joining me now brett thomas, co-founder of cavu venture partners an investor in beyond meat, he is here with leslie picker and a deety roy has a look at the fierce competition that beyond meat will face. brett, let me start with you and, i mean, what do you make of this trading that we're seeing >> i think if you look at beyond meat and what's going on in the world, right, obviously there has been a secular shift in health and wellness, people want to feel better about themselves, people want to upgrade their diets as well as what they put in their body and on their body. so i think, you know, the adoption of plant-based is getting more and more mainstream by the day. >> sure. >> if you use an analogy, right, you know, dairy category, for instance, is a $16 billion category in the u.s. and the plant-based adoption for that category has been about 12%, 13%, so $2 billion or so meat is the largest category in food and beverage, about $270 billion alone in the u.s $1.4 trillion globally. >> okay. >> if you extrapolate the same type of adoption that's happened in plant-based milks in dairy,

but u have replaced advice a consent with search and destroy. >> narrator: clarence thomas had invoked race. now brettaunched a partisan attack on the democrats. >>his whole two-week effor has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent-up anger about present trump, revenge on behalf of the clintons, and millions ofey dollars in mrom outside left-wing opposition groups. >> it has become this completely he took the allegations away b from christisey ford and turned it into a huge fight between democrats and republicans. he's trying to rally all the republicans to his side. >> narrator: kavanaugh had become a combatant in the war between republicans ands. democr >> does this reflect what you are? does this yearbook reflect your focus on... >> narrator: they squared off over his high school yearbook. >> that's easy, yes or no, you don't have to filibuster... >> oh, no, no, no, no, no, you got this up, i'm going to, i'm going to talk about my high school... no, no, i'm going toalk... >> let him answer! >> i'm going to talk about my high school record if you're going to sit h

with administrative states skeptic, brett kavanaugh now on the court and with x thomas clerk and x trump d regulations replacing him on the appeals bench, we can hope for more sanity on this topic courts in the future. let me finish this train of thought with a virtuoso thomas opinion from last year. his descent of the u.s. in this case, the justice takes on the third and last act in the courts attack on the framers constitution. the ever bolder license with which those presumed to make up the law with no prompting from either congress or the preside president, the claim that greeted the court first excursion into this abracadabra under chief justice on the board, he bolted to ever wilder flights, fancy from connecticut to roe v. wade as discussed in my book. carpenter is much less but it is delicious nonetheless. career onto robert carpenter claims that police use of cell phone location data in convicting him had violated his fourth amendment protection against unreasonable search. the framers had no cell phones. so here's the case made for woodrow wilson's work. chief justice howard ha

closer to more restrictions on abortions, but to your point on the clarence thomas statement, he was by himself. neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh, our two newest justices who have sided with clarence thomas on other things, did not go as far as clarence thomas was going. >> did not go as far as clarence thomas. you have abortion rights and transgender rights. they have come up on the campaign trail as well which gives you the supreme court's caution of sort of telling and interesting. let's listen to a flavor some of the democrats. they have been watching whether it's missouri, alabama, the indiana law in the pipe line, other states moving to restrict abortion rights. democrats saying we need to change presidents. >> we understand that women have a constitutional right to control their own bodies. >> as president i will make sure that every nominee and every federal bench including the supreme court understands and believes the 1973 decision "roe v. wade" is the settled law of the land. >> these judges have taken an oath to uphold constitution, and "roe v. wade" is constitutional. >> this is about basic human and civi

brett kavanaugh, neil gorsuch will be joined by roberts and clarence thomas and samuel alito, this is a victory rick and others have been fighting for decades and they won and they should celebrate. >> rick, senator santorum, a, i want you to respond to what jeff said. also the idea that a rapist that gets someone pregnant could get less jail time than a doctor performing an abortion. does that make sense? >> yeah, it does make sense. we're ignoring the other person in the situation, and that's the child. the rapist according to the supreme court, someone that's convicted of a violent, horrible, whatever, doesn't matter, all rapes are horrible, take the most horrible rape and according to the supreme court, the death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment, but the child who is conceived as a result of that can be killed. and that to me is a house divided. you can't say somebody commits a horrible crime, doesn't receive a death sentence, but a child that's innocent does, and that's why you're seeing, anderson, people don't realize this law, roe vs wade has been in effect for 50 years

are probably three votes on the court now for that, clarence thomas, samuel alito and perhaps neil gorsuch even if the other trump nominee, brett kavanaugh, were to join them, they would still need the chief justice john roberts he has often shown an aversion to sudden changes in the law obviously the court's four liberals are worried about this. on monday they joined a dissent written by stephen breyer in a totally unrelated case it had nothing to do with aborti abortion he said the court seemed too willing to overturn long standing precedents without a compelling reason. he says precedent gives stability to the law and deserves respect and he mentioned the ruling that upheld the abortion write. breyer wondered which cases the court will overturn next. greg, savannah >> pete, thank you. >>> another major story breaking overnight. the state department ordering all non-emergency employees to get out of iraq. that comes amid escalating tension with iran. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engle with the latest on that good morning. >> reporter: this story continues to grow this morning the state department making that orde

brett kavanaugh, expressing some disappointment of him not being a pure conservative, the point i would make is you really don't know exactly how they will line up. you probably know how clarence thomas will line up, you probably know how some of the liberal justices will line up, but there are some gray areas among several members of the court. i don't think the alabama case ever reaches the supreme court of the united states and if i was someone in the country watching c-span of a decidedly pro-life point of view, i would be disappointed that alabama has done what it has done. i would be disappointed been very has done what it has done, because those cases are very easily dismissed. the more difficult cases for the court to grapple with are those that limit access to abortion providers. host: let me put another issue on the table. piece, this is the headline -- numbers 44 and 45 broke the mold. what does that mean for the future of the presidency? centurieshan two until the election of 2008, american presidents all looked alike. they were white and male and each one came to office with experience in military. the african-american -- barack obama, the first african-american presiden

brett kavanaugh, expressing some disappointment of him not being a pure conservative, the point i would make is you really don't know exactly how they will line up. you probably know how clarence thomasline up, you probably know how some of the liberal justices will line up, but there are some gray areas among several members of the court. i don't think the alabama case ever reaches the supreme court of the united states and if i was someone in the country watching c-span of a decidedly pro-life point of view, i would be disappointed that alabama has done what it has done. i would be disappointed been very has done what it has done, because those cases are very easily dismissed. the more difficult cases for the court to grapple with are those that limit access to abortion providers. host: let me put another issue on the table. piece, this is the headline -- numbers 44 and 45 broke the mold. what does that mean for the future of the presidency? centurieshan two until the election of 2008, american presidents all looked alike. they were white and male and each one came to office with experience in military. the african-american -- barack obama, the first african-american president brok