characterize the current court in any way. i hope one day to join it. and they said you re not political, right? i appreciate it. okay, chief political correspondent candy crowley, she s political, she s funny. she would be an interesting dinner conversation for sure. her or me? i think actually, she d be really interesting if you could actually get to what she s about. after her comments yesterday, i d like for her and for you and me to all go to dinner on christmas at a chinese restaurant. exactly. it says a little something about a supreme court nominee that when you come out of the hearings that what you most remember is on christmas eve and the question came up because that s when we had the plane that went over to detroit that had the would-be bomber on it.
tweet, this happened before, for example, i talked to one democrat rank and file senator who said something that really infuriated the leadership it got to them in a nano second, brought into them in a leadership meeting and it changed the internal dynamics. i use it not just to give information out, i also use it to get information. so i ll put up sort of a provocative question on facebook. and people will respond to that. and give me all kinds of ideas. and sort of threads and things to think about that i never even thought about before. so i sort of use it to gather information, sort of the voice of the people, writ small. especially breaking news stories like the gulf story. you tweet it, you read other peerjs you follow it. it s a great way to do it. let s move on to those kagan hearings where a lot of people were tweeting. 18-plus hours in the chair. dana, you were there for most of it, if not all of it. this is elaiena kagan and linds graham talking about an evolving issue i
chicago, lives in a parallel universe and we don t talk about it enough here in i mean, i can t believe we re not following this trial more closely or mark kirk more closely because it touches on politics in d.c. so much. if this were a new york trial, this would be gripping the media and the nation. so a huge disconnect between what the obama administration has been saying and what is coming out in testimony. the chicago papers are all over it. the context before in terms of the kagan hearings and the pentagon recruitment thing. people forget. because most people think of blagojevich as this national joke because we learned about him when he was first under legal promise. he was the governor of illinois. he had presidential aspirations and was a huge player in 2002, obama got together with him and backed him. if you were a senator from illinois like barack obama or a congressman from illinois like rahm emanuel that was your governor. you had to deal with him. they knew
certainly right to say that a supreme court justice should not have a team in the fight, that they are supposed to be a neutral umpire, but that s been the sort of tenor of how things are going today, andrea. pete, i was curious. i read a washington post analysis of this term of the court and the court having wrapped up this week coincident, of course, with the kagan hearings. perhaps not gotten as much attention as many people would like. but it says that roberts has now become he s moved to become the most decisive person, more in the majority than in fact justice kennedy because he has in fact moderated himself somewhat and is joining the liberal majority on some occasions. do you agree with that analysis? yes, that s true. he joined with the majority in a case on whether it s proper to pursue life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders. that a big surprise, and i think one of the things that s been kind of odd about this term is that we have had, like we did with t
absolutely, i believe the fight in terrorism begins with fighting the ideology. i will keep going on. reporter: no word yet from those government agencies as to whether they ll take mosab hassan yousef up on his offer to help. jonathan hunt live in san diego. thank you very much. whoa. the kagan hearings. the supreme court nominee now in the middle of her third day of testimony and questions. already the judiciary committee is chairman is predicting elena kagan will be confirmed to the supreme court. we could have told you that a week ago. early today she side steps openings to criticize the court saying sure everything there is acting in good faith. shannon bream covers the court for us. the harvard military recruitment issue came up again. this is the point that they re