You are, a lockdown. A judicial lockdown in washington as well. One of the tea leaves am looking at is strong in, really indicative of the correlated angst we are seeing right now strong yen, really into get of of the correlated angst we are seeing right now. Jonathan in europe, the ftse off by more than 3 . The dax off by 3. 25 . Europe also looking to washington. Let me be clear about that. That has been the conversation throughout the morning here in london. What do the evans over the weekend me for policy and washington, d. C. . The past toward the fisc or agreement much trickier now toward fiscal agreement much trickier now. Point, there was a huge worry on wall street about the period from november after the election went into the end of january. For market participants, they are probably a little more worried about that this morning. Tom not just 40 days away from the election. I think really unspoken in all of this is eight days to the first president ial debate. That has radic
Senate Judiciary Committee where the confirmation fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburgs vacancy will play out. He says this front row seat in the last two Supreme Court nominations has given him a whole new perspective on the process. Here to share that with us along with what the time line may be is senator. Glad to have you back. Looking forward to if. Well, youre in the drivers seat. Were anticipating the president making his announcement on saturday. That sets in motion a process. What is that process . Well, its a constitutional process. Every president has the right to take replacements for the Supreme Court, to nominate judges when there are vacancies and he will do that. History as a guide there have been 19 Supreme Court nominations in an Election Year tony where the president and senate were the same party. 17 of the 19 were confirmed. This would be the 20th. When the president is theres only been two Supreme Court vacancies filled in the history of the country. So were operating w
Discrimination. Last october, the court heard oral arguments for two consolidated cases concerning employment and Sexual Orientation. This is an hour. We will hear in case 171618, bostic versus Clayton County in a consolidated case. Take you thank you. When an employer fires a male men, he for dating violates title vii. The employer has discriminated against the man because he treats that man worse than women who want to do the same thing. That discrimination is because of sex. Because the adverse employment malesis based on the employee to confirm about how men should behave that men should be attracted only to women and not to men. There is no analytic difference between this kind of discrimination and forms of discrimination that have been already recognized by every court to have addressed them. For example, discrimination against men who are effeminate rather than macho. That discrimination is because of nonconformity with an expectation of how men should behave. The attempt to ca
An increase. Remember, we are now testing at about 100 times the rate we were in march. Some of it is from one of the issues is increased hospitalization, that is not from increased testing. But im glad you are calling for ple to wear masks toward Wearing Masks. Should people be Wearing Masks at the rally in tolls other saturday . That might be so. Hospitalizations are going up but that is because elective procedures are permitted. Although the case rate has increased a bit, we are not talking about a second round. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] will testify on Monetary Policy and the economy before the senate banking, housing, and urban affairs committee. Live coverage begins tuesday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. American history tv on cspan3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. Co
Order, we will now proceed with questions. I will begin by recognizing myself or five minutes. On may 25, in the twilight of memorial day, Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police held a need to george mr. Floydonless neck, pleaded for release, repeating the words i cant breathe. Mr. Floyd, i am sure you have seen the video. Can you think of any reason why officer chauvin would need to hold his knee on your brothers for over eight minutes . I dont know why he did it, but personally i think it was personal. They worked at the same place. For him to do Something Like that, it had to be premeditated and he wanted to do it. Intentional. Yes sir. We have learned since then that he has faced 17 misconduct complaints during his career. He was named in the brutality lawsuit, he shot and critically wounded a man after a brief and nonviolent confrontation. How do you feel about the history what do you know what do you feel about the history of misconduct . He should have been off the force. Any o