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news throughout the morning as we start your headlines, additional headlines with this: one person reportedly dead and 27 others taken to the hospital after a terrifying bus crash in massachusetts last night. the bus was take thing students back to brandeis -- brandeis university. it's unclear what caused the accident. >> overnight the united nations reached a new climate deal that would help pay for climate damages in poor nations. the u.s. and the e.u. were pushing for china to contribute to the fund and block them from benefiting from it, but that could be complicated as china, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas, is still considered a a developing country and, therefore, eligible to receive that that funding. pete: so we're going to pay them. rachel: yes. they're the ones doing all the emissions, but we have to pay them because the u.n. says they're not developed. will: today the is joe biden's birthday making him the first
he was harvard educated, a crusader against corruption, and the nation's most prominent public interest lawyer. you also happen to be jewish. and so, central becomes vilified granddaughter said, money grubbing and. republican senator even charge that brandeis was only nominated against president woodrow wilson wanted to secure the quote, jewish vote. fast forward to 2010, would come out about president obama's plan to nominate elena kagan to the supreme court. how conservatives responded to that? they launched a hate fueled whisper campaign to derail her prospects, accusing her of being a lesbian. now, republicans didn't pick up a couple of weeks ago and suddenly decided to tar and feather judge jackson as a pedophile lover. no. this has long been their playbook. smear, be a little, mark and then turn around and ask, where is all the civility.
expected. so these choices making a big difference. one example of this is the always surprising woodrow wilson, president of the united states in the teens, who has the distinction of appointing not only the first jewish justice, justice brandeis, but also one of the worst anti-semites in history, justice mcreynolds, who shunned both brandeis and another jewish justice, cardozo, for all the time he was on the supreme court. you never know what's going to happen. decisions have consequences. joe biden knows that. >> michael beschloss, thanks for your perspective, personal as well as historic. really appreciate it. and the u.s. economy growing by 6.9% in the first quarter of 2022 following a 2021 rebound, marking the strongest calendar year-to-year growth since 1984. the fed chairman has signaled interest rate reichs could come
brandeis. louis brandeis. the first black justice. thurgood marshall. the first woman, sandra day o'connor. the first italian american, antonin scalia. and yet there is something clearly triggering about the first black woman to be on the court. >> well, i think -- i think there is an attitude here that this is a court that really is supposed to be for white men. and it was for a long time. and even if you look at the comments that senator wicker made about justice sotomayor, saying basically that whoever biden's going to choose is going to be like her, like there's something uniquely wrong with her. right? what sets her apart from the other people who are on the court? and it's the fact that she's not white. or that she's not -- you know, she's hispanic. and so i think that they're clearly showing us what they believe. and by the way, can you find a single clip of ted cruz complaining about racism against
overcome the prejudices and voted against him, but 47 senators did vote to confirm the highly qualified justice brandeis. this week's confirmation hearings were held in the spirit of the first confirmation hearings. there are not about qualifications, they were about venting the prejudices and rage of republican senators who never once questioned judge ketanji brown jackson qualification for the supreme court. the committee has never held a confirmation hearing for more qualified nominee for the supreme court. and yesterday's most outraged questioners of judge jackson proved today how much they don't care about qualifications by not even showing up for the panel of expert witnesses from the american bar association who testified this morning about judge ketanji brown jackson's qualifications for the supreme court. senator graham didn't show up, senator shook cruised, interrupt senator hawley didn't show up, senator cotton didn't
answer a single question from a senator, about anything. not one of them had confirmations. not one. at least one of those people was confirmed from the senate, the day after he was nominated. that's how easy it was. in 1916, kim the first jewish nominee for the united states supreme court, harvard law school graduate, louis, and that is when the confirmation hearing had to be invented. the white christian men of the senate wanted to ask questions of the first jewish nominee to the supreme court. after justice brandeis was confirmed, the senate stopped act skin questions for decades. they had no questions for stanley read, in 1938. the last supreme court justice who did not graduate from law school. only in the television age, did confirmation hearings become routine for supreme court justices, and that, was
had to answer a question from a single senator before they were sworn in as chiefs of justice. no one ever questioned the qualifications of the member of the supreme court. for the first 127 years, the supreme court was in operation when every member was a white christian man, and every other kind of person was excluded from that competition. supreme court was an extreme form of affirmative action for white, christian men. then, in 1916, senate confirmation hearing was invented for the first jewish nominee, harvard law school graduate louis brandeis and who was nominated to supreme court where some of the members did not graduate from law school. those confirmation hearings were not about justice brandeis is qualifications, they were about venting the prejudices of united states senators. in the, and 22 senators cannot
americans. >> our friend jen said it. >> justice brandeis said sunlight is the best disin disinfectant. what did they obtain in may an internal facebook document. this is what facebook says about their algorithm and how they make money off hate. facebook's memo says our algorithm exploit the human brain's attraction to decisiveness and left on check it will feed users more and more divisive content to gain user attention and increase time on the platform. facebook makes more money if they can divide us against each other and feed misinformation, they make more money still. they got to stop. that's what i hope our president and everyone will start talking about. >> scott, i'm not going to quote justice brandeis because i couldn't think of one off the top of my head but no matter what words biden uses, this is a real problem. millions of people get their
there's all sorts of crazy stuff being sold as modern art these days at high prices but these prices are quite outrageous. third, the agreement that was reached with the art dealer who sells art for silver stressed alone, the deal the white house reached with the art dealer where they are going to keep the buyers secret and we don't know who the buyers are and this doesn't work because people can imagine and it might be true that this art could end up in some palace or sheik in saudi arabia, nobody is going to know. as justice brandeis once said, sunlight is the best disinfectant and wanting you don't want to do in the ethics arenas teach something secret, have all the cards on the table and if he is going to sell the art which i don't think he should be doing, people should