velshi/ruehl. washington, d.c., a very large protest under way, people marching towards the supreme court, protesting what may be the nomination of brett kavanaugh as an association justice of the supreme court. the first vote is scheduled for some time on friday. with a second vote scheduled for possibly as early as sunday. we re going to stay on that story and we ll bring you updates as they occur. a shocking new report reveals how china used a tiny chip about the size of a grain of rice to infill trait u.s. tech giants. and threatening national security on several fronts. acording to bloomberg business week, chinese spies attacked almost 30 u.s. companies, including amazon and apple, by planting the chip in hardware that is made in china and bound for the united states. this is a complicated and frightening story. joining me is one of the reporters who broke the story, michael riley of bloomberg news. michael, good to talk to you. tell me about how on the one
those are not on the record, not my stories to tell, but they made me feel like my memories were accurate. did you ever see him black out? you know, i didn t socialize with brett. but being in the same room where he slept, i saw him when he arrived at home regularly. and i saw him in the morning. and i can tell you that he would come home and he was incoherent, stumbling. he would sometimes be singing. he occasionally would wear this i think it was an old leather football helmet. and he would throw up. and then in the morning, would have a lot of trouble getting out of bed. so yes, i saw him both, what i would consider blackout drunk and also dealing with the repercussions of that in the morning. reports are saying the fbi did not interview anyone who lived in yale s lawrence hall and did not interview two of kavanaugh s high school acquaintances who submitted sworn declarations to senators
somewhere in america and you have a conflict, they can find another trial judge to take your place. same with the courts of appeal. there are no spare supreme court justices. so any time a justice recuses that leaves the court at a dean minutishes capacity. it s usually up to the justices themselves to decide whether to recuse. and they usually recuse for direct conflicts of interest. they have a family member. they were a judge that on the lower court when a case was decided. they worked on the issue when they were at the justice department. or they have some personal financial stake. they own stock in the company, that kind of thing. those are the usual reasons for recusal. recusals on political grounds are really exceptional. remember, ruth bader ginsburg made some very harsh comments about president trump, saying she might move out of the country if he got elected that kind of thing. she later apologized. there were some suggestions that maybe she d have to recuse from
that npr poll flipped in favor of republicans over the past couple of weeks. in addition to that, for evidence this might be kavanaugh related, republicans shared with me today ads they are pushing in these states tieing the democratic candidate to kavanaugh s potential failure to get to supreme court. we ll have to continue to watch where this goes. thank you. i want to take another look another the dow. little lower. this is on interest rates that have spiked a little quickly than expected. we were expecting them to spike any way and this happened quickly. d quickly.
is already a foregone conclusion, perhaps a vote here might help me politically. what s going to happen over the next 48 hours? we re going to see senators continue to review this fbi report and add that knowledge to what they already thought on this nominee. jeff flake, for example, remember, was a yes on kavanaugh. he had announced it last friday morning, before asking for this additional fbi investigation. he s probably once again the person who we re most likely to hear from first. given that we already knew he was inclined to support judge kavanaugh. now we re looking at this clock on when technically, it has to be at least an hour whenever the senate starts working tomorrow so that could be as early as 1:00 in the morning friday if they kept the senate in overnight or it could be first things first on friday. that s the procedural vote. it s a test vote essentially. but it s really one to watch. it s hard to imagine senators would say yes, we re comfortable with this but we r