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From YouTube: Here/now: Jeffrey Toobin
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This special segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", features Director of Arlington County Library Diane Kresh and a host of Arlington high school students interviewing Jeffrey Toobin, author of this year's Arlington Reads book: "The Nine."
A
The
idea
of
a
town
book
is
one
that
has
really
swept
across
the
nation
in
the
last
few
years.
Getting
whole
cities
excited
about
reading
and
about
engaging
in
community
discussions
based
on
those
books.
Here
in
Arlington,
the
Arlington
reads:
program
has
been
running
for
four
years
and
as
successful
as
it's
been
in
the
past,
we
think
this
year
is
the
best
one.
B
Welcome
to
our
discussion
this
afternoon
with
Jeffrey
Toobin,
who
is
the
author
of
the
nine
I
understand
you
guys
are
all
from
government
classes
around
the
county,
whoo.
Okay,
we're
delighted
to
host
this
program
this
afternoon,
which
is
an
interview
with
Jeffrey
Toobin
who's,
the
author
of
the
nine,
but
he's
also
a
noted
journalist,
CNN
commentator
writer
for
The
New
Yorker
and
the
author
of
a
number
of
other
books,
including
too
close
to
call
the
thirty-six
day
battle
to
decide
the
2000
election
a
rich
and
varied
legal
career.
We're
very
pleased
to
have
him.
C
D
I
mean
that's
it
that's
a
great
question,
because
it
really
goes
to
the
intersection
of
law
and
politics,
which
is
you
know
really
what
the
book
is
about.
In
1973,
the
court
decided
a
case
called
roe
v
wade,
which
I'm
sure
many
of
you
know,
and
that
was
the
case
that
said
states
could
not
ban
abortion,
that
women
had
a
fundamental
right
to
make
that
decision
for
themselves
and
that
the
state
could
not
interfere
with
that
right.
D
And
if
you
watch
the
confirmation
hearings
that,
whether
you
know
Chief
Justice,
Roberts
and
Justice
Alito,
the
last
two
they're,
almost
all
about
abortion,
trying
to
figure
out
what
these
justices
would
do
if
they
were
called
upon
to
overrule
roe
v
wade.
But
look
if
John
McCain
had
won
the
election.
D
Roe
v
wade
would
have
been
overturned,
no
question
about
it
and
there
were
a
lot
of
people
who
voted
with
that
in
mind
on
both
sides:
people
who
wanted
r
overturn
people
who
didn't
want
it
over
turn
to
me
now,
that's
a
big
issue,
so
I
mean
I,
just
think
it
infects
our
politics
at
every
level.
I
was.
E
Just
wondering
how
you
think
that
you
know
sex
and
gender
is
taken
into
consideration
when
appointing
a
new
person
to
the
Supreme
Court
and
if
you
think
that
that
plays
any
part
at
all,
and
maybe
how
you
know
Obama
if
he
does
a
point
new
people
to
the
Supreme
Court
well,
if
that
will
affect
his
decision
at
all.
Well,.
D
The
answer
is,
it
certainly
will
affect
his
decision.
I
remember,
hearing
Justice,
Ginsburg
say
something
was
really
poignant.
I
thought
I
heard
her
say
once
she
said
you
know
it
never
even
occurred
to
me
that
I
would
ever
be
the
only
woman
on
the
Supreme,
Court
I.
Think
it's
shocking
I
mean
you
could
make
the
argument
say
in
the
70s
or
even
in
the
80s
look
law.
Schools
have
not
been
sexually
integrated
for
so
long
that
there
is
a
big
talent
pool
of
women
to
draw
on
that
argument
is
totally
obsolete.
D
Now
I
mean
there
are
more
at
more
than
half
the
law.
Students
in
the
country
now
are
women.
I
mean
something
like
more
than
a
third
of
the
lawyers
in
the
country
or
women.
If
Justice
Ginsburg,
the
only
woman
leaves
and
she's
75
years
old
and
it's
been
ill,
I
think
it
is
a
100%
guarantee
that
she
will
be
replayed
and
Obama
will
replace
her
with
a
woman.
The
woman,
the
Supreme
Court,
cannot
be
all
man
again
simply
cannot
I
think
he
will
be
very
interest.
D
I
mean
look,
Obama
is
someone
who
was
committed
personally
and
politically
to
diversity,
so
I
I
think
he
will
be
very
interested
in
appointing
racial
minorities
and
women
to
the
court.
There
has
never
been
a
Hispanic
justice
on
the
court.
I
think
Obama
will
be
very
interested
in
in
in
appointing
the
first
Hispanic
justice.
There's
a
a
woman
on
the
Court
of
Appeals
in
New
York
City
named
Sonia
Sotomayor,
who
is
a
Puerto,
Rican,
descent
and
she's.
You
know
certainly
a
possibility
in.
F
In
your
book,
you
talk
about
how
several
of
the
clerk's
to
the
justices
are.
Homosexual
and
I
was
just
wondering
how
that
dynamic
between
the
clerk's
and
the
justices
as
there
have
been
more
more
homosexual
clerks.
How
is
that
affected
the
justices,
behavior
and
attitude
kind
of
around
the
court
in
in
their
decisions,
and
what's
the
timeframe
that
we
could
have
an
openly
gay
Supreme,
Court
justice?
You.
D
Know
one
of
them
one
of
my
favorite
stories
in
the
book.
It
actually
goes
back
before
the
the
main
period
covered
by
the
book,
but
I
sort
of
I
tell
it
just
because
I
think
it's
so
interesting
1986
the
court
had
a
case
called
Bowers
V
Hardwick
about
in
in
the
state
of
Georgia
consensual
sex
between
men
was
illegal.
D
You
know
what
what
it
had
it.
What
is
this
gay
thing
I
mean
was
like
what
are
there
really
gay
people
said
that
I
just
tell
that
story
by
as
an
example
of
how
much
the
world
has
changed.
I
mean
the
most
conservative
justice
on
the
Supreme
Court
couldn't
possibly
say
that
he's
never
met
a
gay
person
before
every
sitcom
has
a
funny
gay
best
friend
right.
You
know
Minoo.
D
That
does
not
mean
that
the
legal
rights
of
gay
people
are
in
any
respect,
have
caught
up
to
that
now.
I'm
sure.
As
you
all
know,
one
of
the
hot
political
and
legal
issues
in
the
country
is
gay.
Marriage
and
some
states
have
it
and
some
don't
and
I.
Don't
think
that
the
current
Supreme
Court
is
gonna,
get
anywhere
near
that
controversy,
they're
gonna,
just
let
the
states
deal
with
it
and
some
haven't
some
will
not
as
for
an
openly
gay
Supreme,
Court
justice.
D
G
You
I
was
wondering:
were
there
to
be
a
case
that
reached
the
Supreme
Court?
How
do
you
think
they
would
rule?
Do
you
think
that
they
would
rule
that
the
methods
used
at
Guantanamo
were
in
fact,
torture
and
or
were,
and
with
that
ruling,
do
you
think
they
would
perhaps
rule
that
there
should
be
prosecution
of
the
people
who
participated
in
those
in
those
acts?
Well,.
D
D
Now
the
precise
question
that's
before
President
Obama
now
is:
should
anyone
who
authorized
the
torture
be
prosecuted
for
that?
That's,
not
a
decision
for
the
court.
The
court
doesn't
decide
who
gets
prosecuted
and
who
doesn't
if
someone
happens
to
get
convicted,
that
conviction
might
be
appealed
to
the
Supreme
Court,
but
they
don't
decide
whether
to
initiate
it
or
not.
Personally,
I
think,
given
what
we've
seen
so
far,
Obama
is
not
gonna.
D
Have
these
people
prosecuted
I
think
he
feels
like
they've
been
exposed,
they've
been
embarrassed,
but
the
country
doesn't
need
a
you
know,
there's
so
much
going
on.
He
doesn't
need
that
distraction.
So
I,
don't
think
the
Supreme
Court
is
gonna
get
the
torture
case,
but
if
they
did
I
think
it'd
be
very
close,
I
don't
know
exactly
how
they
highly
would
rule
I.