why is what you re doing necessary? it s amazing the supreme court is really important institution. everybody got to agree with that to the healthcare decision to affirmative action and same sex marriage. yet with all the coverage of congress and the president, there was no place that was paying complete attention to what the justice was doing. why do you think there s so little interest on the part of the general media and the supreme court? it s not a very sexy place. every once in a while it does something incredibly interesting. there is a core press corps. the major newspapers pay a lot of attention to it. it s so complicated when it comes to lot of the technical legal issues. it s hard for the public to stay engaged. you applied to how many law schools in the beginning? i guess about, sad time to remember, half a dozen or so. they thought it would be better if i pursued other opportunities. but, i had my step mother s may be second does cousin adjunct facu
the answer to the question of, how do you get them to play by the same rules is, you talk in terms of rules, not the two concepts. how to the top brass respond to you? is a long tradition of them tried to slap me down. two years ago, they tried to take away give me an official reprimand and take away a paste step.pay i had to invoke the office of special counsel to come and investigate it. i am not allowed to say what the bottom line was, but i was willing to accept what they put in play said the offer, but office was not allowed to attend a court. the answer is, they don t like it. they seem to have learned from that experience. now i have seen their official response to, what you think a prof. fleming, and they say what they say is my point. we re a long tradition of producing leaders for this country and i say, what you just said is the problem i m trying to address. carolina line, republican. fleming, understand your position, sir, that he does continue to do a good
then, a look at preparing families with active duty military members. randy plunkett. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. last week, the senate judiciary meaty voted 13-5 to approve a border security bill. next, we will show you the fifth and final day of debate, where the committee chairman offered and withdrew an amendment to allow gay americans to sponsor their foreign border partners. this is one hour and 15 minutes. would like to turn to an issue very important to me and too many americans who are suffering from discrimination based on who they love. there isments to show more than one way to take discrimination out of our broken system. it is called amendment number seven, before the committee. the experience of americans torn apart by a current immigration system is heartbreaking. i have been married for more than 50 years. i cannot fathom how i would feel if my government refused to , or made a law discriminating me based on who i love. not all states, but in ju
this the president will moore, oklahoma on this sunday, may 26. it is also commencement season. today, we are going to share with you some of the remarks delivered to the class of 2013 and get your comments on the message to these graduates. as always, you can join in on the conversation you can also join us on twitter or facebook and send us an e- journal@c-span.org. let s show you some headlines, following, oklahoma, the devastating tornadoes outside of oklahoma city. this from the oklahoman and from the norman transcript the president traveling to the region later today. during commencement season, now defenser and secretary chuck hagel delivering the commencement address at the west point academy. he told the graduates that sexual assault would be a profound betrayal of their oath to the army. secretary hagel challenge the class of 2013 west point graduates to be a generation of leaders who stop internal issues like sexual assault, a holism, and suicide, which
you be watching for in the weeks ahead? it will be interesting to see how this backlog, the amount of attention on it has been almost unprecedented in weeks and months and it s almost as if the v.a. tries to come up with a new deppingsstration of how committed it is. but before long, the dates are going to come due for whether these goals and deadlines are being met. so we re going to have some measurable data where we ll be able to gauge just how effective some of these steps the v.a. has been taken whether they re working or not. thank you both. ppreciate your time. next arks look at counter terrorism policy first from president obama at national defense university and then from republican senators lindsey graham, kelly ayot, john mccain and sax by cham bliss. and then commencement addresses from members of congress. next, president obama outlines his counter terrorism policy. he talks about using drone strikes overseas against al qaeda, the guantanamo bay detention c