friedrich and advancing the nomination of mr. katsas later today. i urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting their nominations.

for more on the effects of a global more warming we're joined by climate researcher carl friedrich schweizer from climate analytics at the nonprofit climate policy institute and he is in bonn for the u.n. meeting mr slicer thank you very much for joining us we saw in that report how a lot of americans believe that climate change is a hoax and that scientific findings haven't really been able to convince everyone that it is manmade so how clear is the evidence really. the evidence and climate change that it's manmade is absolutely clear is on every vocal that humans are causing this chain change and we see it all over the globe we see ice sheets melting the sea marine heat of a sea of unprecedented scale you see extreme events occurring that we have never had before the evidence is the evidence base for this statement is absolutely clear and there's no doubt from a scientific perspective on that so it's unequivocal you're saying and the u.n. is also reporting that two thousand and seventeen is on course to be one of the three hottest years on record it's also been a year of extreme weather as

of rule 22, the cloture motion filed on the katsas nomination ripen following disposition of the friedrich nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. >> and things to for their cause to friendship and their faith in our innocence and i wish my dear friend success in his continuing search for justice. i want to thank my a defense team as well as the attorneys as well as the premier defense attorney who tore apart the government's case and his partner was a former prosecutor turned advocate for justice and mr. brown whose insights were invaluable and his associates who gave their total commitment to our cause. and also to the defense team for their valuable roles. also to the jury the most well from new jersey who saw through the false claims to use common sense and reject the appreciate their service and sacrifice and their time away a lot to think my colleague cory booker supporter from day one and was here on the first day of trial who came in testified wa

consider two well-qualified nominees to serve on the federal district courts, donald coggins and dabney friedrich is the experience and temperament to excel as judges. both of these individuals have stellar legal credentials. their careers demonstrate a serious commitment to the law. and by confirming them both the senate will continue to ensure that the federal judiciary fulfills its particular role in our constitutional system. i'd like to thank chairman grassley for his leadership of the senate judiciary committee which reported both of these nominees on a voice vote. i look forward to advancing their nominations very soon.

this concerns the case of karl friedrich miller, the evidence against thin includes a number of lettershich is hidden by the secret or invisible ink. if you scan through the file and flick through a number of pages, you'll even find the lemon he used to write the letters. this relates to suffrage and women's rights. he is a woman who went by the alias of irony. she was willing to give a life in prison, forcibly fed in prison. from tomorrow, archives nationwide will be open and we can explore. who knows, the next big discovery could be yours. do not touch the biscuit. handwritten letters might have seen something consent to the history books for some of the new generation. a school at kidderminster has teamed up with two local care homes to launch an intergenerational pen pal scheme between residents. what do you think the exciting post might be? the pen pal letters ? the exciting post might be? the pen pal letters? the pupils are eager to see what their pen pals have to say. dear jazmine. see what their pen pals have to say. dearjazmine. thank see what their pen pals have to say. dear j

friedrich and advancing the nomination of mr. katsas later today. i urge all of my colleagues to join me in supporting their nominations. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dewitt. the presiding officer: without objection. -- be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: first, i welcome you, the senator from texas, and all of our colleagues back after the thanksgiving break. i had my parents, 94 and 89, at our thanksgiving dinner with all their children and grandchildren and cousins and thises and thats, so i had a lot to be thankful for. i'm blessed to have my mom and dad see their whole family and be so happy about it. but now we're back, and we have a lot of work to do before the end of the year and precious little time to do it. funding for the government expires a week from this friday. 800,000 dreamers are waiting

berger makes all his pieces and his dusseldorf studio the goldsmith learned his techniques from friedrich bakker the inventor of kinetic jewelry. michelle berger often has to work through a number of designs and prototypes before such a piece functions as intended. unseen tiny ball bearings axles and screws are at work here i never use magnetism even if many people assume that at first it's all precision mechanics that has to be crafted very carefully so that this gloating effect comes about. because. michelle burger works with coated stainless steel gold silver and precious stones his rings cost more than a thousand euro's men and women alike can wear his jewelry berger is fascinated by people's differing perceptions. responses are a bit polarized i have to say some people say it's great but it would drive me batty. others say it really calms me down but we close out so people have extremely divergent responses i mean you know they definitely respond and that's positive but all their point this is a kind of jewelry that doesn't leave anyone cold it so i'm quite content because it's not j

berger makes all his pieces and his dusseldorf studio the goldsmith learned his techniques from friedrich bakker the inventor of kinetic jewelry. michelle berger often has to work through a number of designs and prototypes before such a piece functions as intended. in the times to unseen tiny ball bearings axles and screws are at work here i never use magnetism even if many people assume that at first it's all precision mechanics that has to be crafted very carefully so that this gloating effect comes about. because. michelle burger works with coated stainless steel gold silver and precious stones his rings cost more than a thousand euro's men and women alike can wear his jewelry berger is fascinated by people's differing perceptions. responses are a bit polarized i have to say some people say it's great but it would drive me batty. others say it really calms me down so people have extremely divergent responses you know they definitely respond and that's a positive definition of their point this is a kind of jewelry that doesn't leave anyone cold so i'm quite content because it's not jewe

berger makes all his pieces and his dusseldorf studio the goldsmith learned his techniques from friedrich bakker the inventor of kinetic jewelry. michelle berger often has to work through a number of designs and prototypes before such a piece functions as intended. times to unseen tiny ball bearings axles and screws are at work here i never use magnetism even if many people assume that at first it's all precision mechanics that has to be crafted very carefully so that this gloating effect comes about. because. michelle burger works with coated stainless steel gold silver and precious stones his rings cost more than a thousand euro's men and women alike can wear his jewelry berger is fascinated by people's differing perceptions. responses are a bit polarized i have to say some people say it's great but it would drive me batty. others say it really calms me down so people have extremely divergent responses i mean you know they definitely respond and that's positive but all their point this is a kind of jewelry that doesn't leave anyone cold so i'm quite content because it's not jewelry for

but bob and friedrich from exploring the unbeaten path youtube channel decided to go back to fukushima're exploring a supermarket that seems to have been completely untouched. >> why aren't they wearing protective gear in. >> they have geiger counters and going into places where they feel safe. lot of deterioration has set in. you can see what looks to be bird droppings all over the computers and cash registers. they're running into cobwebs. >> who put the stuff on the floor? you said everything was relatively untouched. did the rodents get frisky? >> this is a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. it shook fukushima, as did the tsunami, and yes, looks like the rodents got to every morsel of fresh food. all of the meat coolers cleaned out. >> did they talk about the smell or maybe it dissipated, it was six years ago. >> it stnkinks. the rats got into some of the liquor, the bottles gnawed through. >> having a big old party in there, got to the sake. >> this video while fascinating, imagine how tough it would be from fukushima and watching this. >> i got to imagine this is very emotional but still

this file contains the case of karl friedrich miller, the evidence that is collected against him includes through the file and click through a number of cases you will even find the lemon he used to read those letters. this is an example of a file relating to suffrage and women's rights, this is the case of a woman called hilda burkett, who went by the alias of byron, she was one of the first women to be forcibly fed in prison and she talks about how she's willing to give her life if needed, it's a really great example of one of the personal stories that we have here at the archives. from tomorrow, archives nationwide will be asking us to get involved and to explore these amazing places. who knows, the next big discovery could be yours. robert hall, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here‘s louise lear. it was cold this morning, i did not wa nt to it was cold this morning, i did not want to say i told you so, but it was cold. lots of

disposition of the otting nomination, the senate vote on the pending cloture motions on the coggins and friedrich nominations in the order filed. if cloture is invoked, the postcloture time on the nominations run consecutively. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominations, calendar number 486 and 487. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: nominations, department of justice, bobby l. christine of georgia to be u.s. attorney for the southern district of georgia. david j. freid of pennsylvania to be u.s. district attorney for the middle district of pennsylvania. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate, if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, en bloc; the president be immediately notified of the senate's, a that no further motions be in order and that any statements relating to the nominations be printed in the record

currency mplets finally donald coggins and dabney langhorne friedrich thoughtful consideration of the nominees is an important job of the senate and we'll continue to get to work for the american people. i look forward to voting on each of them this week and i would urge my colleagues to join me. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: we are. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dismissed. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. i'm going to spend the bulk o

the trump administration wanting to put mic mull gayny in to head up the christian friedrich fpbc >>de sometime this week. mulvaney. restrain this agency which has been one of the few independent agencies that the trump white house has not been able to get under its control. mulvaney never liked the agency. he took a lot of money from big wall street banks and lenders so they want to stop this agency from really protecting consumers. they think if you just let banks and other financial institutions ordinary, reasonable, and prudent freely then it would help the economy. >> interesting to note as you mentioned back in 2015, mull say was very vocal that he didn't protect this. interesting he's now being appointed head of that. daniel litman. thank you. >>> the numbers are coming in and looks like americans are looking to shop this black friday. retailers reporting record figures as they prepare for round two of cyber monday today. jo ling kent has more. >> reporter: the door buster deals ushered in record breaking holiday shopping weekend. instead of in stores, much of the spending sur

consider two well-qualified nominees to serve on the federal district courts, donald coggins and dabney friedrich is the experience and temperament to excel as judges. both of these individuals have stellar legal credentials. their careers demonstrate a serious commitment to the law. and by confirming them both the senate will continue to ensure that the federal judiciary fulfills its particular role in our constitutional system. i'd like to thank chairman grassley for his leadership of the senate judiciary committee which reported both of these nominees on a voice vote. i look forward to advancing their nominations very soon. the presiding officer: under the previous order the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the otting nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of treasury, joseph otting of nevada to be comptroller of the currency. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent

when the german lutheran frederick friedrich and the british quaker henry hodgkins parted company, they vowed never to be at war with one another. f.o.r. was founded later in 1914 at cambridge, england, and the u.s. branch was founded a year later in november 1915 in garden city, new york. chultztial -- sigmund s was a war resister in germany. he was not mentioned yesterday. he was a chaplain to the kaiser. he was in faith charge of the death penalty. which was not executed on him. i'm going to divide up for history into two phases, one world war ii, i will call that non-resistance. and then a phase after world war ii more or less to the present. beginning, f.o.r. at least in this country was an interdenominational -- interdenominational if not protestant affair. starting in the at least in the 1920's united states. it took interfaith steps with collaboration between christian and jewish practitioners. still the dialogue was largely in christian terms. as when reinhold the board -- nibor, who had been an editor for publications and poke with the chair of the fellowship in r.e 1930's, br

for more on the effects of a global more warming we're joined by climate researcher carl friedrich slicer from climate analytics at the nonprofit climate policy institute and he is in bonn for the u.n. meeting mr slicer thank you very much for joining us we saw in that report how a lot of americans believe that climate change is a hoax and that scientific findings haven't really been able to convince everyone that it is manmade so how clear is the evidence really the evidence and climate change that it's manmade is absolutely clear is on every vocal that humans are causing this chain change and we see it all over the globe the sea ice sheets melting the sea marine heat of a sea of unprecedented scale you see extreme events occurring that we have never had before the evidence is the evidence base for this statement is absolutely clear and there's no doubt from a scientific perspective on that so it's unequivocal you're saying and the u.n. is also reporting that two thousand and seventeen is on course to be one of the three hottest years on record it's also been a year of extreme weather as

the road to serfdom by friedrich hayek, witness by whitaker chambers, an extraordinary autobiography of an ex-soviet spy. economics in one lesson by henry haslett, a classic of its time. and a book which i had not read, "the law" by frederick bostiat. i learned later he was a 19th century economist, a free enterpriser and someone who had influenced many, many people including ronald reagan. i said, okay, maybe he hasn't read them. so i reached out and began taking the books out of the shelves. and anne said, no, no, don't do that. nancy may -- no, it's going to be okay. [laughter] picked them out, opened them up, dog-eared, underlined little phrases in the margin. he had read these -- i'm not saying that he read every book that closely, but those classics that i'm talking about, yes, he had. and here was a thinking, reasoning person who had arrived at his philosophy the old-fashioned way, one book at a time. and i said right then and there that reagan is an intellectual. he's an intellectual. he's comfortable with ideas. he understands the power of ideas. and with that kind of founda

mcconnell: i i move to executive session to consider calendar number 314, dabney friedrich. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of dabney languag languagehorn friedrick of california to be united states district judge for the district of columbia signed by 17 senators as follow -- mr. mcconnell: i ask consent the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum calls with respect to the cloture motions be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: only four days have passed since the terrible

coggins nomination and the confirmation on the friedrich nomination occur at 5:30 p.m. monday, november 27. if the nominations are confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i also ask unanimous consent that the votes following the first vote in the series be ten minutes in length. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: and i yield back the time on the otting nomination and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: without objection. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: testing testing vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their sloat vote if not the yeas are 53. under the previous order, the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of r

friedrich has a wealth of experience having been in private practice, served as an assistant u.s. attorney in both the eastern district of virginia and the southern district of california and has been confirmed twice by the senate as a commissioner of the u.s. sentencing commission. the judiciary committee also reported her nomination by a voice vote. these nominees will respect the rule of law on the federal bench, and they should be confirmed without delay. i'd like to again thank chairman grassley for his commitment to bringing the president's impressive judicial nominees to the floor. these are both respected nominees who have the support of members on both sides of the aisle, and i hope that we can consider their nominations without any partisan procedural hurdles. we should confirm them soon.