Created by americas top Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. And now we are live on book tv with author and legal analyst Jeffery Toobin. He joins us on our indepth program for the next three hours to talk about his book and to answer your questions. Mister Jeffery Toobin is the author of many books including the old too close to call in his most recent, american heiress area. Toobin, welcome to cspan2s in depth. The authors of seven books and counting including your most recent book american heiress, wild side of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst and i want to begin where you end the book. Youwrote this without her cooperation. I did quite how was that . Guest there were several things different about this book then my other book. This is the first book ive written that was really atthe border of journalism in history. All the other books that i wrote, i had sort of covered the underlying story in real time
Welcome to cspan2 in depth. The author of seven books and counting. Including the most recent, the kidnapping crimes and the trial of patty hearst. I want to begin where you ended the book. End of the book. You wrote this without her cooperation. I didthat . Guest there were several things that were different. This was the first book that was at the border of journalism and history. All the other books that i wrote i had sort of covered the underlining story in real time and then wrote about it. This is something i was alive in the 1970s but i was a kid. I didnt follow the stuff so it was starting from scratch in terms of my research. In particular theres 150 about the army and its trials that bill harris one of the survivors had and i managed to obtain access to that so i knew i had a great deal of material no one had seen before but obviously to answer your question, i would have liked to have talked to patty. She made clear through intermediaries and then indirectly she wanted no pa
I decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and oh brain that life should be thinking about. To give my step in expanding my own horizons, i can say thats one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself here can see that book tv once to know what you are reading this summer. Treatise here answer at book tv or posted on our facebook page. Cspan, crete about americas cabletelevision companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. C1 Jeffrey Toobin, welcome to cspan to indepth. The author of indepth and counting . Host including your most recent book, american heiress the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst. I want to begin where you in the book. You wrote this without her cooperation. Guest i did and there were several things different in my other books. This was the first bookk i had written that was really the border of journalism in history. All of the other b
They only had one suspect theyd in tell the American People the rose and others suspect and chairman dempsey and general clapper head of the director of National Intelligence had both told the president they couldnt be sure they had a case against him that it is not a slam dunk for what we know to be in the arsenal so i dont like not telling the truth the reason why what he may not have done i dont know why gsa the story is told by the white house is like liable you cannot get too close in Congress Today he is hated like hiller. I will take a second to say he is fighting a lifeanddeath more if those isis people get in power he and his wife and children will be hung up like mussolini in the square yes uses beryl bombs but i know a country that use that for seven years in which our National Security was not at stake. It was as. And no we use it because it is cheaper a barrel bob is 63 gallons and it is cheaper than to drop of 500pound bomb. At first we did i wonder about al gore morality
The word between your formulation and petitioners formulation that says this is substantive because it did away with mandatory life imprisonment . Youre articulating it slightly different. Tell me what you see as the difference and why your articulation. Justice sotomayor. I dont think there is substantive day light between. Petitioners use and ours. It meant in treating it as a category. I think sums up the reality of what is happening. We broke it out into its Component Parts because i think it facilitates the analysis of it to understand that miller does have a procedural component. Sentencing courts must now consider the mitigating characteristics of age. But it also and more fundamentally, in our view, contains a substantive component that required a change in the law. Now, the change here was expanding the range of outcomes. Previously when this court has analyzed substantive changes in the law there have been changes that restricted the form of outcomes, say, for example, in Jus