Families. Cspan2 will have live coverage of his comments. After tonights remarks, the president leaves for a weeklong asian trip stopping in japan, the philippines, malaysia, and south korea. Those visits were originally planned for last october, but canceled due to the government shutdown. Back in washington, governor Chris Christie speaks at the new Jersey Chamber of commerce congressional dinner tonight. Our live coverage starts at 7 15 p. M. And at 8 00 p. M. , three prominent whistle blowers, daniel heburg, who broke the pentagon paper story, thomas drake, a former National Security Agency Senior executive who was prosecuted as a spy, and a former Justice Department ethics whistleblower all talk about challenges they face exposing wrongdoing. Heres a brief portion of tonights program. Snoweden snowden, i believe, looked at these examples, looked at chelsea manning, look at aage and realized he had to be out of the country if he was going to put out this amount of information and b
What you couldnt and i couldnt. Thats why the process matters. You have both sides weighing in on significant issue. Its the largest Domestic Initiative in our history. Sitting at the table working for it you think about the Civil Rights Act and how it passed, that was bipartisan. Social security and medicare, how to gratify the constitution, giving the women are the right to vote. It is because the United States congresss willingness to work on landmark initiatives and that is not happening with the Affordable Care act. It should have been a process in which everybody was engaged on both sides. I wont get into the why it didnt, but unfortunately it didnt. Ultimately, people are paying the price today. Thats why i think so many people are saying, you know what, i prefer gridlock. With so many problems of the implementation, they say. Not that there wouldnt be as your problems with an initiative of this kind, but it would be less awesome because you have more interest to make sure it wo
Cost is always going to be an issue. It is pretty straightforward and pretty simple. Dollars how many of you all in journalism say follow the money. It is about the money, and people are going to make choices and make decisions about whether or not to do things the cousin of how it affects their bottom line. E need to understand that we need to also understand that sometimes it is going to cost them money if they do not make these changes, and sometimes they can make changes that improve safety and improved efficiency. It is all about having a dialogue and making sure people understand that. It does not have to be an eitheror, that people will be driven by money. Our own government is driven by costbenefit analysis. There are a lot of recommendations we have issued that have not gone anywhere because the costand if it does benefit doesost not support them. It does come down to money. With respect to the relationship, we have to have a balance of people who understand the industry, who
You have it wrong. These 54 decisions where she is on one side thats because the press focuses on the 25 of the heady cages, the constitutional cases. Most of what we are doing is trying to interpret dense statutes congress passed, very difficult to parse. On those cases, there isnt the usual lineup the press expects to see in the mostwatched cases. So we agree on many procedure cases. Not always. You got one wrong last year. [laughter] and also, i have to Say Something else. We both care about the way opinions are crafted. Its not easy to write an opinion. I think you care very much about how it is said and said why. The way we say it is quite different. One reason we became such good friends on the d c circuit was we were both former academics. Harry edwards was another academic on the court. But in academia, when you wrote a law review article, you would circulate it to your colleagues and i would make comments, helpful comments, not just this is wrong. But theres an additional poin
Against democracy. Its flawsble that it does. We have rejected that view. Communists were entitled to say this democratic system does not work, lets get rid of it. That took a good while for that idea, because there were laws against anarchy and edition. It takes us perhaps i think to the 1964 ruling of the Supreme Court on the New York Times v. Sullivan. You spoke about libel. In this particular ruling, very specific regulation that is the wrong word but concepts are written into this ruling. Would like to read what Justice Brennan has said because i think it deserves to be quoted as often as possible. Public discussion is a political duty, and it must be uninhibited, robust, and wide open and may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. You were mentioning this in a sense a moment ago. I am wondering, Justice Scalia, if this kind of an issue were brought before the court today, at that time, in 1964, i believe the co