Page 21 - Razor Sharp News Today

>> joining us now by phone, joan biskupic. you know the history of the court, lets talk about john paul stevens, his legacy. >> you know, anderson, just what pam said right now about how razor sharp he was, i just talked to him about a month ago. he had just finished his latest book, and he still wanted to be so much a part of the dialogue in america. and i think one thing he did was offer exhibit a to the kind of promise that chief justice john roberts has said, there are no such thing as obama...

The way for george w. bushs presidency writing, quote, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear and as the nations confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law. >> what are some of the other areas where the court ruled in a way you wish it really hadnt? >> do we have just an hour? >> reporter: stevens also disagreed with his liberal colleagues when the court ruled burning an american flag was considered protected free speech. he said, quote, censioning the public desecration o...

Op-ed calling for the repeal of the second amendment. he was 97 years old at the time but john paul stevens mind and his words were still razor sharp. >> that was pamela brown. thank you so much for that. joining me on the phone jeffrey toobin, cnns chief legal analyst. i appreciate you joining us. you know, we just saw you interviewed justice john paul stevens and not many americans got to see him up close like that. what was he like? what were your impressions? >> he was really part of a vanis...

Considered protected free speech. he said, quote, sanctioning the public desecration of the flag will tarnish its value both for those who cherish the ideas for which it waves and those who desire to don the robes of martyrdom by burning it. >> i dont think anybody who heard him read that dissent, the passion with which he looked at the flag, could think about the flag the same way. whatever you thought about the legal issue. >> reporter: on the bench he was known as a soft-spoken midwesterner w...

>> do we have just an hour? >> reporter: stevens also disagreed with his liberal colleagues when the court ruled burning an american flag was considered protected free speech. he said, quote, censioning the public desecration of the flag will tarnish its values. >> i dont think anybody who heard him read that dissent, the passion with which he looked at the flag and what it meant for him could really ever think about the american flag the same way you look at it whatever you think about the lega...

After a school shooting in florida, he pinned an op-ed calling for the repeal of the second amendment. he was 97 years old at the time. but john paul stevens mind and his words were still razor sharp. >> joining us now by phone, joan biskupic. you know the history of the court, lets talk about john paul stevens, his legacy. >> you know, anderson, just what pam said right now about how razor sharp he was, i just talked to him about a month ago. he had just finished his latest book, and he still w...

Heather: negotiators say a deal could come by this weekend. the migrants on the southern border are asking to go home. group of people house in a shelter near texas want to turn back to central america and facing 3 months stuck on the mexican border, border patrol agents near the eagle pass crossing are only accepting a dozen asylum claims per day. tributes pouring in across the nation following the death of the longest-serving congressman in history, democrat john dingell passing away at the ag...

What day is it mike? ha ha ha ha! leslie, guess what today is? its hump day. whoot whoot! ronny, how happy are folks who save hundred of dollars switching to geico? id say happier than a camel on wednesday. hump day!!! get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. jillian: welcome back. a look at top headlines this will become attributes pouring in across the nation following the death of the longest-serving congressman in history. democrat john dingell passing aw...

And his friends have to make their way to the hide all carefully its in the mountains near the border with they say the police could. destroy their camp. the group has thousands of kilometers behind them knowledge just a few hundred metres separate them from europe that. fence this man from. deep cuts there from his attempts to storm the border. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food im the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother thats why i left. i have...

My father is dead my mother has nothing not even food im the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother thats why i left. i have been travelling for two years since leaving guinea nol they are stuck here with some fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. the fence is here to stop them its eight kilometers long and fitted with razor sharp wire along with the territory of this is the only other border in africa on the other side. from the...