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Interrogation and miranda rights is part of it. all this being in the middle. and you know the person in the middle of these, lindsey graham, but to get this out in public, it will start the left versus the white house fight on the issue of miranda. >> it will be a battle. >> it is going to be a battle, and it is not the battle the administration wants to get in at that stage of the game. it is a lose-lose even if they win. >> norah odonnell, thank you so much. mort zuckerman, thank you as well....

To handle the war on terror. and the people who want to blow up american planes and things in times square, so we are going to vote for him, because he cant play this like a cartoon. like this is -- like this is the easiest thing in the world to take care of. it is harder than making a speech. >> he never said it was easy. >> yes, he did. he was so contentious of bush and cheney. it is just like with the miranda issue a month ago, conservatives were shredding the constitution and blah, blah. now...

>> it is convenient. theres no huge paper trail in terms of her decisions they can go after. >> i do this the rotc will be a huge issue for conservatives only because this has been such a symbolic battle for such a long time. of course, willie geist, you were reporting on friday, and i guess erroneously, betty white was going to run for supreme court justice. >> my sources at the saloon told me that. if you are looking at a balance sheet, we talk about her lack of experience. on the one hand, sh...

Criticism likely to develop among elena kagan, that she tried to ban military recruiters from harvard. they say she never did that. they moved the recruiters from one office to another. she did submit a friend to the supreme court against dont ask, dont tell. >> you know, obviously, this is going to be an issue because she wrote a letter saying how she was grieved by rotc coming on the campus. i dont know the exact wording. i dont think it is enough to kill her candidacy, but the two reasons we ...

Harvard and rose to be dean at the harvard law school and was the presidents nominee to the solicitor general. she got 61 votes then. and now if confirmed shell be the fourth woman to serve on the supreme court. the third on the current court. i should tell you, the white house is not confirming this. pete williams, the justice correspondent confirmed it elsewhere. the white house is very quiet this morning wanting to announce this on its own terms. >> are they expecting any battle with elena ka...

Politics here. >> yes. theres no question whoever obama put on the court who is actually not a conservative was going to promote opposition among conservatives and republicans. they are going to find something in the wrord to make a political issue out of. both chuck and savannah are right, i dont think they have a hard time confirming her. i think shell get more criticism from the left than she does from the right. a lot of people from the left think she is a blank slate when it comes to consti...

Courthouse. because we dont have hundreds of court decisions to look through, and people will be focusing really hard on a handful of articles, that wont be nearly as satisfying, shes written on first-amendment topics, administrative law topics, even there shes been cautious. theres some sense in which shes put together a resumé and paper trail custom made for a confirmation hearing because shes done almost nothing controversial and made a lot of friends in a lot of places. >> we have been brin...

Supreme court upheld the solid amendment. that will be one issue. the other one is that she is essentially a judicial novice. not since 1972, justices rehnquist and powell, has be there been somebody who never spent a day in a judicial robe. they are looking for somebody outside the judicial monastery. on the other hand, this is not somebody who had some kind of mediocre or average life. this is somebody who had, as i said, the pedigree path through harvard, the ivy leagues. i think they will be...