Welcome to the National Press club. I covered as a very young reporter, a baby good evening. Welcome to the National Press club. I covered watergate as a very young reporter, a baby reporter, they just let me come in diapers. I covered from the hearings to the trials. I am especially elated to be here this evening i went like to welcome cspan and the cspan audience. This is being filmed for cspans American History tv. Our program tonight marks the 50th anniversary of the saturday night massacre that ultimately led to president nixons resignation in the scandal. It was a significant event in the nations political history to say the least. The National Press club played an Important Role on it, special prosecutor cox, who i would later be lucky enough to become friends with held his News Conference here on the afternoon of october 20th, right in the clubs ballroom. It was at that Historic Press conference that he insisted that president nixon turn over the tapes. We will see a clip later
good morning. i m wolf blitzer in washington, and this is special live coverage of the funeral of former supreme court justice sandra day o connor, the first woman to serve is on america s highest court. the service over at the washington national cathedral is set to start right at the top of the hour. president biden left delaware for washington, d.c., earlier this morning. he is set to arrive at the funeral any moment now, we are told. and he is going to be delivering a eulogy along with chief justice john roberts. o connor first met them in 1981, and roberts helped her to prepare for her confirmation where biden was the top person on the judiciary committee. and she earned in 1952 a law degree from stanford university in two years, but despite graduating top of the class, her gender kept her from joining a law firm, so she opened up her own law firm. she was mostly known for being appointed to the high court in 1981, but she is quickly one of the most influential justice
this is a culmination of an anonymously long and contentious debate gives it a sense about the importance of this decision as you look back over 50 years. it is profoundly important. justice mentioned in his opinion, that decision roe v wade is primarily response over the culture war that ensued. it did a normative damage to the cultural view get these scenes. was justice byron white said from the dissent from that decision it was a raw exercise of judicial power. that is quite the beginning of judicial activism. the most extreme expression of judicial activism. yet we find rights and the law that don t exist, are not really supportable by legislation. that to set up a long friending 50 year battle in the united states. what happened to happen there s no that is going to change. what has changed here i think is that with this opinion the majority have established legitimacy of supreme court and the fact it does have to adhere to the text of the constitution. cannot make up
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 7th. we have important new reporting this morning on the status of the gun safety talks in washington. negotiators met late into the night, and it seems there are areas of possible agreement. narrow agreement, but agreement. word of a measure that might change how people younger than 21 buy semiautomatic weapons. both the killers in buffalo and uvalde were 18, they used semiautomatic ar-15-style weapons. this would not be a ban on sales to those under 21, which the president and others have called for, but something of an adjustment and we will have details on that in just a moment. since friday, gun violence has killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens more in 13 mass shootings in the united states. awful scenes at graduation pop particulars, night club, tainment district and strip mall. let s go to lauren fox on capitol hill to get the latest on what is being disc
a trial of refs wearing body cams in adult grassroots footy will be doubled after they were used in around 500 matches and no instance of abuse were recorded. and one for the swifties taylor swift has been named time magazine s person of the year to cap off a stellar 2023. the star said she is the proudest and happiest that she s ever felt. time now to leave you with 10 seconds of teddy. the teacher s pet, this assistant labradoodle, helps a teacher in london who had a stroke. you re all caught up. bye for now. voiceover: this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. the framers of the american constitution harboured few illusions about human nature, and that s why they invested so much significance in this place the us supreme court, the ultimate check on executive and legislative power. my guest today was the first woman to be appointed as a justice in this court. for 25 years, she