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Know more about her now. she's done a great job as solicitor general. >> i've been convinced, i've seen the light. one more in. there will be a republican primary in utah. the state's three-term senator won't be on the ballot. he didn't make the cut at utah's republican convention. when he was here last week, senator robert bennett seemed to have a sense this might be coming. >> the anger is palpable. the ang ser strong and that's why i'm in trouble. if i meet with the delegates, if i spend time with them going through the facts, i find i can turn them around. >> he found that didn't quite wor...

>> the criticism is that she was somehow not only against the policy but anti-military. >> well, i think this is fair game for the senate hearings. i think she'll have a good answer. because the reality was she was against discrimination against her students. we had students at harvard -- and i was on the committee that proposed this policy. students were discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. we thought that was unfair. the dean supported that idea of not allowing someone to discriminate against people who were patriots, who wanted to serve for their country, who were will...

Clinton to support compromise legislation on late-term abortions. it would have banned some late-term abortions. do you know her views on abortion? >> again, she was trying to influence what president clinton was doing. it was his policies that were being pushed forward. that legislation was coming forward from the hill. there was a lot of discussion and debate about that, but i would say that, you know, i believe that her view, she'll have to explore this in hearings as professor ogletree was suggesting -- >> but do you know her views? >> i don't know her views as we stand here today, but i s...

Say one of the main avenues of inquiry they want to propose looking at is what happened on this whole incident of the military recruiters on the harvard campus. she opposes don't ask, don't tell. she's been very clear about that. when she was at the school -- because this can be confusing -- she reinstated a policy banning military recruitment because the military discriminated against gay americans. she did not let them have their central office that they once had on campus. the government threatened to withhold federal aid and kagan did relent permitting recruitment at the law school. i want...

Importance of understanding how the world works and how ordinary people live. ms. kagan has spent her entire professional career in harvard squire, hyde park and the d.c parkway. this is not places where people learn how ordinary people live. seemed to suggest she's an elitist. >> interesting that they're out attacking her today rather than letting her kind of answer questions, speak for herself, look at a tremendous career of public service that she's had. but if you come back and look at what she's actually done, what -- and i know her particularly from the policy perspective when she worked...