Mark Halperin

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.

All right.

So your book, the new book covers the first portion of the almost 30 years that he's on the first half.

The first half.

Yeah.

And and explain how you make a Supreme Court justice, a towering intellect, but who operates, you know, without a lot of public comments.

How do you turn him into a compelling character?

for an audience that's not interested in a stuffy legal book?

How do you bring that to life in your process and in your writing?

We're talking to James Rosen about his new book about Justice Scalia.

Go on the Amazon page for the book, and you'll laugh at how favorable the quotes are from about 70 people from all walks of American life talking about, as James said, what a great read it is.

And it is, but it's an important work of American history as well.

We're going to take a quick break.

When we come back, we're going to talk about why this charming, loved, lovely, brilliant guy is such an important figure in legal history because of his view of how justices and judges should judge and rule.

Next up, more with James Rosen about his book on Antonin Scalia.