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I think you want to correct yourself, congressman. the courts -- the first amendment is to protect unpopular opinion, right? >> protect all opinion. >> no. unpopular. let's face it. you don't need to say i love apple pie and protect i love the flag. you have to protect people who may burn the flag and do things you really, really hate seeing them do, right? isn't that what the first amendment is about? >> the first amendment, though, chris, i have to say apple pie may be popular in some places and unpopular in others. so you don't know exactly from where the case will come. i prefer cherry. >>...

Let's go to a former republican congressman ernest itook, fellow from the heritage foundation. thank you for joining us tonight. >> sure, chris. >> from what you've seen so far, would you oppose the nomination or confirmation of elena kagan for supreme court? >> the challenge is if you hire someone to do a job under supervision, someone with this little legal experience you might hire, but someone to have a lifetime appointment to be on the u.s. supreme court for the next 25 to 30 years now need to know more about what they really think about constitutional principles, how they are following t...

Leaders as the democratic party. check the list. give me a break about your party being the party of the humble people, regular folk. give me a break. your party picks as many elitist as the other party. right? accept that. >> i've never seen a measurement on that. i will grant you both parties do pick a lot of people that have ivy league credentials. i totally agree with you on that. that's a challenge. again, in this case, a lot of people have the accompaniment of those credentials with some more real world in the trenches type of experience. maybe it's the type of experience you like. maybe...