Condolences. Many of us are discussing Justice Ginsburg today but few knew her as well as you and it all began in 1981 on an elevator ride. Explain. I was a young law clerk, court of appeals, she was a judge. She was coming down from an exercise class. She was always exercising. We were in the sell vaelevator completely silent. Just to break the ice because i was so sbintimidated. I blurted out what first came to my find, what ooper peras have seen recently . We just bonded over a shared love of opera. We continues that for a year and continues that over 30 years. It expanded and the friendship is one of the greatest blessings of my life. Is it fair to say in a way she credited you with the notoriety that she achieved because you wrote about her for the new republic when many didnt know the name Ruth Bader Ginsburg . Well, i was just a footnote in that important confirmation battle. As hard as it is to believe at the time, when Justice White retired in 1993, Justice Ginsburg wasnt at t
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Lawyer. Later former secretary Janet Napolitano talks about education policy. Next a discussion on the impact of the splooem Supreme Court decision on the can traception mandate in the Health Care Law. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Joining us now, pro choice america, their president , welcome. Thank you for having me. We are here to talk in part about the decisions made by the Supreme Court last week. First of all with hobby lobby, what happened . What is your perspective . My perspective is i am disturbed. What we saw were five male judges essentially say that discrimination against women is not discrimination at all. What happened is that the court decided in favor of a private corporation saying that our religious beliefs trump the civic doubt we have to provide comprehensive health care for all of our employees. This was coming on the heels of there are administration and the country acknowledging if you are truly a religious institution, are you exempt from this. Yo
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Consistent with National Security concerns. During the process of preparing this report, we sought and obtained declassification of facts about the still highly classified program in order to allow us to put in context how the program operates. And clarify some public misconceptions. As a result, over 100 new facts were declassified by the government to provide needed context for the programs operation. I want to extend the boards appreciation to the personnel at the office of director of national intelligence, the department of justice, nsa, fbi, and cia who worked constructively with the board in this process. Its the most comprehensive public description of how the section 702 program operates and we believe this description will advance the publics understanding of the program. Turning back to the report, it was adopted unanimously. The board also unanimously offers ten recommendations to strengthen privacy safeguards, and to address these concerns. They are in a number of categori