James Rosen

I'm from Staten Island.

He has that sort of sarcastic, in-your-face kind of humor.

And he had humor to begin with, which a lot of people in official life don't really display.

When I came to Fox News in 1999...

uh, to Washington, I wrote to Scalia and said, Hey, I'd love to do an interview in essence.

And, and he wrote back and basically said, I have a policy, which makes it, I don't make a spectacle of myself as a judge, but I'd be happy to get together for lunch.

And I said, I appreciate your policy, but what kind of, what, what other than a spectacle should we call it?

when you're appearing on a theater in the round setting with cameras for PBS convened amongst other eminent minds discussing hypothetical scenarios.

And Scalia wrote back and he said, you know, you are right, right there.

That's a major concession.

A lot of his clerks never heard those words.

Maybe some of his children never heard those words.

You are right.

I probably should not have done those PBS shows.

We had lunch twice and we continued writing to each other.

We had a really amusing correspondence.

The lunches were off the record.

But I can talk a little bit about the atmospherics and the correspondence between us.

And that's all in the book.

There's a chapter in the book called The Rabbit.