It gets stranger and stranger. Stay with me. It is basically weird. On tuesday, the senate rejected a u. S. Treaty aimed at protecting the rights of disabled people around the world. It is modeled on the americans for disability act. 125 other countries ratified it but in the full senate 38 republicans voted no leaving it 5 votes short of ratification. What we learned today is that some of the very same senators actually supported the treaty before they voted against it. Some even pledged their support publicly. Senator roy blunt of missouri was a flip flopper and Kay Bailey Hutchison and jerry moran of kansas. They all declined to come on the program. Theyre silent. Senator moran was a cosponsor of the measure to ratify the treaty and put a press release back in may proclaiming support for the treaty. I want to show you something else. Heres senator moran with former senator bob dole in june. Dole, a war veteran, a listening time supporter of disability rights and advocate of this tre
Traditions, how do you resolve the differences in what role does the difference between the traditions play in assessing the original meaning of the constitution . Well, like Justice Clarence thomas i take the view that the declaration of independence has relevance to the interpretation of the constitution. I know thats a controversial issue that many of my colleagues would exclude the declaration of this not having anything to do with the interpreting any of the bill of rights or whatever. And i take it from the description in the declaration, some of which i quoted that these are principles that have recognizable parentage. I derive from those passages the story based on the natural law heritage. But again as i mentioned in my remarks, theres natural law and natural rights. The overlap is probably 95 . Its more of a scientific approach that has been popular among many philosophers. I dont regard it will as confrontational. I dont think we planned it but these last three questions fro
Vice president dick cheney and his longterm cardiologist Jonathan Reiner talk about mr. Cheneys history with Heart Disease and defenses in cardiology over the past several decades. Mr. Cheney suffered his first of five heart attacks when he was 37. He had a heart transplant in 2012. The to discuss the book for about one hour next on booktv. Tonights program will consist of an interview conducted by barbara cochran, president of the National Press Club Journalism institute, and the hurley chair and Public Affairs journalism at the Missouri School of journalism. With mr. Cheney and doctor reiner followed by a brief q a. We invite you to purchase the book if you havent already done so, for sale. And each of the books have been, has a presigned late with it so you get a signed copy. They wont be able to sign tonight. As long as he asserted at the highest levels of business and government, Vice President dick cheney has been one of the worlds most prominent now for the first time ever, chen
Complete disclosure of the health of any you know constitutional officer in the public. Maybe someone else put up more and i dont know who it was. Roosevelt, fdr also had cancer in his latter days in office. Then theres all the discussion about jack kennedy and all of his health problems. I think our track record is pretty good in that regard and i think we put out the right amount of information. In the end you can substitute medical judgment with a political judgment especially where the Vice President is concerned. We provided he had full and complete knowledge of my situation. We have a situation where i didnt keep anything from him and i gave him all the reasons why and he went ahead and did it anyway. So i dont, im reluctant to say that somehow we have to have a medical board set up so you get a stamp on your forehead that you are certified healthy enough to be Vice President. The other point i guess i would make is you could have a very Strong Healthy 40yearold and might have be
All by myself anymore were you trapped in an airport with nowhere to go . The lipsyncing on the wait for a flight to las vegas. He made it himself. And he joins us live, on gma. Maybe it was a rain delay. Rain drops we saw on our cameras with that passenger, facing the dreaded cancellation, the last flight out. Cant get it. You will not believe how she was able to do this all by himself. Just him and his ipad. Just incredible. Thats one way to pass the time. That is. We will talk to him later this morning. We have a lot to get to. Beginning with the stunning election rocking washington. Eric cantor, beaten by a longshot tea party candidate. The first house leader to lose a primary like that. Abcs jon karl is following the fallout. Good morning, jon. Reporter this is a political earthquake. Eric cantor was widely considered to be the next speaker of the house. Now, she stands defeated, beate by a virtually unknown tea party challenger. Thank you. Reporter a stunned eric cantor, one of t