June 29 - Why the Constitution is not on the Tea Party's Side; Riots in Greece; Clarence Thomas to Possibly be Removed

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Part 1	We begin with a discussion of the constitutional underpinning of the debt ceiling that is central to the stalled negotiations between the White House and the Republican leadership over deficit reduction, which was the subject of today’s press conference by the President. Jonathan Zasloff, who is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law, joins us to explain that the constitution, which the Tea Partiers supposedly revere, is not on their side of the debt ceiling issue.
Part 2	Then we go to Athens, Greece to talk to Ralph Atkins, a reporter with the Financial Times who covers the European Central Bank. He will give us an update on the riots in the streets in response to the Greek parliament’s passage of austerity measures demanded by the European banks and bond holders to prevent a default on the 340 billion Euro debt that Greece is straining to pay interest on.
Part 3	Then former White House Council and best-selling author, John Dean, joins us to talk about how Justice Clarence Thomas could be removed from the Supreme Court following the example and precedent set by Assistant Attorney General William Rehnquist, who launched an attack based on weak evidence against Abe Fortas, who was about to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, leading to the ultimate irony of William Rehnquist himself ending up in that very job.