a company faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against it the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one that s what we re going to use retest the merits were to see how that goes and then we ll produce the others afterwards what was interesting about this case is first of all it s the second case to go to trial i think you mentioned there was another case in august of last year that was in state court in california the first federal trial the federal judge said this will be a bellwether case going forward what was interesting is it was actually separate into two phases one was the evidentiary phase against roundup itself and the other is months on toes of knowledge. of whether round up the chemical in a glass to say it was problematic and it was supposed to actually be an easier case you know months on to win and they didn t. choose among acquired months after just over a year ago now there must have been a sense back then of the potential liabilities of round up w
lot of territory for them to look to win. and that vividly explains the disadvantage that democrats face in the truly competitive races, nine out of ten are democrats. bill: thank you for that carl, south central p.a. catch you later south of pennsylvania. here s martha. martha: with lots of speculation that republicans may tip the balance of power weeks from now, reports that democrats may have found a rallying cry to get around, using claims of, quote, secret money that is going to the gop as a possible excuse for defeat, if that s what happens. look at president obama in philadelphia: they re being helped along this year by special interest groups that are spending unlimited amounts of money on attack ads, attacking folks like patrick murphy, like joe sestak, just attacking people, without ever disclosing who s behind all these attack ads.