office first. he had the first black staff member. he was responsive to his constituency. he had the first black staff member, tom moss. and tim scott will get a significant amount of black votes because people will go to him in that same tradition as they went to strom thurmond. and he won t play race like a lot of them. i want to ask you this question. i want to see if because this is an appointment. the real question is, how few statewide elected black leaders we have in the country as a whole, but particularly in the south. we ll take about that after this break. [ male announcer ] campbell s green bean casserole. it s amazing what soup can do hi, i m ensure clear. clear, huh? i m not juice or fancy water. i ve got nine grams of protein. that s three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat.
0 good morning from thork. i m chris he s. egypt s new constitution appears headed towards the approval despite objections from opposition groups official ru89s are expect on monday. and ted kennedy jr. is considering a run for the senate seat that will become vacant if senator john kerry is confirmed as the next secretary of state. i m joined by former democratic governor of new jersey, james florio. and heidi moore. finance and editor of the guardian newspapers. and dean baker, author of the end of loser liberalism, making markets progressive. codirector of the center for economic and policy research. so, after at least after a dozen different public offers, countless press conferences and weeks of closed car door talks lawmakers in washington left town for the holidays on friday without an agreement to avert what we re calling the fiscal curb. a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts to take affect a week from now. a moment this week, the two sides seemed on the
light coming of orange county. no probltraffic is nice developing news, qantas airlines has suspended all flights of its six airbus 838 after a mid-air engine problem on a flight from singapore. qantas superjet in emergency airline landing after one of its four airlines failed you can see some of the debris that fell from the sky parts of that airplane report of the falling to the ground. the carrier says there was no explosion or for what reason fragments of the engine began breaking apart the plane landed safely and no injuries are reported that flight is a regular service between sydney, singapore, london. until the free-throw what went wrong is now grounding all of its 838 airlines. assistance this package conjugate brief evacuation, we re dry red jfk kennedy airport in new york after investigating and further the fbi determined it was safe, no explosives or found new york police say contain the cellphone, paper. u.s. authorities are on high alert after they interrupted a
fortunate. those on the other part were fortunate. they did not get killed by compression. they may have that in a lot of oil or getting over to our ship, but they were fortunate. they were about the only ones that arrived of course. the japanese missed a lot of chances. they really did. it was loaded with a lot of 14 inches ammunition. . . smaller. they missed it by about 10 feet with a bomb that went through the dock where they were tied up. that was one thing. another was the oil storage tanks. we operated on oil. if we did not have oil, we did not operate, and they did not get those. if they had got those, they would have flooded the harbor with running oil. they also missed the gasoline on for island. they did not get that. a lot of us that were at pearl harbor we blame roosevelt for a lot of this. the government wanted to get us the government wanted to get us war so we could go against germany, and that has been a lot of us, our opinion is that knowing about or alm
just yet. maybe i can tell you that later today after i meet with the chairman. do you see the february 17 date holding? it is not just a good idea, it is the law. i think we will have to stick to that and presented to congress later than the 17th. commissioner robert dole robert mcdowell and amy schatz of local wall street journal. thank you for having me. . . this is c-span s america and the courts. thursday, the u.s. senate voted to confirm the nomination of sonia sotomayor to the supreme court 68-31 with nine republicans joining the democrats. next, highlights from the senate floor debate. sotomayor s nomination, but first i m going to be joined by several of my esteemed fellow women senators, including senator shaheen of new hampshire, who is here already. senator stabenow of michigan. senator gillibrand from new york. and senator murray of washington state. we all know that this nomination is history-making for several reasons, but one of them, of course, i