Spec. I think theyre very capable to get the job done. I dont think any of us know about korea i dont know where they are to develop a nuclear weapon. I dont know exactly what their intentions are with the Ballistic Missile strike capabilities but we know where they are moving toward we have to be prepared for that eventuality as well. Dave mitchell leaving great detail all the preparations is something to Pay Attention to every day. Do they have the missile capable to reach the u. S. Right now . I am saying this from newspaper articles. But whether they have capability certainly want to reach hawaii. That is what we are worried about. Of a joint force command in the event of the apparent attack could you give us some idea . The discussion i would not call it a debate as discussion involves the secretary of the error force the commander of u. S. Strategic command the the voices with policy experts from National Security experts. As we try to help commandandcontrol architecture with a greater Intelligence Community to respond appropriately as a nation if it became that space had to keep systems resilient or urd develop redundancy or for Data Communications as a whole enterprise or as a fighting command for all the pieces are there just to make the authorities are clear. Can you say with members of the Intelligence Community commanding military assets . I dont see that happening but there will be a clear set of authorities by all people who participate that visibility of what the owners are doing with any future scenario. That new references to get that closer coordination and collaboration. Is in response to commanders in the region. Can you talk about those requirements . Part of that initiative with respect to Rotational Forces and training exercises. These allow us to trade and operates in the european terrain and it is in that vein. It is air to air capability. We have capabilities now molt operating in a multiple type scenario to train sidebyside that is with this is gore. About this time last year can you free up enough with how many more you are looking into the career field . But the ioc day is never a concern it is full operational capability. What about between now and 2021 . With the top line of people we dont have people so for ioc data is not a problem. We will get to ioc. I am with the error force times. What about the helm of the pilots are supposed to be wearing during the of 35 reports putting the cost at 400,000 and 800,000 including some memos saying some of those capabilities are not there. So what is the actual cost of the helmet is that adequate for the capabilities is providing . I dont have that we can provide that. I have read the same article i dont know the specific cost. The new generation three homage has just been delivered. So with a time line after to determine a complete the final cost is in production it is the interpretation is Situational Awareness to call a helmet we have to come up with a new word. [laughter] there has been some concerns about the pilots that they might be getting too complicated. Is there any concern . From the time i came into this job three years ago not a single one said i will use it. But they adapt very quickly. Said department of defense is receiving a great deal of attention is there any new developments on that front . Yes. We will be announcing to put out guidelines later today to open the services they can provide to open this up to civilians in the error force. Of course, right now it is restricted to military personnel that are victims of Sexual Assault to get referrals with the right agencies and so forth so that is a new development. Can i do one thing i never had a chance before . She has never watched a press conference and being able to introduce her in the Pentagon Press room. [laughter] these are the people who tell the story of the department of defense. Thank you. [inaudible] no sir. [laughter] that is classified. What about the russian targets with that concept . No sir. [laughter] to give a silver star or award . Not know it is combat action. Earlier based on reports weve heard 700,000 air strikes. Could you put context that is maybe one out of six or one out of eight missions during airstrikes. We heard earlier it is one out of four. Could you tell us what is the difference . Some of the 48,000 is tinkers there is so large number and a number where people take off with weapons on board to conduct a strike and we call that dynamic targeting. We did that in afghanistan and a buyback. Used that in libya. It is not a new approach. Remember we are at war with iraq we dont want to drop bombs it is permanently. So we have to have the target to make sure we dont hurt anyone. If we can get to that in time, i dont know either way to approach that. It is a remarkable discipline. Any updates with discussions on turkey . Discussions with turkey are ongoing. With the of the for that with independently dash department of defense with the state department on that thank you very much. It is really not making sense. Why were we held hostage . I didnt go anywhere. Why were we why were we held hostage . We didnt go anywhere. Why were we held hostage and not allowed to rescue our people . We have proof. Why was that the case . With i am from the 60s called the police i will finish one dash finished talking that is the only reason i am here i did not come to represent me. I came to represent the people around a brick made fireplace because that is all we had in december when the hurricane happened in august. Less than 500,000 people spread over 50 states is the question we want to go. It is not for us to save fish to be rebuilt or not. It is reasonable to ask that they have a flood Protection System that will work. With puc this a few blocks up the road with vacant housing but first things first. If we get people to Higher Ground because it cannot be rebuilt. It is not possible. You can still smell the deaths now. You will notice that later when somebody tells you that you so bad after being down here. They cannot go win until they demolished when they tear down a house like that, they bring the dogs first. Is a typical house where you would still find a body. The june 198025 years ago, as cbs convinced us to go to the sec for consideration next generation of broadcasting and theres really not quite sure we wanted to do that because we were satellite and cable guides and didnt have a lot to do with the terrestrial broadcast Network Business but we ended up to do that. Then june 1994 cover was blown and a firstever betty said it was impossible while we were cleaning but sure enough one year later all of our competitors were following us and it became a race. Theyre current and two former assistant solicitors general who have argued before the Supreme Court and look back at the first 10 years of the Roberts Court and what is ahead for the coming term. This is in chicago. [inaudible conversations] good morning. It is nice to see you on this beautiful morning welcome to the Showcase Panel on 10 years of the Roberts Court high and a partner at williams and connolly. I dont know how many of you remember where you were september 3rd 2005. I was at a College Football game with my father the first half game of this season how we got to my folks house to turn on the tv and saw the breaking news alert on cnn that chief Justice Rehnquist had died, my after a very short battle with cancer. That triggered events in the confirmation of john roberts as the next chief justice of the United States and within one month sitting in the center chair of the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments and for me it is hard to believe that was ted years ago 10 years ago almost exactly from the date that we sit here today. We will talk about a number of aspects over the last 10 years i will briefly introduce the panel and talk about the format. To my right to is miguel estrada. One of the best known and best advocates practicing for the Supreme Court and has argued 22 cases before the court. First as a lawyer in the Justice Department and private practice. To my left is adam liptak the Supreme Court correspondent for the times he has been at least since 2008 to is covered most of the Roberts Court and other of legal issues before that. Wife gave former baseball player he is aware having practiced in new york before going in the house that the times so he brings a perspective. And to his left is Nicole Saharsky she may be a regular person but an extraordinarily the extraordinary lawyer arguing 23 cases before the Supreme Court and serves in the Governments Office that handles of all the litigation before the Supreme Court on she has been there since 2007 and is the longest serving assistant and i can say one of the finest advocates before the Supreme Court and i know that from personal experience. In terms of the format, we have approximately 90 minutes we will chat among ourselves for most of that time. At the end we will take questions from the audience or you can send a question through twitter and i will read that out for quite have a few question misheard submitted earlier this week. But i will start with a general question for all members of the panel. And if you had to think of areas that we will get to a deep into those issues but i want to start with general observations about the overall approach with the Roberts Court. If you had to identify a distinctive characteristic quality of the Roberts Corporation or any aspect what would that be . Starting with the chief justice taking this bader chief Justice Rehnquist that was not the spot he was originally nominated. He was nominated to be associate justice to replace Justice Oconnor i think associate justice robbers may have been different than chief Justice Roberts. In a handful of important cases may have voted differently because he has an institutional perspective in addition to the jurisprudence as he is the custodian of legitimacy and prestige and to take the chief spot and that led to Justice Alito taking Justice Oconnor spot and we have four versions of the Roberts Court after all those unbroken years of the Rehnquist Court now we have Justice Alito then Justice Kagan and Justice Sotomayor. But the only switch is Justice Alito through oconnor. That is very characteristic that Justice Alito is a key cases their Campaign Finance that is my best understanding with what is distinctive about the Roberts Court. With that central role of Justice Kennedy with the changes with that unique perspective and with that Rehnquist Court said you are as well placed as anyone. That makes me all the. Old as if your time was up the new chief is a law more generous with the clock and make let you finish your time work finisher sentence. That would never happen in the Rehnquist Court. They have done a law to define that analyst shifting area where the law goes one way than the Justice Sotomayor has shifted back as a former prosecutor in ways that are not all that happy with Justice Scalia as he tried to move a the clause in another way. You cannot think of the Roberts Court without thinking of the ensembles of people because it is a Different Court is very different. Your arguments have been with any further observations . If i think of the court he pledged to be more of an empire but to be administered and incremental approach because the things that you hear are gay marriage where it isnt necessarily clear where it takes a measured incremental approach but the the court has cases very narrowly and what they need to decide the case and the point that you made that chief Justice Roberts is probably different than associate Justice Roberts and to be very aware of the courts role of perceptions inside that courtroom. But they gave marriage case read the descent from the bench and we have never heard him read a dissent from the bench he just doesnt do that. He may concur or dissent and we were even talking about that could we remember any time . Maybe when you remember one but it takes a chiefly approach. Pcs himself as that figurehead to take the court where it needs to go but not pushing those boundaries. The next few minutes i will talk about the chief justice style to talk about personal style and oral argument and his agenda and he famously said after he was confirmed he wanted them to decide more cases with judicial modesty. We will not go when any particular order but with any particular aspect of that . On a binge of very smart lawyers he is among the smartest with the exceptional legal craftsman a very good writer only he and Justice Kagan write opinions from a standing start you really understand what is going on there and make it Crystal Clear that is an exceptional quality. Key is a tough man but can be tough with oral arguments. But the old chief was tough and nasty and dismiss it in a very charming way. [laughter] he would say blob blob law and you knew he did not give a darn the she would yank your chain if they did not like the position you were arguing he would cut you off quickly and the red light went on the senate to save a carnivore rebuttal and chief said but you didnt and that was that. [laughter] i think the chief i have not got on the bad side getting fully is it a better understanding so he is a little gentler with the people he is questioning. Also because he used to be there and every so often with administration. But because he was in the office . I dont think so. We are probably jumping ahead a little bit but there were some cases that he and Justice Alito see as government overreach that he is not happy with. Where he gives the government a hard time is not high profile or overreaching case for triad in an arcane judicial review not something to get people out of bed in the morning and he questioned the very aggressively why should we trust you or trust the government . Id make 5 an hour why are you yelling at me . I am doing my best. [laughter] i can believe the government would save this but you work for the government and you know, why. Or less about then the old chiefest. Lets table that permitted because i went to get to that and i went to talk not only about where the court is on sensitive issues, but what the court is interested in, but let me sort of ask one last question about this. We have a chief justice here who actually clerked for the last chief justice. He worked for then chief Justice Rehnquist and was one of the pallbearers at his funeral. As did ted cruz. Im curious to what affect he models himself early on the late chief and as you pointed out came into this interesting situation where he was joining a number of members of the court who had been together for this unprecedented period of time. Do you think he started out more like the late chief justice and changed . I dont think on the right person to answer that, but i will answer a slightly different question than when you asked. I think the fact that he clerked in the fact that he is so highly credentialed is characteristic of this court, which is all bowyers who attended hiebert harvard audio lawsuit with the exception of kagan and no one who has run for elected office quite unlike Justice Oconnor who was a public person who served in all three branches of the arizona government, that you do have in roberts and the rest of them and the old chief talked about this, that there is a tendency in american judicial life to become more and more like the europeans, so you dont have what the brown court look like of a former senator or former california governor or former attorney general, large public personalities making decisions, but rather highly credentialed lawyers who almost from the beginning of their career had only one goal, which was to become a judge as in europe where being a judge is a lifelong career and i think you see that with this. Is he his own man . I assume he answered. Yes, you wonder whether he can read, but he is definitely his own man. I think adams right to read the court is a professional court and they are all very highly skilled technical lawyers, which has not always been the case. I dont actually mourn the passage of the warren court. If you still read it opinions they are incomprehensible, so, i mean, etiquettes good to have Professionals Guild court and i think its good to have good technical lawyers. I dont buy into the myth that we had to have a senator in a governor. Whose sole purpose is to bring it somet