he credits his sunday schoolteachers and his high school history teacher in morristown the, new jersey, for nurturing a sense of responsibility and a love of the democratic process. so with that, i'd like to welcome a self-described nerd who created a list and changed the way we buy and sell things. as he put it to fortune magazine, i didn't think i would start a very successful company. it has worked out much better than i thought. [laughter] and now i can put my money where my mouth is. craig, thank you so much for being here today. if you'll join me up here, we can get our discussion started. [applause] so it's so nice to see you here in washington, welcome. >> it's my pleasure. i've been here a fair amount in the recent past. i spent a year in a symbolic role at the department of veterans affairs. i was the, quote, nerd in residence. [laughter] unquote. >> what did that entail? >> you know, they didn't need my help with technology at all. they already knew what they were doing pretty well. the help they needed was just talking about it better. but i seriously am a nerd. that's not

a few years ago in a speech in morristown, new jersey, the late justice scalia said this, the reason that america's basic freedom has endured for 200 years is not because of the amendments to the constitution but because of the constitution itself. justice scalia said that. every ten-horn dictator in the world, every president for life has the bill of rights. that's not what makes us free. if it did, we might as well live in zimbabwe but you wouldn't want to live in most countries of the world that have a bill of rights. what has made us free, justice scalia said, is our constitution. think of the word constitution, it means structure. that's why scalia continued, america's framers debated the structure of the federal government, the genius of the american constitutional system is the dispersal of power. once power is centralized in one person, justice scalia said, or one part of government, the bill of rights is just words on paper. john mccain understood that. he sensed that especially a nation as fragmented as ours has become and this internet democracy in which we live today, esp

we are doing now lie from the courthouse in morristown, pennsylvania. rick? >> sandra, you watch bill cosby walk in at about 8:30 this morning. possibly his last walk outside as a free man. he ignored questions including whether he was ready to go to jail. he will find that out sometime today. the d.a. yesterday requested a sentence of five to ten years, the defense asked for house arrest. it will be up to judge stephen o'neill to decide if the elderly comedian winds up behind bars after his conviction in april on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and taking advantage in his home in 2004. before sentencing, he will have to decide if cosby should be designated a sexually violent predator. a board testified that he had an uncontrollable urge to violate young woman and would likely do it again if given the opportunity. today, his attorneys will call their own psychologist to refute that claim preeti will be given a chance to speak in his own defense. we don't know if you will. the guidelines call for a sentence somewhere between two to thr