well, if you come from the hood or ya come from the burbs got the fellas up in here tonight we at the block party having fun the right seems to be warming to elena kagan, but progressives still want to know is she liberal enough? smart ted kauffman says not to worry, he calls her, quote, a democrats democrat.
she isn t worried about elena kagan s lack of judicial experience. senator scott brown says he isn t concerned she once banned military recruiters. neither has committed to voting for solicitor general kagan but comments don t sound like start of a gop mill bufilibuster. ted kauffman, member of the senate judiciary, thanks for joining us. lawrence, thanks for having me. it seems no real problem on the right. susan collins said she doesn t think there s reason to mount a filibuster. this is a good show for you to address the qualms of progressives. there are a lot of progressives worried about elena kagan. they don t feel confident in her progressive credentials. what do you say to them? look at her pedigree and where she is and where she worked. she worked in the clinton administration. she worked for senator biden when we did the judicial nomination of ruth bader
candidate. this is a candidate i predict will be one of the great supreme court justices, she has the mind, the thought and i ve been saying for a while, it s okay to have a circuit court judge on supreme court. that s fine. nine circuit court judge judges think we went overboard. senator ted kauffman of the senate judiciary committee. thank you, lawrence. thanks for having me. thanks. coming up, the president is slamming republicans for driving our economy into the ditch. e 100% who[ male announcer ] whu start with simple ingredients,
about 7% since the highs that we hit back in april. once again, it s the high beta names that are seeing money come out of them here. the ones that have had the fastest trades and up the most. homebuilders have been weak here throughout the morning. 3%, 4%. high beta names and moves higher in percentage and down more when the market is down. same situation with some of the big retail names. the retail index, remember, at a new high. many of the retailers at new high and near multi-year highs just a short while ago. scott wapner over at the nasdaq. scott? the s&p technology sector is already in correction mode. down 10% or so and we have seen technology lead the mark toots the down side today. we re not at the worst levels of the morning. certainly off of that, but as i take you to the wall and you check out the nasdaq. down 2%. nasdaq off 3.5%. technology has been weak throughout much of the morning. down almost 50 points here. take a look at apple. quite the story this mor
senator ted kaufman on the eve 6 what could be a long night for you, sir. great, jeff. thanks for having me. we want to get to the faster three minutes in news. i guess you ll decide that. we go down to the wire. and saying i do twilight style, are you ready? hit the clock. first up, u.s. navy submarine sailors will have to give smoking the boot. as of december 31st, no more smoking on navy subs. the navy estimates up to 40% of men serving on the subs smoke. that s around 5,200 stalers. to a new york state tax appeals ruling. if you re wondering wee the tax board in albany just ruled that exotic dancing is not an art, therefore it doesn t qualify for the sales tax exemption. the ruling reads in part, quote, some of the moves on the pole are very difficult. however, stripping cannot work with the dramatic arts exception