washington will eventually tap john rutledge of south carolina. rutledge will come back to philadelphia this time and serve as chief justice. however, he is appointed during a recess of congress, and so technically the senate hasn't confirmed him but he actually serves a session of the court as chief justice and leads them through some cases. when the senate comes back later that year to return to session, they then take up the question of approving john rutledge. now, george washington's never had anyone rejected that he's appointed, so this has never happened in our young history. john rutledge has a couple of things going against him. there are guys in the senate that think the guy's a little crazy. he's had some kind of strange things that he's had to say in the years in the 1790s so he's got a reputation but also where he's going to get into trouble is he made very pointed comments about that j treaty that was negotiated by his predecessor. he was very critical in some speeches and they tended to be a bit of rambly speeches. he was very critic

john rutledge who is actually a signer of the u.s. constitution, actually one of the players in creating that constitution, is one of washington's first choices for the original six justices on the supreme court. he actually accepts, but then resigns the post without ever really having served on the supreme court. he will later become the first justice of the south carolina supreme court when john jay, who is the first united states supreme court chief justice, resigns. he's elected governor of new york. he leaves the post of chief justice. that leaves it empty. washington will eventually tap john rutledge of south carolina. rutledge will come back to philadelphia this time and serve as chief justice, however, he is appointed during a recess of congress, so technically the senate hasn't confirmed him but he actually serves a session of the court as chief justice, leads them through some cases. when the senate comes back later that year, to return to session, they then take up the question of approving john rutledge. now george washing

. >> let's continue this discussion bring in john rutledge, honorary professor at the chinese academynd global traveler. john, we look at uber, there's many more ubers out there. is it possible for a u.s. or western corporation to go into china and compete and win fairly? >> it's very difficult for a u.s. company to go in and set up if you don't have a technology advantage that can't be copied or taken away from you. that's really the problem. you know, china's got an overall strategy now of shrinking their manufacturing sector and increasing their service sector because that's where you'll end up with the most jobs productivity and growth. and that means that a service company comes in like uber and they try and, again, get a piece of it. which is what happened here. it's an increasingly hostile environment for american companies right now. >> don't we need to make a clear distinction though, john? because there have been a number of u.s. companies that have been very successful in china, but they found a local partner. that seems to be the difference between all of these companies t

john rutledge had a couple of things going on.re are guys in the senate thinking the guys are a little crazy. he had some strange things he had to say in the year of 1790. he got a bit of a reputation among people. he made comments about the jay treaties. he was very critical of some of the things he said about the senate itself. of course, senator would read the newspapers and they would read what the supreme court chief justice had to say about them. when he came from front of them, they would remember these sorts of things and decide perhaps, this guy is not the best choice to be the chief justice of the supreme court. even though he runs the court for a while. he was sent packing back home. the first rejection of the presidential nominee. here in philadelphia, you see the constitutions in a lot of different directions being explored and used for the first time and you go in our history and you see other achuroccurren when this happens. the one other power in the senate rather that's not going to get exercised here in philadelp