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campus to recruit in other ways, such as working with the student veterans group. >> elena kagan tried to square the circle. she wanted to make both sides happy. >> reporter: there's a federal law that threatens to cut funding to universities that ban the military from campus. harvard receives more than $300 million federal dollars a year. and so armed with that, the pentagon pressured harvard and kagan relented. but she kept fighting, joining several other law professors in a case against the military which the supreme court rejected 8-0. terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >>...

veterans group. >> elena kagan tried to square the circle. she wanted to make both sides happy. >> reporter: there's a federal law that threatens to cut funding to universities that ban the military from campus. harvard receives more than $300 million federal dollars a year. and so armed with that, the pentagon pressured harvard and kagan relented. but she kept fighting, joining several other law professors in a case against the military which the supreme court rejected 8-0. terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >> a vote comes today to confirm general david petraeus as the top u...

Is now presumed that cabinet secretary is hillary clinton. the web site politico is reporting that the murphy worked at accounting firm where hillary clinton friend and fundraiser allen was thought to be a client. we talked with him shortly before going to air a few moments ago and he said simply no comment when asked about this story and then he hung up the phone. make no mistake about this. the description of the individual that murphy sent to moscow fits patrick cough. >> people they knew are now accused spies. never saw anything suspicious. we talked to friends of a couple who are two of t...

Medicaid is an issue in our budget, as well. because medicaid costs are soaring with more people out of work and more losing their health benefits. but, everyone's having to make tough choices now. listen the federal government decides not to do that we're going to have to react and respond and try to protect the most vulnerable in our state. and we'll do that. and this budget protects the most vulnerable in our state. more money for charity care in our hospitals for people who access health care through hospitals. we raise that, we kept funding level for other health care issues because of th...

abilities to bring that commonsense perspective to the court. >> reporter: critics point to kagan's decision while at harvard to limit on-campus military recruiting because of the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. >> her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting for our country in two wars overseas. >> reporter: if kagan is confirmed as expected, it would be the first time in u.s. history that three women are sitting on the high court at the same time. jeremy and barbara? >> t.j. winick in washington, thank you. it was not the...