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Majority. >> the court does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insiddious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. but what about abortion? in 2007 the court upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion. again, the lone woman on the court at the time justice ginsburg spoke out calling the ruling alarming. but keep in mind, three male justices sided with ginsburg. so does gender necessarily color every decision? >> what's so good about having men and women as part of that decision is they can bring their experiences to bear to figure out what the law really was int...

That he was going to go ahead and fight the war in afghanistan. he has. i think he's signalled that the july 2011 timetable as a way of shifting responsibility over to the afghans and not making it an open-ended commitment by america. and i think that's the purpose of that policy. i think as karen says only the president is ultimately going to make these decisions. i think he's consistently said this is important, we'll fight it. i think the fact he's appointed general petraeus now also signals an intent to really go forward on this war. >> and as the issue of the time line came up today, i wa...

To become the commander of the nato and u.s. forces in afghanistan. one of the key questions, president obama said in july 2011 he will begin to bring u.s. troops home. many republicans don't like that. they say it sends the wrong message to the enemy. kes is one the troops should come home. john mccain making that point. >> that's the problem here in whether we are going to prevail and convince the people of afghanistan to come over to our side and to stand up against the taliban rather than as the military person said, they say you'll leave in 2011, the taliban will chop their heads off. it'...

Ago, i was part of the process that helped formulate the president's strategy for afghanistan. and i support and agree with his new policy. during this development, i offered my forthright military advice and i assure the president i will do the same as we conduct assessment over the course of the months ahead. he, in turn, assured me that he expects and wants me to provide that character of advice. as i also explained to this committee two weeks ago y specifically agree would the messages of greater commitment and greater urgency that the president expressed in his address at west point in de...

Government tried to argue in that case was that congress umpiled a very extensive record about the effects of these independent expenditures by corprations generally and by unions generally on the political process. and that what the congress had found was that these corporations and unions had a kind of access to congressmen, had a kind of influence over congressmen that changed outcomes that was a corrupting influence on congress. and that was what was the many, many thousand page record that was created before congress enacted the mccain/feingold revealed. >> challenged in citizens united a...