los republicanos sin embargo, la retaron al traer de testigo a frank ritchie que demandó a la ciudad a la inversa. eliminó su examen de promoción porque afroamericanos no calificaron. >> hoy día se dijo orgulloso que 20 bomberos participaron en el proceso, otro demandante, el bombero puertorriqueño relató lo duro que estudio por meses para el examen. >> estoy indignado cuando no se me premia, si no que fue penaliza penalizado, me convertía es una estadística racial. la corte suprema falló a favor de los bomberos, activistas hispanas de new haven. >> todos los hispanos que he hablado están bien, bien tristes de que vargas ha decidido venir aquí a testificar en contra del nombramiento de la jueza. >> el alcalde de nueva york, michael bloomberg testificó a favor de la jueza. >> ha trabajado por 20 años para ayudar a las personas, tiene la capacidad. este senadorh@h@tvña sabia. >> siento haber ofendido a alguien, mi vida demuestra que no fue mi intención. >> la confirmación se da por sentada. >> todo está muy bien. y nosotros hemos estado como se dice. >> el comité podría votar el próxi

for example, frank ritchie should have been the whistle-blower on the hearings as the firefighter. norman and jane rowe should have been anita hill figure. they said no, she is a moderate leave it at that. >> washington post they were compiling how many blinks she gave during certain answers. it seemed like the coverage got a little vacuous at times. >> i love the washington post lead, she sought to reframe critics. judge was swayed by gender and ethnicity. please. she completely contradicted herself when she tried to explain her wise latina remark. instead of holding her feet to the fire, post, she sought to reframe the accusations of her critics. i think the republicans did a pretty good job to get their arguments in there. it was predicted you can't criticize a latina, people are more intelligent than that. instead -- remember when they had alito, they called him a racist until his wife left the room. they stuck to the substance and it was a respectful legitimate debate. >> i think the republicans were under cut by gingrich and buchanan who said she was a racist. it was out of c

the frank ritchie case, the discrimination case, it was supposed to be a central line of questioning. it really wasn't, was it? >> no, it really wasn't. because in the end, what you'd have to say if you were upset about the way that whole case was handled before it got to the supreme court, you'd have to say that sonia sotomayor should have taken it upon herself to reinterpret the law into advance the whole understanding of affirmative action, which is ultimately what the supreme court -- >> that's actually the inverse of what senator kyle and judge sotomayor discussed today. and that is that that president didn't rest, necessarily with the supreme court, but within the second circuit -- >> within the second circuit. so to ask her, how come you didn't change precedent within your circuit? it's a difficult case to make. especially if you want somebody who's not an activist. >> rather than retrying, i was going to the politics of the moment. let's go to politics of the moment somewhat more approximate, and that is the president's speech to the naacp. your reaction to it, the fact that i