The money. One phase of the case centers around wealthy friend herb vederman. In Court Prosecutors called him a human atm machine for the 11 term congressman and his family hoping the powerful washington insider could land him an ambassadorship from the obama white house. Prosecutors say he paid off the College Tuition and gambling bills of fattahs son chaka jr. And disguised 18,000 he gave over for a dummy car purchase used by fattah and his wife to close on a Vacation Home in the poconos. Late today congressman fattah spoke briefly with reporters. I think this has been a good first day and well begin again in the morning. Reporter fattahs lawyer told the jury of one africanamerican and 11 white that is vederman was a rich good friend of fattahs and did nothing that rises to the level of bribery. Fattahs lawyer dismissed two of fattahs Political Consultants who already pleaded guilty hoping for light sentences in exchange for testifying against chaka fattah. Mark lee told the jury to
President of the university of pennsylvania talked to book tv about her latest book the spirit of compromise. She also talked about her role as the president of the university. This interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania and philadelphia is part of booktvs college series, and its about 20 minutes. You are watching book tv on cspan2, and one of the things we like to do one book tv is visit college campuses. We can talk to professors who are also authors showcasing books that you may not know about otherwise. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week and we are joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann coming and she is the call author of this book, the spirit of compromise why government demands it and campaigning underlines it. President gutmann come are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if
And all of that thinking to have shown through the world. Its what people but they dont realize how much we have to do remembering as a judge to every decision that you make there is a winner and there is a loser. People forget all losers because if they like the decision they think they are smart. [laughter] if they dont like what weve done they dont think we are smart. They think we are lazy. How could they get this wrong or they think we are doing it based on policy. We want to do it our way he and its so far from the truth. It is a skill. You are trained to look at issues in a legal way. Its based not on your personal likes or dislikes but on the tools interpretation so the process can seem boring to an outsider, to someone is completely. And the other half were interacting with the public. The Supreme Court gets visitors from around the world. I have met with School Children as young as second grade, grammar school, high school, college, professional, not just small school. Studen
You are watching booktv on cspan 2 and one of the things we like to do is visit college campuses. We contact you professors also authors and showcase books that she may not know about otherwise. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week and were joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann. Shes the author of this book, the spirit of compromise why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. President gutmann, are we a politically compromised . Guest we were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country. But if you recall i know you werent there then, but if you recall historically speaking our Founding Fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution. They were as polarized as any set of americans have been throughout our country and our history. They were proand antislavery and the compromise. So yes, we were founded in compromise, that today compromi
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