school instructor and testified on his behalf at his high court confirmation hearings in washington. that mentor of kennedy testified at kennedy s confirmation hearing in december of 87. here he is. i think he will have compassion and empathy for all those who present themselves. he ll do that without personal predilection, without a specific philosophical inclination, with an aim at consensus building. i urge a vote of confirmation. the supreme court decision on that same-sex matter is expected some time in june. mark sherman is the associated press press reporter who wrote this story and he joins us now. also joining us is paul henderson, a veteran prosecutor. let me start with mark and give us a sense of this. i ve always had a sense about the court decisions of justice kennedy, about the idea of the individual, and the individual as a whole person. and yes, sex is part of that, sexual attraction is part of that, sexual behavior is part of that, but they re all part of
as a piller of the sacramento legal community, a closeted gay man who hired kennedy as a law school instructor and testified on his behalf at his high court confirmation hearings in washington. that mentor of kennedy testified at kennedy s confirmation hearing in december of 87. here he is. i think he will have compassion and empathy for all those who present themselves. he ll do that without personal predilection, without a specific philosophical inclination, with an aim at consensus building. i urge a vote of confirmation. the supreme court decision on that same-sex matter is expected some time in june. mark sherman is the associated press press reporter who wrote this story and he joins us now. also joining us is paul henderson, a veteran prosecutor. let me start with mark and give us a sense of this. i ve always had a sense about the court decisions of justice kennedy, about the idea of the individual, and the individual as a whole person.
a fair trial, daily news chose to likening him to a lynching victim. and social media has shown its ugly side. a press reporter tweeted so we can all kill teenagers now? just checking. she apologized for what she claimed was a bad joke. and two pro football players have said they re sorry for their twitter comments. victor cruz saying thoroughly confused. zimmerman doesn t last a year before the hood catches up to him. and roddy white, all them jurors should go home tonight and kill themselves for letting a grown man get away with killing a kid. nor does it help when ted nugent writes that trayvon martin was, quote, a dope smoking racist gangster with an that bee. zimmerman trial has turned out to be a media gold mine.an that. zimmerman trial has turned out to be a media gold mine. unfortunately, that verdict seems to have spurred a whole new round of divisive coverage. and zimmerman s attorneys are
normal trading this is not normal. the mayor bloomberg getting the job done, now he is up there ringing the bell, and 9:30 this morning, when it always opens and remember, this is the first time in more than a century the markets closed for back-to-back days because of weather, and outside the building, an associate press reporter described the scene as strangely quiet, and much of the neighborhood, all of that neighborhood is still without power and everything but the stock exchange is running on backup general varieties and trader confirmed that many wall street banks are operating with skeletal staffs. it is not business as usual? guest: not quite. we expected everything to be up and running and we are not quite there yet. pretty well staffed on the trading floor with the traders in. that is the good news but limited phone and internet service. i know you are thinking they do
extra turn off your cell phone plane, either, because hillary clinton is of course america s secretary of state. in this case she is riding in a c 17 military plane that has been kited out just for her. it s like, look, right? it s like a secretary of state batmobile. so people can stand up and walk around, they can take highly classified phone calls at cruising altitude. and seriously, the secretary of state needs the room. she s got meetings, capital m meetings in malta and oman and pakistan and afghanistan and libya. she s got reporters along from time and reuters and apoeshed press who get to tell us about this later. plus she needs room for her giant briefing books so she can read up on what she has to read up on. somewhere on the flight to tripoli a press reporter took this picture. although this picture is not brand-new, it was actually taken last fall, last october, this week this picture became a