to turn this lawsuit and this supreme court case into a political campaign issue to try primarily to help bill clinton win the white house. in fact, there is some evidence from the political world that this case and the outcome of this case did help. but there's another aspect of katherine colbert's arguments which i think really enticed me to write about it. the hardest thing that a lawyer appearing before the supreme court has to do is to keep control of the argument that they want to make because there are 9 justice

>> if you know katherine colbert, you know that she is stubborn. and she was and she remains very committed to her cause. so if you keep in mind that this was as much a political adventure as it was a jurisprudence enterprise and katherine knew what was on the line. it was a high risk. she was really rolling for a major loss if she either offended kennedy or o'connor because she clearly needed both of them. and from the excerpts that we played for our audience, it's clear that both of them came into the arguments skeptical of her go for broke approach. i don't think it was -- well, you could probably say it was an aberration in the sense that not many causes are that emotional. i mean, dahlia's chapter is about another and a death penalty case is too. most of the time when you go into an oral argument, the issue is not quite as close as it was in this case. most of the cases are not bound to be 5-4. it's still an exception. a court decides cases 7-2, 6-3 so when you know going into a that it's likely to be 5-4, the risks just rise hugely. and kathe

but after katherine the great died, kosciuszko was offered freedom by her son czar paul. here we see john9y la pierre by his side who was with him during his incarceration in russia and he wasn't sure he should take this offer because he had 12 thousand of his soldiers sitting in siberia. well, he made a deal with the czar that, okay, if you let my men go i will go. and the czar said, okay, but you can never come back to poland and you have to promise never to attack again. so in order to free his men, who were in prison, kosciuszko agreed. czar paul also gave kosciuszkor 60,000 rubles and he gave him a fur coat because he was going to kq sweden and he needed something to keep him warm 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 in the most famous portrait of him but in addition to that, if you go down to the jefferson memorial, you'll see that jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for. he

thank you for having me. >> thank you, katherine. i will like to open this up for questions you may have appeared just simply raise your hands and i will come over and stick the microphone to your mouth. >> thank you, that was wonderful. as you look at technology allowing journalists to have their own platforms through twitter and other types of blocking technology, how would you address maintaining the talents within the community when people are going to start developing on anc

katherine will be very missed, but now she's off to college. thank you, ellen tauscher, for being such a great chairwoman and presider over the house of representatives. the speaker: madam speaker, i also wish to acknowledge the leadership of our chairman who so ably brought this important legislation, this historic and transformational legislation to the floor. chairman waxman of the energy and commerce committee, chairman markey of the energy security and climate change committee. congressman rangel, chairman rangel of the ways and means committee. and chairman peterson of the agriculture committee. we thank them for their leadership and for giving us this opportunity today. madam speaker, no matter how long this congress wants to talk about it, we cannot hold back the future. and so in order to move on with the future, i want to yield back my time, submit my statement for the record, urge my colleagues -- urge my colleagues to vote for this important legislation. when you do, just remember these four words for what this legislation means --

pushing and it turns out justice kennedy also was pushing, but as you can hear in a rather a deft way, katherine colburn said i will get to your point and i will argue the pennsylvania statute but i want to get back to the standard by which she meant what standard are we going to sustain roe versus wade and the argument went that way throughout and justice kennedy also jumped in with a similar kind of attempt to push culbert back on to the specifics. >> your are doing there's a fundamental right -- [inaudible] [inaudible] >> well, indeed -- [inaudible] under that standard there is no dispute -- [inaudible] statutory positions did not necessarily cut to improve versus wade. >> if this court was to change -- [inaudible] that will undercut roe versus wade, to abandon -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> as you can see, the pattern set early continued. i should mention to be fair there were two other lawyers arguing in this case in the chapter that i wrote to deals briefly with them, but the performance of catherine i think ultimately proved worth of her choice because she did shape the convers

katherine weymoth is the publisher of the "the post." in fact, she recently talked about how technology is changing the newspaper business "the wall street journal" conference with ariane huffington. her grandmother was her mentor and led "the washington post" for more than two decades. she's been there since 1996 serving and several managing roles. she was named publisher and ceo in 2000 and eight. -- into a dozen date. she is also a mother to three young children. thank you for joining us. [applause] >> think you, rebecca, for that introduction. is -- the year with such a great group of women and i see a few select man who second. it is great to see you. it is great to be a part of the first gathering of this group. i want to tell you a little story. i was driving my 9-year-old daughter to school. she was playing on my iphone. i told her, when i was growing up, we did not have computers, e-mail, iphone, you name it. she said, "well, mom. it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] the pace of change seems to be spee

he told me at one point that he had read katherine graham's's autobiography and was actually quite scared by it. it was a very frank book that won a pulitzer prize, but his frankness scared rumsfeld and so, whether he could bring himself to be as honest as i think still an open question. >> host: did you get the chance to interview former vice president jeannie? >> guest: i did actually twice about rumsfeld. not surprisingly, chaney still defends the line he used about rumsfeld in a farewell ceremony in december, 2006 when cheney called rumsfeld the best secretary defense ever. he thinks rumsfeld's part charging stifel at the pentagon was just what was needed to bring back change. >> host: a couple more calls. tennessee this is michael on the republican line. >> caller: yes, sir, thanks for having me. i just wanted to say i was going to ask your guest if he has ever heard of the situation going back to march, 2003 when the war began where a country that had inspectors on the ground like we did, why it's not finding anything. have they ever started a war like that because i remember world

a little later, a look at the future of journalism with katherine weymouth and david simon, writer and producer of hbo's "the wire." >> tomorrow on "washington journal," michael epplinger and john lott of the university of maryland discuss the obama administration's spending policy on health care, carmakers and the financial system. nathan guttman looks at u.s.-israel relations. >> "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. senate majority whip john kyl discusses some of the issues on the senate's agenda, including health care and preparing for the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. >> i was reading last night, there is a lot of reading involved here. i was reading some very troubling things last night about her views toward international law. in effect saying that you can interpret the united states constitution by looking to see what public opinion is in europe. well, public opinion in europe has nothing whatsoever to do with what our constitution means. and if that's really her point of view, that's very troubling. i mean, i could not vot

>> 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 don't think it was -- you could say it was an admiration in the sense that not many causes or that emotional. dahlia's chapter is about another one that is, the death penalty case ase, too. but most time you go into an oral argument, the issue is not quite as close as it was in this case. most of the cases are not bound to be 5-for. the courts still decide the cases by seven to two, 63 so when we go into a case that it's likely to be five for the risks rise exponentially. so with kathryn simply understood as a political activity she couldn't do anything els

king at the time of kosciuszko's birth was augustus and he was elected thanks to the help of his lover katherine the great of russia. now, russia started having more and more of an impact in polish society at this time so a lot of poles were trying to figure out ways to help drive out the russians. one of them was prince adam who we see here. he caught the -- kosciuszko caught the attention of the prince who was at the time starting a new night school, a royal night school to create a class of soldiers that would help drive out the russians and kosciuszko caught his attention because he was brilliant in math and art. in fact, kosciuszko did this drawing of the prince. now, after graduating from the royal knight school which is the administration's building of the university of warsaw, kosciuszko became a captain of the artillery and during this time, some of the families, the families in poland decided that they wanted to get rid of the russians even faster so a civil war broke out. and in that civil war, polaski who was from one of the families also served in the american revolution led the civ

katherine serks, the association of american physicians. >> thank you, grover. i'm going to talk about three things today. number one, doctors and the hassle factor that's going on. number tw is what's going on with organized medicine and the response to health care reform proposals. number three, most importantly, the impact that this has on patients. the first thing is, i want to ask -- i don't see a lot lot of medicare eligible faces. i venture to say i see a couple. most of you, have any of you heard your parents or grandparents say, i'm having trouble seeing a doctor? i'm having -- takes me a long time to get abappointment? anybody who's listening to us at home. ask your parents or grandparents if they've ever had trouble. they're not alone. you've heard today about government medicine and that we already have government medicine, so what i want to talk about is what it's really like on the front lines of government medicine. what happens with doctors and patients. not just from policy standpoint. not just from a political standpoint. what it's really like

my name is katherine helzly. i'm a heritage foundation intern and a former clare booth luce intern. what do you think in your career is your biggest success and -- but also what is your biggest failure? >> i think that -- and that's a great question and i appreciate that you would ask that. i think probably the greatest success would be relationships and primarily relationships with my family. and making certain that those are all in order before you begin to step forward. failures, you know, i think that -- i look at many of those as being challenges. and they were opportunities because you're always going to have doors that gets slammed in your face. so you have to begin to compartmentalize that. we're all going to get -- when you have things you can let it become a failure or you can let it become a learning opportunity. and the way you address that is how you're going to be able to assess it. now, we've all had elections that we've lost or a business project that was not as fruitful as we would have wanted to, but did we learn from that or not? or we've all had people that have

next month's event, this is the first tuesday in may, we're going to have katherine joyce come and talk about her book "quiverful," which is about christianist ideology, you know, their views of marriage in sort of old testament terms and so on so that should be extremely interesting. you're all welcomed to come to that as well. getting back tonight, you can get a copy of his book up front. he'll be glad to sign it for you. thank you all for coming and let me thank our esteemed guest for his participation. [applause] >> for more on the author on his book "why do you kill," go to whydoyoukillzaid.com. july 4th on book tv discover an unfamiliar side of our nation's first president as we're live from george washington's mount vernon estate with public radio matthew algeo cover the road that harry truman and his bess took a trip from new york city from independence without security. it brought them face-to-face with the american public as they freaked stands, stores and hotels. the event hosted by the kansas city public library in kansas city, missouri, is about an hour. >> in fact, i sweat