I may have misunderstood that i thought you said one of the cases earlier in your talk that one of the Supreme Court had his clerk look for particular case. Do they do that . How often does that happen . Not often. The reason was that they were getting ready, the Majority Court had decided that should be overruled. Many states have argued opted laws providing lawyers. I think they were all men handful of Southern States that still didnt but ill bet. Brady was on the book the court kept getting one appeal after another on the sixth amendment and wanted to stop that so they said lets get a case where we can overrule betts but the first two they came in they didnt want to use. Remember the court controls this docket. I had a case, urofsky v. Fillmore still studied, which was decided by the fifth circuit circuit the Fourth Circuit in richmond. The Supreme Court didnt take it in what i have always told students have asked about it it was absolutely right he didnt frame the question the right way that they would have been able to answer it so the court, they only decide 75 cases a year now. A lot of things, to give you one example theres a case coming up called fischer v. Texas. Dealing with affirmative action. Way back when, the dealing wit. Way back when, the Circuit Court , the fifth circuit in texas . The fifth circuit in texas. The fifth circuit held that texas did not use race as a criteria for a commission. Which meant all of the states covered by the fifth circuit were held to that loss. The Supreme Court refused to review it. Why they refused they never made clear. They just refuse but a few years later they took almost identical case, two cases actually from the university of michigan one dealing with law school and one dealing with college and essentially overturned fischer v. Texas of the court takes a look at not only what was the case but was it framed in such a way that they could say what we want to say about it . Actually could they go out and speak . They have to look at what comes than that they get almost 10,000 a year for which they pay less than 100. [inaudible] they have to take it. Once they get a case they can run with it. They come back with a much broader you may not agree with it but hes the chief justice. He can do what he wants especially if he has for their votes. [inaudible] all right, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] booktv attended a Publication Party in washington d. C. With author and Time Magazine columnist joe klein. His latest book, charlie mike progress to combat Eric Greitens and jake wood. Mr. Klein mingled with guests and moderated a Panel Discussion about the book. That story is never really been told. Get them to libya. Get them to libya. We need them here. I see what you mean. Many of them come back and i talk about creating a way to get people who have those experiences in the military service some sort of formal credit for it. I have been fighting this fight. Im a journalist on Everything Else but im a lobbyist when it comes to these kids. I have been trying to get the administration to start a program that would give them licensing for their skills before they get out. We have 50,000 welders in this country and there are plenty of welders who come in out of the military and they have to pay money to go to school. If they come out with a credential. Who speaking against that . I will tell you. The unions. Matches the unions but the bureaucracies. The state licensing commissions. I was talking to kasich and they said you know the truck driver in ohio that paid 10,000 for three months of training. The guys who drove in kandahar province i think they can handle it. I said you are absolutely right and nothing happened. Hes one that likes to see things happen. [inaudible] the senator from virginia really. Mark warner . The other one. Tim kaine. You have more brain left than i do. He and i have had several conversations about it. He is a really good guy. This is one of the areas you can really get bipartisan support. Supposedly being run out of the first ladys office. She is the one that is more involved in the military. I dont think anyone has gotten tremendous leads but my son chris served in baghdad. They knew each other. Good for you for documenting. They said to me simon schuster, two guys who were linked by a tragedy hookah want to start these Fabulous Service organizations. One of them is Eric Greitens who founded the Mission Continues and is now running for governor of missouri as a prorepublican. Hes running against republican ways means. One of his first Mission Continues fellows fellowships for wounded veterans as they come up with this and one of his first fellows was jake wood who was the founder and he and his best friends developed an advocacy of that fellowship. Wow. So the book is the story of them and clays story. And how clays dad had this are found and how they adjust to the organization really changed it. Jonathan karp, we write novels, plenty of novels, plenty of nonfiction novels. [inaudible] where is he now . Jake. Is he here tonight . He was going to be here tonight that his wife have surgery scheduled for tomorrow, so he cant be here. Eric is that he can be here. We are going to have cool people from both organizations. When i go around the country in some cases jake is not only a former navy s. E. A. L. But probably the only navy s. E. A. L. Who worked for mother teresa. Mother teresa, jewish, navy s. E. A. L. Wow. Is the fact that he is jewish jewish we are combining those with Service Projects with the Mission ContinuesService Projects. Part of this novel takes place in the middle east and a lot of it has been taken to israel. He wrote a couple of big stories. Whatever its about its going to be a terminal figure. All the World Airlines in the biggest melting pot. [inaudible] is very plugged in. Used to have an italian restaurant. Do you know about that place . We were the only people there. The same thing in vietnam, i can remember as a vietnam veteran. It was the same sort of differentiation. My case was they were doing counterinsurgency and i went out in the vetted. In afghanistan i said to myself they are going to come back to do Public Service. I hadnt thought of that but it was probably right. He and paul went to work. In fact they are both acknowledged in the same paragraph. Not in the same sentence. Anyway i really look forward to reading it. There you are. Who is following you . Cspan. Assistant secretary of state. [inaudible] one of the best overseas ambassadors that we have. [inaudible] the main thing was and i gave them [inaudible conversations] i have been to the middle east a number of times. I hadnt been out on patrol before. I wouldnt do that now. How did you like it . I liked it a lot. These guys, you should really be getting to spend more time with them. It would really be great if you could coordinate with them. They are brilliant. I was there today. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Dave Callaway is a veteran that has been setting combat surgery throughout the world. He helps civilians out. He also runs Emergency Services in the city of in north carolina. [inaudible conversations] he invented a new kind of turning kit. He invented a new kind of turn a kid. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] those guys are often overlooked. Ive got to say this was the greatest time in my life. The interesting thing is that we dont realize most are not going to stay in the military. We have 120,000 soldiers. Its the american dream. We offer g. I. Benefits that but 90 of them according to the polls [inaudible] im trying to remember the name but i was in leavenworth with petraeus. I was watching the government in these towns. [inaudible conversations] he could go home and run for governor of iowa. I think there are should be preparing kids. He said i hadnt thought about that. So he started helping me. K there are folks, good evening. Hi there. I wanted to warmly welcome many episodes j. Friends of joe and i also feel very fortunate to call many of you longtime friends. Time spent in government in washington and now as the new chapter has begun. Its so good to see all of you and welcome to the home. Im extremely grateful to be able to host this evening and i will say more about that in a moment. You know as jill and i have been talking in recent weeks about doing this here in washington it occurred to me that in every era in American History there have been tremendous infusions of character and strength into the citizenry of the United States and they are our returning veterans. These men and women tempered by war as we all know well for multiple deployments have made extraordinary contributions to what and who we are as a country and as a people and most recently in the last 14 years in iraq and afghanistan, and also other places they have fought to keep us secure and as we have so often found in his joe is written about so eloquently in charlie mike once they have returned home more of them do not return to their communities and try to answer the question happily continue to serve here now that i have transitioned in the amount of uniformed . People like your friends and people like jake wood and many people who have served. You try to essentially continue the mission in your own way. I think this is ultimately why we are all here tonight. For joe, for the content of the book, essentially to recognize an outstanding generation of returning veterans and hear Inspiring Stories of these men and women and how theyre making making and i also think to reflect upon our consider how we essentially hear that call to service, how we engage as joe says active citizenship here in our own lives. One of the things that i wanted to do right now before we proceed with joe and the panel and several of our sponsors who want to come up and say a few words from go with someone we all know who is sophisticated entrepreneur philanthropist where will known in washington and obviously the owners of the legendary cafe milano. One of the things that i think is so interesting that people dont often know is how dedicated and committed he has been to our troops since they have returned home. In fact he has done is under the radar and obviously not in any sort of a public way. During the height of the force he spent a lot of time at walter reed and bethesda talking to wounded warriors. Again off the radar and thats when you really know its the real deal. I cant think of a better partner in crime as i like to call it. I cant think of anyone for whom i really have more respect and joe as well and are grateful and bringing together this Awesome Group of people tonight. I wanted to say franco thank you very much. I wanted to invite you to comment and offer a few words and im i really really really appreciate your commitment and how you made that manifested again here tonight so franco do you want to say a few words . [applause] by now you are did know my name. My name is franco. Of course i want to give a word of welcome to all of you. It is my privilege and honor to host this special group. First of all let me thank the board of sponsors for their generous support and express my deepest and most sincere gratitude to the honorable jane honors general gene jones general john adams. And congressman seth and last but not least windy wendy anderson. She is the soul of the offense and most of you dont know she traveled to italy last week. To rome. [laughter] i spend of lot of hours on my knees praising this weather. [applause] she is really incredible and extraordinary. Her passion really brings us together so a very special thank you to you wendy. And now let me express my gratitude to joe klein for this book and truly am proud to host today. There is no greater responsibility than the men and women who have given everything to serve and protect us, to guarantee our freedom and security. Joe kleins charming is a tribute to our veterans. This is a tale of life and death. Page after page the stories of Eric Greitens and jake wood fills our hearts with hope. For the first time we see an energy from the battlefield, a story of lives saved, not devastated. This book is a positive story for all of us and these two combat veterans who continued their mission by helping others. So thank you joe for this powerful and magnificent book of hope and faith and welcome home. Thank you. [applause] im about to throw you over to the real point of the night which is joe and a great group of veterans who are going to speak with him. I just wanted to say its really clear to me that joe has aspired to write charlie mike. Soldiers and marines not just fighting but helping revitalize communities and helping people and i think he has recognized very clearly brought the content of the book that this generation is going to have a very strong inclination a natural desire to continue to serve and lead back here at home. From the start he has clearly recognized that this bear assets and their potential season leaders. There are people who are living lives of consequence and that they have something as a group as individuals, something profound to teach all of us about the way that we participate in our democracy and act as citizens in the 21st century. Thats really what the message is. I think what i take the message to be of charlie mike and the reason we are all gathered here tonight. Thank you. [applause] im kind of blown away. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you to the sponsors. I want to thank all of my buddies from the wars of New Hampshire and iowa and afghanistan. I know there are a bunch of people out beyond this place who ive spent many, too many nights in iowa and New Hampshire with and i also was want to thank the veterans. Thank you for your service has become a cup kind of a cliche. Too often its thank you for your service. [inaudible] and so i will thank you for your service but i want to hear for important words first uttered by a Eric Greitens in iraq. He walked up and down the awards and he asked the wounded bear, what do you want to do next . I had the same experience. They always say the same thing, i want to go back to my unit. And then he would ask them, well if you cant or when you get out of the service what you want to do . And they would say well i want to go back and maybe Coach Little League or teach or become a cop or fireman. And the polls show that this extraordinary generation, 90 of them want to continue on their service when they come home. And so eric in a moment of brilliance, which is not unusual , found himself saying to these kids who said that they wanted to continue to serve the following four years for words. We still need you. We really do need you in this country because of your values, your discipline, your sense of community. Now you may wonder how one old political reporter like me got involved in this. And so im going to tell you a quick story and then im going to provide a wendy is right, i wouldnt be here tonight if i hadnt been there but i wouldnt have gone there if i didnt live in a town just north of new york city where nine of my neighbors didnt come home on the night of september 11. I thought i had retired from journalism. It turned out i retired for eight months and 11 days and i had to get back in. For me journalism has always been an education and i had to learn the military, i had to learn intelligence, i had to learn islam. In it the region some but i had to learn that better and during the course of this ive bought once we were there we would have more responsibility to calm things down and let the iraqis have their own state. And in 2006 when things were going really bad i wrote a column about counterinsurgency strategy. Military folks here know all about it. The basic principle was instead of playing whackamole and going off to try to find the bad guys we would protect the good guys. We would protect the public. So i wrote this column and the next day i got a call from a guy named David Petraeus who had been cast into the outer darkness i dont know rumsfeld one of the dash servants we have ever had that he sent to fort leavenworth. There are petraeus was concocting a counterinsurgency and he said look, you were on the right track but you dont know anything. He said you want to learn and i said yeah. He said im going to send you a reading list. Immediately he sent 30 articles about general insurgency and he said do you want to come out and study with us . I said sure, absolutely. The ground rules were was all off record but i could ask anything i wanted and i began to learn their. For example i might ask the question from one of his brilliant circle of advisers all of whom seemed to be scholars, you know one of them would respond why did she read chiarellis piece about postelection warfare . At 1. 1 of them looked at my loafers and said klein you were too lazy to even tie your shoes anymore. [laughter] and the only possible response to that and their intelligence in rigor and a government that i didnt think was paying enough attention was to fall totally in love. And so i kept in touch and six months later David Petraeus was sent to iraq to try to patch things up. I said when you want me to come . Much to my wifes chagrin and he said i will let you know. At first i went into a rack and abetted their credit when on patrol and i got caught up in it as wendy said i was mostly embedded in afghanistan and most of it in afghanistan in one town which is just west of kandahar. Two towns over from mullah omars hometown and i first embedded with the fourth and Third Infantry Division with a 30 old captain who was in charge and the mayor of the town. His job was not only to protect them but also via public works money so for the hearst time in human history, the afghan residents were asked what woul