there and knows vice president biden. when the committee considered the nomination of ruth bader ginsburg. she has a lot of experience in the court but thing she doesn t have is any experience as a judge. they ll be the first nominee in 38 years who has not, did, not come here with experience as a judge. that was 1972 when the president appointed lewis powell and william rehnquist. rehnquist went on to be chief justice. throughout the history, most of the nominees to the court have been judges but this is hardly a first. pete, i want to follow up on the number one criteria we kept being told by the president was having becoming an intellectual count are weight to chief justice roberts. there s been a concern in the white house that roberts sort of really has wired the supreme court and that all of the finalists were somehow people that the president thought could
all right. we had a little bit i ve problem there hearing, but bob bennett had a very tearful sort of farewell and good-bye. this is not somebody who plans on running as an independent. mark murray, the fallout from this just sort of beginning. could go in all sorts of directions. what s the initial take? the three-term senator, republican senator who is running for a fourth actually didn t get his party s nomination, didn t get to the primary that will end up deciding june 22nd. bob bennett becomes the third republican in the last year where republican voters in some form or fashion said they re not conservative enough. the others are charlie crist in florida and arlen specter in pennsylvania who is now a democrat. the big sinn for bob bennett is 2008, t.a.r.p. vote. but more importantly he partnered with ron highway deny on health care legislation that republicans and particularly conservatives didn t like very much. and the question that a lot of people and a lot of republicans wh
many knee who s liberal but is has impeccable credentials, brought a bunch of conservativatives into the harvard law school. he thought this would be a a relatively noncontroversial nomination. republicans feeling pressure from the right, they are having to look for a fight. they may have to pick a fight with someone who president obama didn t even think would be terribly controversial. does this make you reassess john mccain s chances in arizona? i m not saying you assumed he would survive the primary. a lot that he s running an aggressive campaign, jchlt j.d. hayworth, flawed credentials. is mccain in bigger trouble than we think. he s in big trouble. i was out there last week. i think in this environment given all the fights in the last 20 years john mccain picked with the more conservative wing of his party, i think it s a wonder
and help him to make a bomb. what was surprising to many is that this is the first time we ve seen a relatively small localized organization like the pakistani taliban reach across the ocean, reach across into the united states and carry out several kinds of try and carry out an attack similar to the way that al qaeda in the asian peninsula over the new year s try odd to carry out the bombing on the airliner. it s the second time we re seeing a small regional al qaeda or taliban organization attacking the american homeland. mick, because the american homeland and attempted attack, a lot of people are asking is there going to be a military response. what are you hearing at the pentagon? first of all, before i get into that, u.s. intelligence officials are telling us, too, that in addition to the pakistani taliban, they re still investigating possible links to other terrorist organizations, other taliban organizations and perhaps even some contact or direct involvement from al qaed
would greece pull out, portugal, spain? i hate this term but it s been used on cnbc a lot, the piggs. port ewe gal ireland, spain, greece. are those the countries we ll see pull out of the euro first? yes, that s the most likely scenario. there s another scenario in which the stronger countries, those that are willing to adopted german type policies that they pull out and create their own currency. i think it s more likely the weaker countries struggle with the kinds of fiscal cuts. we ve seen some of the protests in greece over the past week. that s the sort of pattern you would see across southern europe as they move forward with their budget trying to address their budget difficulties. i ireland is very much in trouble. italy is a big question. and there s also people beginning to discuss to what extent france will be ached by these problems in a serious way. i m glad you brought up ireland. one of the critiques i read of this bailout plan is while spain