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That was correct. >> thank you very much. we now recognize senator lee. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, judge jackson, for being here. i want to talk today about some things you heard about yesterday. there was a lot of talk from members of this committee about judicial philosophy. i want to talk a little bit about what that means and why its important. well start with what it means at least to me. one of the things that you heard from a lot of members of the committee, whether they couch...

$200,000 and $300,000 and the stars earn about half a million dollars. now, compare that to the starting salary of a rookie nba player, which is about $925,000, and you quickly learn that theyre earning about seven times what the wnba players are earning. so imagine players can go to russia, for example, brittney griner can go to russia and earn about $1 million, jake. so brittney griner and many wnba players do it because they get to hearn a lot more money than they do here in the united states...

>> thank you very much. we now recognize senator lee. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you judge jackson for being here. i want to talk today about some things that you heard about yesterday. there was a lot of talk from members of this committee about judicial philosophy. i want to talk a little bit about what that means and why it is important. well start with what it means at least to me. one the this inks that you heard from a lot of members of the committee, whether they couched it in term...

Understand what the law is. while understanding that the idea of what the law should be is left to other branches of government. not to the judiciary. in this respect, we recognize that blind justice and blind justices, those who are blind to the things they are supposed to be blind to, are those willing to recognize that if theres a policy flaw in the law, and if theres a policy change that needs to be made, its not the role of the court to change it. that belongs to two different branches of g...

Realize that there are several hundred tons, several hundred tons of high level nuclear waste stored on site from four nuclear power plants, and this is a war zone. imagine what happens if a shell goes off course. instead of hitting an orphanage of a hospital, it hits one of the cooling ponds. at that point, cooling water could be lost, temperature rods begin to rise, then you have chernobyl 2.0. and just remember that throughout europe, theres panic buying now of antiradiation pills. theyre fak...

And interpret the law, understand what the law is. while understanding that the idea of what the law should be is left to other branches of government, not to the judiciary. in this respect, we recognize that blind justice and blind b justices, those who are blind to the things they are supposed to be blind to, or those willing to recognize that if there is a policy flaw in the law and if there is a policy change that needs to be made, its not the role of the court to change it. that belongs to ...

Is that she has taken positions that are right in line with the progressive wing of the democratic party. now, that is something that is of concern to me. concern to me because we know that tennesseans want to see a constitutionalist jurist. they want somebody who is going to be fair. they feel like lady liberty is blind, lady justice is blind. they want equal access to opportunity, to the courts, and equal justice for all. so when they hear some of this and they read some of this, they do have ...

Fixtures and journalists and translators and drivers, these amazing, smart, courageous people without those people, we could not do our job and america would effectively be blind in the world. >> sebastian, we appreciate having you on. thank you very much. well see you soon. up next, sanctions are hammering russias economy but how critical is all of this in ending vladimir putins war. plus, more from my exclusive interview with lloyd austin. what he says about russias stalled offensive. >> t...

City. one man is blind, he has nowhere to go even if he gets on an evaluation bus evacuation bus, and the russian shells were falling and exploding and the devastation is significant, buildings collapsing in on themselves and people stuck there and thats really what the ukrainian people are concerned about with the artillery in the distance, theyre worried that the scenes weve seen in mariupol and kharkiv. >> when you mentioned the devastation, weve seen russian forces to the northwest and north...

Criminal." >> thank you, that was correct. >> thank you very much. we now recognize senator lee. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you, judge jackson for being here. i want to talked to about some things you heard about yesterday. there was a lot of talk from members of this committee about judicial philosophy. i want to talk a little about what that means and why its important. well start with what it means, at least to me. one of the things that you heard from a lot of members of the committee...