the last segment. we ll play it by ear. my job, i am focused on protecting pennsylvania jobs and supporting our steel industry. dana: i did want to ask you, your district is a very interesting one. when it comes to unions and union support, on monday the supreme court heard an oral argument in a case that would basically say that unions are no longer allowed to coerce union members into giving them money that they then spend on political activities that is largely liberal. if this were to actually be decided in favor of the business groups and against the unions, there s basically really break up a lot of union power. are you supportive of that? i think our union brothers and sisters, they tell me they re willing to compete. they have a lot to offer. they have great apprenticeship programs. they drug test their employee. they pull people off the job. if someone s pulled off the job that s not doing well, they replace them. that cost a little more.
country dry leading to dozens of deaths. also breaking at this hour, iran just weighing in on president trump s partially reinstated travel order. the world s number one state sponsor of terror calling it, quote: racist and unfair. on monday the supreme court allowed president trump to forge ahead with a limited version of his order on immigrants from iran, syria, sudan, yemen, libya, and somalia. the justices will hear full arguments in october. here is a question. who puts the president of the united states on hold? ireland. president trump waited for more than a minute and a half while calling to congratulate the new prime minister. ireland s youngest ever by the way. he is an open critic of president trump. you can see him there in the pictures. waiting, you know, to congratulate him. steve: the question is whether or not he did that on purpose. if he was not. brian: i m going to talk to my people oin my family tree and find out. president trump s economic
assault otherwise law-abiding citizens going about their lives. this is terrible. so the case already has that level of interest. but then it s opened up a window into something that lawyers and advocates and civil rights attorneys have talked about for a long time which is, wait a minute. you can end up in front of a jury that has nothing to look like your peers, that doesn t look like the community, and it is done explicitly sometimes for lawyers and i should say for both sides. sometimes prosecutors, sometimes defense council. these are called preemptory challenge. you can t say you re racially profi profiling. the allegation is that it sometimes ends up looking like racially profiling. and we don t know if that is the case in this situation. no, we don t. three african-americans were dismissed from the jury according to the 2014 census report, population of oklahoma, 75% white. 8% black here. but going back to on monday the supreme court heard this case regarding racial discr
on monday the supreme court heard arguments in a landmark case that for the the first time asked the court to considered online threats and whether those threats institute speech that is protected by the first amendment. at the center of the case are threats posted to facebook in the form of rap lyrics. a pennsylvania man went by his rap name tone dougie. they were lengthy, violent screams, most of which were detailed fantasies about brutally hurting or killing his ex-wife. he was charged under a federal law that makes it a crime to use interstate communications to threaten or injury someone. but he insists his lyrics were not innocent to be taken seriously. during arguments, the chief jus stis john roberts pushed the lawyer for the government to clarify the circumstances in which threatening rap lyrics could be prosecuted by
now listen to this. genetics, what can it mean, the ability to perfect the physical and mental characteristics of every unborn child. that was a clip from the 1997 sici-fi movie gatica to ensur only the best traits are handed down from generation to generation. dna becomes the passport to better careers and lifestyles but could a person s genetics be exploited for commercial gain in real life? on monday the supreme court is going to be hearing arguments to determine if companies can patent human genes and the decision could have a major impact on cancer research here in the u.s.. of the nearly 28,000 genes in the human genome more than a third are patented by universities and pharmaceutical companies including brca-1 and brca-2, increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.