Mark Halperin

My wife will need to see this segment for sure.

Justice Scalia.

Again, there are people watching the show, listening to the show who say, well, of course, I know all about Justice Scalia.

And I'm sad to say, because I like our next to be considered well-informed.

There are people here who probably only have a hazy understanding of justice.

of him.

So busy as you are, as many books as you've already written, and as much as you are interested in other topics, what is it about Justice Scalia that makes you want to write over years a three-volume biography of him?

Amazing.

And again, just to maybe have to spend time with someone who's one of the most important figures in the modern conservative movement is quite a thing.

Let's just lay down some basics for people who need Scalia 101.

What year was he born?

And what did he do before he was put on the Supreme Court?

Why did he go into the government?

And, you know, Scalia was a political animal and was he was he ambitious to to to be attorney general or to be a judge at that point?

All right, we're talking to James Rosen.

He's the chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax, author now of two of three planned volumes on Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court.

I want to get to volume two, but so just tick off for me.

We now have him in the Nixon administration.

Just tick off his jobs that he had from there, just the jobs from then to being nominated to be on the Supreme Court.

All right.