certainly, there were yale institutions, primarily, the yale daily news. [inaudible] >> oh, okay, there's that too. but the yale daily news is certainly something that he loved and cared about and kept touch with for years. he would also go back to the yale political union which he'd been a member of as a forum for debates and this was useful to him because he would film the debates and use them for firing line but that was a forum that he picked and cared about. he taught at least one writing course at yale. so, look, he did not burn every bridge. but he did see, and i think he saw quite correctly in the late 40s, very early '50s, yale was running a con, you know, and yale was conveying an impression to its alumni saying that, well, you know, you're all christian capitalists and we're the school that stands for that. and they didn't anymore. they had change. they probably changed, you know, as recently as the '40s. so they were sailing under false colors and it was a very bill-like thing -- i mean, it's related to dear arthur or dear barfer. you know, you

the yale daily news. a day. there is that too. the yale daily news was something he loved and cared about and kept touch with for years. he would also go back to the political union which he had been a member of, a forum for debate. this was useful to him because he would fill the debate, that was a forum that he picked and cared about. he taught at least one writing course at yale. he did not burn every bridge, but he did see, and he saw quite correctly in the late 40s and nearly 50s, yale was running con, was conveying an oppression to its alumni saying you are all christian capitalists in a school the stand for that. and they didn't any more. they had changed. they probably changed as recently as the 40s. they were sailing under false colors and it was a very bill-like skin related to dear arthur, saying this is what you are doing. may be the final point is you can do that but it doesn't need to cross the stores again. i think he still had a connection to the skull and bones. there were friends he made

as the dean of the yale law school. he comes to this position with an extraordinary

the dean of the yale law school. he spoke at a class reunion. i was in the yale law school class of 1956 and hosted a reunion here in the capitol on june the 6th of 2008. he was greeted by a number of prominent members of the united states senate at that time. and i make these comments about my personal association with him in the interest of full disclosure. but the thrust of my recommendation is based upon his extraordinary record. harold koh graduated from the harvard law school -- from harvard college, also from harvard law school. but he graduated from harvard college summa cum laude in 1985. he was a marshall scholar at oxford university, where he got a master's degree in 1977. he graduated cum laude from the harvard law school in 1980, where he was developments editor of the "harvard law review." he then clerked for judge richard wilkey in the court of appeals for the district of columbia, then for supreme court justice harry blackmun. then he served -- and he worked as a lawyer in the distinguished washington

koh and others in yale's administration challenged the constitutionality of the solomon amendment. now, the solomon amendment is a statute that denies federal funds to educational institutions that block military recruiters. the supreme court unanimously ruled against mr. koh's positi position. mr. koh also led a lawsuit against department of justice lawyer john yu for doing what any government lawyer is expected to do: provide his legal opinions to the people that he worked for, to the policy-makers of the u.s. government. the supreme court has said in no uncertain terms that government lawyers need immunity from suit in order to avoid -- and i quote here -- "the deterrence of able citizens from acceptance of public office and the danger that fear of being sued will dampen the arter of public officials in the inflinching discharge of their duties." in other words, by encouraging this lawsuit, many koh was -- mr. koh was effectively deterring his students from doing precisely what yale otherwise recommends that they do: enter public service. elections have consequences. i understan

yale? of course, very critical of aspects of the education in the late 1940's and that he received there. did his feelings the ball in any way over the years? to the best of my knowledge or all of his prominence i do not know the was ever honored by gail but perhaps you could set me straight on that? >> yale was founded 17 o one so they had a try centennial and there was a big thing. i did not go to a but there was a celebration of the famous alumni and things that were produced and bill told us afterwards he said i shared the stage with big bird. [laughter] so that says that he went to this and was a part of the us. certainly there were yale institutions by merely "the daily news". >> [inaudible] >> okay. there is that to. by the cared about and kept touch with four years to also go back to the old political union of which she had been a

yale buttite knock sure if he would have founded the national review. would he have used the other media or founded the national review. >> well, that's an excellent question, and it's a very deep question about people's talents and people's opportunities. bill had brilliant skills as a journalist. at 750 words at the top of his game, just didn't get better. and that was the form that existed in the years that he lived and worked. on television, he was made for the television era that he entered and that he transformed. remember, firing line starts in 1966, and what's there? it's walter cronkite and johnny carson, and huntley brinkley are the edgiest things in mainstream television, and firing line is from a different galaxy. it starts with a concerto, and it's the content of what he is saying, and one of the very interesting anecdotes, years ago i was on an panel, and afterwards an old man came up to me and said, do you see mr. buckfully will you thank him for me. i'm a man of the left, but firing line was the only place in the late 60s where left-wing

and one of those attending is yale university press and there are four new titles that yale university press has out and chris rogers is the executive editor. what would you like to tell us about the conservatives? >> the conservatives is one of the first histories of all conservatives from the founding fathers right up through the bush administration. and it, you know, covers really the ideas and personalities that have evolved and how much it's changed over time and really almost come full circle to the colonial period in a very almost symmetrical sense. so each century reall had a different notion of what the conservative ideology was. and i think the beauty of the book is the sort of balanced nonideological objective historical view of the conservatives through time over three centuries. >> who's patrick allen. >> he's a historian. he's from australia. he is a full professor at emory university. and this is his -- one of his areas of specialization. >> now, mr. rogers, who are the first two gentlemen featured on the conservative's cover? >> thank you for asking. that's a very good

she went on to yale law school. when commentators have questioned whether she was smart enough, you cannot make up that you have these high awards from these prestigious universities. since graduating, the judge -- graduating from law school, she spent five years as a prosecutor at the manhattan district attorney's office. it was one of the most dizzying offices in our country. at the time, it paid about half as much as a job in the private sector. she took the job as a prosecutor. i was a prosecutor before i entered the senate. i managed about 400 people in minnesota. i've is very interested in the experience that we had. one of the things that i learned and i know she understood is that as a prosecutor, bollore is not a dusty book in your basement. after you've seen the damage that crime can do in your community, and you have seen some families in the courtroom, you know that law is not an abstract subject. you see that it has a real impact on real people. as a prosecutor, you do not just have to know all you have

host: you published or finding a secrecy in the yale and policy review. it is linked on our website. who do hope reads this and takes it too hard? guest: -- and takes it to heart. -- guest: anyone who can benefit from the background. my ideas are not above criticism and readers may have better ideas. i hope that anyone interested will get engaged and contribute. host: there's an irony that your agency was born out of the manhattan project, the most sacred of all, correct? guest: yes, and that has been a concern since 1945 at its founding. the manhattan project was in many ways the cradle of the cold war secrecy system that is still with us today. all of these things are rooted in a manhattan project and something many are still concerned with now. host: was that ever at risk of exposure? guest: the manhattan project was exposed not so much by journalists as by penetration by soviet spies. many of the most sensitive secrets, the technological secrets of the time down there weight quickly to the soviet union via espionage. that is a fact of life. host: davi

after growing up in a public housing project in the bronx, she excelled at princeton and yacht -- yale law school. i believe that she is an excellent choice to replace david souter as a supreme court justice. she deserves a fair and a thorough hearing without delay. mr. president, i look forward to that hearing, and i yield the floor. ms. klobuchar: well, thank you very much, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i ask for recognized? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i want to thank my colleague, senator shaheen, for her remarks and for her reminiscence of meeting with the judge and her -- once again, the judge showing i was saying that this nominee would bring more federal judicial experience to the supreme court in any justice in 100 years. i notice my exchange in the airport with one person who wondered if she was a worthy of this position and apply the facts and the law. when you look at the experience that she brings, and you compared to any of these other nominees on the supreme court, she stands out. she

half his staff comes from harvard and the other half comes from yale. i often say if we are attacked by terrorists during the harvard-yale game, we are all screwed, because they will all be up there in new haven. he has a very smart staff filled with people who really will argue in front of him. he had a decision a few weeks ago to decide whether to release the torture memos. he gathered people in the office of his chief of staff, rahm emanuel, and they literally had a debate. he listened to the bay for an hour and a decision right there on the spot. rahm emanuel is from chicago. he is a competitive, aggressive guy. he has lost his middle finger in a delil accident, and he is very confrontational and curses a lot. obama jokes that when he lost his middle finger, he was rendered mute. [laughter] he is concerned about education because he's afraid american high school students are cursing at a fourth grade level. that is a good rahm emanuel line. the self-confidence of obama has made him president and helped him tackle although problems we have. that self

. >> book expo merck but at the yale university press with the director of yale university press. what is coming out this fall? >> a number of great books including the making of americans, and hersh wrote the best-selling book called cultural literacy. he cares very much about what role education has been actually defining what it means to be mayor can and this book is sort of a capstone of his career which includes many best sellers but to talk route the centrality of the reformation and knowledge and what it means to have a shared corpus of knowledge and how important it is too our national identity and how would is being threatened by the way education seems to be split across the country. of hasselhoff of voice, advocacy, to look at what the new minister shin can do about the admit the administration. >> elephants on the edge what animals teach us about humanity? >> it is a marvelous book and very moving, touching, what she does, she has quite a platform she has been on "60 minutes" and 20/20 but she tries to understand how human behavior affects global population of animals

i noticed something, we are pulling all of the articles i had this library and at yale helping me pull all the articles and i noticed that along the way as she was doing this over the three month period she lost 30 pounds. [laughter] because all the articles on prevention -- we know that excess weight isn't good for us but it was striking, the contribution to health. and just one whoa, very basic numbers. ten years ago there were four cases per thousand of type two diabetes. four cases per thousand. today, there are nine cases per thousand. we spent, in 2000, $7 billion on drugs for diabetes ii. today we spend $13 billion. diabetes type to i could write excess weight in the medical chart because that is the mechanism that contributes mildly to the disease. we all want health reform. no one in this town is not talking about health care reform, but how are we going to be able to get a handle on these costs when we can't get a handle on something as basic as excess weight? what's going on. i asked my friend, kathryn, at the center for disease control now has weight change over the decades

the other half comes from yale. and i often say if we're attacked by terrorists during the harvard yale game we're screwed because they will be up there in new haven. but he's got -- as a result a very smart staff. filled with people who really argue and will argue in front of them. he had this decision a few weeks ago where he had to decide whether to release these torture memos. he gathered people in the office of his chief of staff, rahm emanuel. and they literally had a debate. he listened to the debate for an hour and made the decision right there on the spot. that's an impressive level of substance. and this chief of staff, rahm emanuel, from chicago. he's sort of a competitive, aggressive guy. he's lost his middle finishing nar deli accident -- middle finger in a deli accident. he is very confrontational and curses a lot. obama said when he lost his middle finger he was rendered mute. [laughter] nothing else -- my other rahm joke is he's very concerned about education. and he's concerned about the american ed

after growing up in public housing project in the south bronx to she excelled at both princeton and yale law school. quote i believe judge sonia sotomayor is an excellent choice to replace david souter as a supreme court justice. and she deserves a fair in a thorough hearing without delay. mr. president, i look forward to that hearing and i yield the floor. >> thank you very much, mr. president. it can ask to be recognized? >> seven tourette's minnesota. >> and want to thank my colleague for her remarks and for reminiscence of meeting with judge and her month -- showing how she perseveres in the face of diversity. i also want to talk a little bit more. i was sending my last commons talking about how, in fact, this money would bring more federal judicial experience to the supreme court that any justice in 100 years and i had earlier noted my exchange with someone in the airport where he wondered if she was worthy of this in she was able to apply the tax, applied ala. clearly when you look at this experience that she brings and you compare her two any of these other nominees on the supreme

she went on to yale law school which launched a three decades'-long career in the law. so when commentators have questioned whether she was smart enough, i'm lirks you can't make this up. you can't make up f.b.i. bet at that cap pavment you can't make up that you have these high awards and that you're summa cum laude and phi bet at that kappa. these are facts that should go into evidence. since graduating, the judge has a varied and interesting legal career. she's worked as a private -- in the private sector as a litigator. she's been a district court and an appellate court judge and she's taught law school classes. but the one experience of hers that particularly resonates for me is that immediately graduating from law school, she spent five years as a prosecutor at the manhattan district attorney's office, which was one of the busiest and most well-thought-of prosecutors' offices in our country. at that time it paid about half as much as a scrob in the private sector, but she wanted the challenge and the trial experience, as she told me when we met, and she took the j

, won herself a scholarship to princeton, went there, excelled, and later went off to law school at yale, two of the finest institutions we have in our country. after that she was a prosecutor for a number of years. beyond that, a corporate litigator, and finally nominated by a republican president, george herbert walker bush, to serve as a district court judge. by all -- by all observe,she did a superb job there -- by all observers, she did a superb job there. she was an exceptional judge. so good that a few years later when there was a vacancy on the circuit court of appeals in her district, democrat president bill clinton said, i think she out to got the nod. he nominated her for that position and she was confirmed by a wide margin. she has actually been through this process not once, but twice. she has gone on to serve, i think, longer as a federal judge -- when you add together the district court time and circuit court of appeals time -- i think she served longer as a federal judge than anybody in the last 100 years who's been nominated to serve on the u.s. supreme court. i've read

her academic standing at princeton was summa cum laude, a graduate of the yale law school, where she was a member of the board of editors. then in her practice, she was an assistant district attorney in manhattan, a position which gives very extensive experience in many important facets of the law, something i know from my own experience years ago as an assistant district attorney. then she was in private practice on -- with a very prestigious new york law firm. then served on the united states district court. and more recently on the court of appeals for the second circuit. the hearings will give judge sotomayor an opportunity to respond to a number of issues which have been raised about her background. i think that chairman leahy was correct in moving the hearing date so that the confirmation process could be concluded in time for judge sotomayor, if confirmed, to sit with the court during september when the court will decide what cases it will hear. a great deal of the important work of the supreme court of the united states is decided on what cases they decide not to hear. and pe

my mother's father worked for the coal company in connecticut, and my father's father worked for the yale lock company making those locks that had the hinges. that's what he did. very hardworking family. one ball and two strikes to scutaro. they had a whole bunch of them six early. fastball up. the pitching staff is suddenly doing its job. so the defense. harris, bard and the pitcher spot coming up.  >>> adam done was coached b his dad, and now he cherishes every minute he gets to spend with his son, brady. i asked him earlier what father's day moans to him. >> father's day is about my father, and i look at it as kind of reflecting what my father did for me. he's obviously been the best, and he's been there for me through the good and bad. >> really proud of his son, bob. >> yeah think of anything prouder than seeing your son make it to the major leagues. >> and have success. there's adam and brady. >>. >> we're told that that ball was hit onto potomac avenue. >> he takes it up and in, so he's another candidate to get on base. the nationals have had their leadoff man o

academically, we have princeton, yale law school, the editor of the law review. that is very impressive. if that were not enough, her background is very significant. as a trial lawyer, i'm very impressed. a prosecutor, a trial judge for many years, and then an appellate judge. we could not have anyone more qualified. i think your life story is so compelling, and america identifies with the underdog. you have been an underdog many times in your life. but your top dog, and i appreciated. thank you very much, everybody -- i appreciate it. >> later, sotomayor met with patrick leahy, senate judiciary committee chair. >> the judge and i were talking about the second circuit, difference -- dear friends. [inaudible] have you all got enough footage? >> thank you, senator. >> can we -- let's be fair. she will talk about that. >> do you know when you may start hearing? >> thank you. good morning. i first of what to say i appreciate how difficult is for everyone to squeeze in and squeeze out of a -- i apologize, we do not have a bigger room. i was delighted to see her again.

in the navy during the vietnam conflict, graduate of stanford and yale undergraduate degree. so you really have the tools and experience and the background, i think, to make a significant difference. and i personally want to say i'm excited about your nomination. i think this is going to be a great opportunity for us to get this right and to give the country that renewed sense of confidence about how this program is working, and why it is in their interest that we succeed with it. you and your family have epitomized the importance of public service. you know you now have a unique opportunity to affect the role that our financial markets and institutions play in the lives of literally virtually every american citizen. in many ways you'll hold the keys to the future of housing, financial and economic crises that we're currently encountering. and you have a remarkable opportunity to make a difference for millions of americans and i know you're aware. i know you some family members here as well this morning. let's take a minute and introduce them as well. can we do that before we

[applause] david kessler has been the dean of the medical schools of yale and university and the university of california san francisco. he served as commissioner of u.s. food and drug administration under presidents george h. w. bush and bill clinton from 1990 to 1997. dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago law school. rodale is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. .. >> host: we are here with one of the authors i am have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano board in the uruguay i mentioned to him i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and studies about latin america was because of your work spur it is really a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> thank you. >> host: you have been in the states for a while? how long? >> guest: it 10 minutes. i just arrived. >> host: i know you are going to york. >> guest: and then other cities. >> my new baby. >> this is the book, at "mirrors" stories of almost everyone but of course, i checked out th

pointed out that since their graduation from yale and columbia law school, she's on her own, more or less. i pointed out that i tried numerous criminal and civil cases since my sister's conviction without objection from the government, and so i proceeded on in the case. i denied dr. bobo's motion for double jeopardy, i mean motion to dismiss based on double jeopardy grounds, and the government then filed a motion to disqualify mr. siegelman's lawyers. and i granted the motion. no theless, the united states attorney, with the wreckless impermada of the highest levels of the justice department filed a motion asking me to disqualify myself. of course dinid the motion and the justice department rushed to the 11th circuit to have me removed from the case, but the panel of two democratic appointees and one republican denied the requested mandamus petition. in the meantime the united states attorneys office rather blatantly attempted to poison the jury pool. on a friday afternoon, mr. siegelman filed a motion requesting the sealing of any other bad acts evidenced under rule 404-b that the g

host: our guests, dahlia lithwick, is a lawyer and a graduate of yale university. another point of view expressed this morning in "the washington times." they write that the firefighters play by the rules. they did what was asked of them to advance their careers and provide for their families. they prepared, they studied, and they excelled. in judge sonia sotomayor's america, people are just by the color of their skin, not the content of their character, says "bill washington times." -- says "the washington times." we showed you open code the washington post" earlier. charles is on the phone from richmond. caller: i agree with you to a certain degree, but the supreme court was an activist court. they tried to make a new law. they did i have always supported judge sotomayer. it was three judges. what she did was to apply the law as it was written, and it was sentenced to supreme court, and they looked added back and said, what you should do is we look -- re dashlook at the situation, because -- relook of the situation because much of it was a multiple choice. it is

she is now a scholar in residence at the yale law school. we have john, a professor of law at the northwestern law school, for who knows the justice department from the inside. and we also have a well-known washington attorney who has argued 52 cases before the supreme court. it is not a record but it puts him in the big-league of protectionist -- practitioners. i want to thank chief judge williams, a judge niedermayer, the other judges of the circuit for their hospitality and extraordinary staff. i cannot think these people too much for having helped us with the arrangements. so if the panel does not suit your expectations, but it is not because the circuit and staff did not do their best. we are in the fourth year of the so-called roberts court. there is the convention of calling the supreme court by the name of the chief justice that is deceptive. we have every reason to think this will be the roberts scored in every sense of the word, but a is a young escort yet. i want to provide a little historical context at the outset. it struck me,

she went on to graduate from yale, she was involved in prosecution, and private law practice. she has an amazing background. i think that she will be an extraordinary member of the supreme court. jeff sessions talked about his philosophy, i had no prepared remarks, i disagree with him but i respect him very much. i hope that we can serve the nation by giving her a fair hearing. we should not use a double standard on the nominee. the chairman has suggested a timely hearing, within the same schedule of those who went before, like chief justice roberts or alito. if she is given the same -- the same standard of fairness, i think that she will do well. >> i will say to my colleague, a great lawyer and excellent senator, i think, i would respectfully talk about the ideas that he suggests. he spoke about brown vs. board of education, where the supreme court said that separate was not equal, and some say this is a justification -- justification for a judge setting policy. i would see this differently, i would see this as the supreme court saying that the constitution of the united sta

who are in these scientific institutions and these different upper level colleges like princeton and yale and what have you, if they were so much more intelligent than everyone else, then why do we have global warming? host: hard to argue any of that. you used the word "bipartisan." at the federal level this has been a -- guest: president obama ever since he was in chicago before in favor of charter schools. we will have a national conference on monday and talking about charter schools and turn around and transformation. we want people to understand it is a movement that has support of both sides of the aisle. host: the national charter schools conference ruins june 21st-24. what are the key elements up for discussion at this conference? guest: as i said & one of the first ones will be secretary duncan's speech about transforming the public schools around the country. the potential of charter models that are doing that, taking over schools that are not serving kids. we have a lot of keynote speakers. michelle reid talking about her plans. joe clieklein talking about wha is doing in

a playwright and a teacher at columbia university and he is an author and first-year law student at yale. >> this is my play right to son and his wife and she is a novelist. and a poet. >> it is crowded because i have been here 20 years. these are my three kids. that is our place in california that i mentioned. that is us. about 12 years ago. >> several of my students have published books. of borders and dreams was a day dissertation of her doctorate. these shows are actually for my research class because they teach glasses and qualitative for a narrative research and one of the things we do is we read a lot of examples of qualitative for interpretive research and try to see what other people have done. for example, this is a tremendous book about street vendors in new york city and then they hang out with these guys. that is the cover of a book that i edited and maxine was my a mentor at teachers college at columbia university. a book i just found is the high school slang dictionary my brother who just retired as an english teacher put together year after year and it is a very, very sma

you have put together a recommendation that will be published in a duel review and policy -- and the yale and policy review. you write about several levels. what are those? guest: there are three former levels. confidential, secret, and top- secret been the highest. there are also other kinds of controls on unclassified information. the pace of classifications, the rate at which new secrets are generated has steadily increased up to 23 million last year. that is mind-boggler. we're generating tremendous numbers of secrets and not all are legitimate or valid. the policy challenged is how we can reduce its secrecy down to the necessary minimum and eliminates a various secrets. -- and eliminate spurious secrets? host: it is by executive order that the president controls classification. he cannot have oversight on all the incidents, so must fall within specific departments. who within an agency is designated to oversee that? guest: that is right. the president delegates his own classification authority to two dozen different officials, agency heads who in turn delegate that authority to other

earlier for a statement her excellent academic record, high rankings at princeton, undergraduate and yale law school, her work as an assistant district attorney and her professional experience with a major law firm. her tenure on the federal trial court and her current tenure on the court of appeals for the second circuit. today i am writing to judge sotomayor to give her any man's notice i will be acquiring to her views on television. i have long advocated televising the proceedings of the supreme court to and have introduced legislation to require that subject to a decision by the court on a particular case and they thought that the court ought not to be televised. i think the analogy is very apt televising proceedings of the u.s. senate or the u.s. house of representatives so that the public may be informed as to what is going on on these public matters. in the arguments to the supreme court are open to the public and only a very few people have an opportunity to see them first not easy to come to washington and sign and so many people would then come to washington are allowed to be

you have put together a recommendation that will be published in a duel review and policy -- and the yale and policy review. you write about several levels. what are those? guest: there are three former levels. confidential, secret, and top- secret been the highest. there are also other kinds of controls on

in the '70s -- we do 400 books per year mostly in humanities and science been a director of yale university press. thank you very much. >> "washington journal" continues. host: on your screen right now is the former chairman of the joint chiefs, richard myers, 40 years in the u.s. military, and he came into office three widelt general, i want to start the conversation with congresswoman wooley, you talk about not being clear on the objective of the campaign in iraq and afghanistan and how difficult it was to know what success was. will you talk about that in light of the fact we are changing strategies particularly in afghanistan? >> i will contrast previous conflicts, world war ii, we knew what victory was, you could follow lines on a map as we advance through europe towards berlin or as we advanced towards japan. you could track progress. we had a better sense of what victory was going to be. when you are fighting an insurgency, those distinctions are not as clear so it is difficult to describe what victory is. in a military sense there is not going to be victory. there will be victory in

floor statement that your excellent -- her excellent academic record, her experience at harvard and yale, a professional experience and her tenure on the federal trial court under current tenure and the court of appeals for the second circuit. today, i am writing to judge sotomayor to give her advance notice that i willç be inquirig to reviews on television. -- to her views on television. i have long advocated to televise the proceedings of the supreme court. i have introduced legislation to require that, subject to a decision by the court on a particular case if they thought that it ought not to be televised. i think the televising the proceedings of the u.s. senate or house of representatives informs the public as to what is going on in these public matters. the arguments of the supreme court are open to the public. but only a few people have an opportunity to see them. first, it is not easy to come to washington. second, there are so many people even who do come to washington that they are allowed to be their only very few minutes. but with the marvels of television, this proceeding

she became an editor of the law general and yale law school which many consider to be the nation's best. prosecuting crimes from murder to child abuse to fraud winning convictions along the way. republican president george h.w. bush appointed her. bill clinton apointed her to the u.s. court of appeals. she was confirmed by a democratic majority senate and then a republican majority senate. her record as a judge is as clear as accessible as any recent nominee and clearly shows modesty and restraint on the bench. she would bring under experience the the supreme court than any justice in 70 years and more federal judicial experience than anyone in the past century. her record and hered a theerns precedent leave no doubt whatsoever. she respects the constitution and the rule of law. her record has made it clear that she believes what determines a case is not her personal prempses but the law. her hundreds of decisions prove conclusively that she looks at what the law says. she looks at what congress has said and she looks, above all, at what precedent says. she is metic louse about looking

you look at people from harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, brown, and the revolving door of people from wall street into our treasury department and from the central banking system which the fed is like tim geithner from the central banking system of the new york -- but it is just a big smokescreen. if they create mountains of bureaucracy there will be no accountability. host: some say the fed might be the best entity out there to deal with this. caller: the fed has created this -- greenscam since the 1990's artificially controlled interest rates. then he climbs there was no way that anyone could have predicted this housing problem. host: do you see ben bernanke best being different? caller: he was with green-scam during those years. guest: there is an interesting debate that has not yet been resolved about the role that the fed plays in creating this financial crisis. after the 2001 recession there was a fear we would go into japan-style deflationary. the fed cut interest rates to only 1%. then they said there would keep it there for a long time and did. there is an idea that the cap p

and again, as a law professor and dean of yale law school, i understand law professors advocating cutting-edge and, indeed, provocative legal interpretations. but to say that this is appropriate not in the classroom as a teaching exercise but, rather, important for federal judges to do in the exercise of their article 3 powers is an entirely different notion altogetherment in another writing -- or another lecture in 2002, professor koh gave a lecture titled -- quote -- "a world drowning in guns." in which he argued for a -- quote -- "global gu gun-control regime." a global gun control regime. in 2007, he argued that foreign prisoners of war held by the united states armed forces anywhere in the world, not just enemy combatants held at guantanamo bay, are entitled to the same rights as american citizens under habeas corpus law as applied by our federal courts. perhaps most timely, professor koh appears to draw a moral equivalence between the iranian regime's political suppression and human rights abuses on one hand and america's counterterrorism policies on the other. professor koh has written

in october of 2003 -- some of us remember this -- koh led a team of yale law faculty in filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the u.s. department of defense claiming the solomon amendment was unconstitutional. the supreme court rejected koh's arguments unanimously. that's a time when there were very few things that were unanimous in the united states supreme court. he was rejected unanimously. in writing for the court, chief skwrufrts roberts stated -- quote -- "nothing about recruiting suggests that law schools agree with any speech by recruiters and nothing in the solomon amendment restricts what the law schools may say about the military's policies." further, koh supports accession to the international criminal court, the united nations convention and the law of the sea treaty, the u.u. convention on the rights of the child, and the inter-american convention against illist sit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms. that's to thing sifta promoted by president obama. that is that we yield to an international group in terms of how we manufacture and distribute weapon

in an article published in 1993 in the yale law online entitled misunderstood derivatives, i argue that the particular characterricses of the modern financial innovation process will cause even the most sophisticated financial institutions to make big mistakes has to derivatives. second, in terms of the gap in information as to this innovation process between regulators and the regulated are extraordinary, that regulators may not even be aware of the existence of certain derivatives, much less how they are modeled or used, and so beginning in 1993, i have urged the creation of a centralized informational clearinghouse as to otc derivatives. third, one particular example of the innovation process, the so-called decoupling process, i have beginning in 2006 -- i have -- written a series of articles saying that the decoupling process can open up the core of the economic system so in the initial 2006 article the focus on the equity side showed how you can have an empty voter phenomenon, for instance, the person holding the most number of votes in a company could be somebody with no economic

my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend of the school year since he had gone away to college, i wrote him on a small, black metal typewriter that had belonged to mom. a letter reversing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, little triumphs, tiny disasters, bulletins of adolescents dramatize an ionized. when we, the news barged into this home theater.

she was raised in humble circumstances in the bronx, graduated from princeton and yale, went on to serve as the assistant district attorney. she had a "private practice" litigating property practicings and was living there. there was a time when democrats chose one nominee. she then served on the district court until 1998 when she was elevated to the second circuit by president clinton. one interesting thing in introducing one thing is that the president has focused, and the white house as a whole have focused on her experience and quality cations, which i think represents a change from what president obama spoke about during the campaign. you will recall when asked what quality he would look for the president said -- candidate obama said -- empathy. it was interesting because empathy is one of those words that on its face certainly has a neutral or favorable connotation. who could oppose the justice who has empathy? but what was interesting is that he was using it in a careful sense or signaling to his supporters he would appoint a justice who would reach certain outcomes, liberal outco

news legal correspondent and we have linda with "the new york times," now a scholar in residence at yale law school. we have john mcginnis. welcome back. he is a professor of law at northwestern university of school of law and knows the justice department from the inside, a much published scholar. we also have well-known to you a washington attorney who has argued, i think, 52 cases before the supreme supreme court that'a record but certainly puts him in the big league of practitioners before that body. i know my colleagues feel as i do in thanking the fourth circuit, chief justice williams, judge neirmeyer and the other judges of the circuit for their hospitality. i can't thank the staffpeople too much for having helped us with the arrangements, so they have made us comfortable and so that the panel doesn't assume your expectations it is not because the staff didn't do their best. we are now in the fourth year of the so-called roberts court. there is the convention of calling the supreme court by the name of the chief justice that is sometimes a little bit deceptive. we have every reaso

my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend the school year since he had gone away to college i wrote him on a small black metal typewriter that had belonged to mom, a letter rehearsing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, little triumphs, tiny disasters, bulletins of adolescence dramatized and ironyized. one week the news barged into this home theater. opponents of the vietnam war had called for a nationwide moratorium or a day of protests on october 15th. the moratorium looked to be a big thing on college campuses where boycotts of classes were planned. some kids in my high school decided to join in. i thought they were wrong. i also thought there was something phony about the exercise, simultaneously preening and copycat. the moratorium at my high school helper considered dissidents but they were tagging along with a national movement, mimicking their elders. i decided to put counter-posters on the school walls. i imagine myself as a latter day martin luther taping rather than hammering up cr