martha: welcome back as we get underway for the afternoon portion of the brett kavanaugh hearings. we are still waiting for kamala harris and cory booker, both of those senators are in the mixed and have been very vehement in their disgruntlement about the whole thing and wanted to adjourn it yesterday. as you saw blumenthal, blumenthal is expected to be fiery this afternoon as well as we get ready to watch what happens today. judge kavanaugh back in position now as we get the gavel from the committee chairman. so let s head back in. the next person to ask questions is senator durbin. judge kavanaugh, thank you for being back today for facing this next round. if i had to pick an area of clear expertise, it would be the area of judicial nominations. they have been engaged at
and syria now have jobs here young or well trained migrants have the best chances of getting work thirty thousand have begun apprenticeship training but still the most important requirement in finding a job is speaking german regardless of donald trump s complaints that rate hikes would hurt u.s. economic growth the federal reserve is likely to keep gradually raising rates this year if the economy remains robust the fed says the u.s. economy is strong right now with inflation close to target the fed s already hike rates twice this year leading to much disgruntlement by trump analysts expect to further hikes. following a twenty two hour marathon negotiation budget carrier ryan air has reached an agreement with the trade union representing irish pilots no further details of the deal are known at this stage but europe s second largest airline has been in talks with pilots and cabin crew in several countries over working conditions and pay
staff for ten years who was openly known to have been trained by military intelligence. he talked about it. they teased him about it. it was an open point of discussion in that office. they ended up firing him for cause. and then later that same month after they fired him all of a sudden the head of the fsb is in russian parliament denouncing the group and quoting from their internal meetings which this guy had attended just weeks before he got fired. as the new york times put it recently, they didn t have evidence but they suspected that kilimnik had been the source for the fsb. so it s interesting. that s what happened to the international republican institute back in the day, back in moscow. at least it seems like that s what happened. but the reason they had fired that guy that spring from that american office in moscow, the reason they fired him for cause under bad circumstances and maybe caused this disgruntlement, the reason they fired him is because that guy had been caught m
internal meetings which this guy attended weeks before he got fired. as the new york times put it recently, they didn t have evidence but they suspected that kilimnik had been the source for the fsb. so it s interesting. that s what happened to the international republican institute back in the day, back in moscow. at least it seems like that s what happened. but the reason they fired that guy that spring from the american office in moscow, the reason they fired him for cause under bad circumstances and maybe caused this disgruntlement. the reason they fired him is because that guy had been caught moonlighting another american outfit. specifically with a american political consultant named paul manafort who at that time in 2005 was representing pro russian interests in the former soviet state of ukraine. well now, today, as you may have heard there is a superceding
disgruntlement at the ass roots level with the idea of getting behind menendez. the question going to the fall, how many of these democratic voters in the falloing to be able to hold their n and say i m voting for menendez because i can t vote for a republican or will some of them say i m not voting for menendez at all, i m going to pick a republican in thisace orit out this race. new jersey not on anybody s radar right now but you look at a result like this, the republicans tonight nominated a businessman who has got a lot of money, philadelphia, new york airways, expensive state, all string, a spring, all summer, all fall, they ll be reminding every men. new jersey was in the same position. 16 years ago they had a candidate with ethical problems, federal investigation, senate reprimand. the polls collapsed a month before the election, they pulled