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Kavanaughs confirmation process will join us live in moments. and also republican senator john barrasso. >> john: what are we learning, david, about the suspect and the circumstances of the arrest. >> david: he is in federal custody, we dont have his name, hes from california, he has been in federal fbi custody and expected to appear before a judge in the next few hours. he was picked up outside kavanaughs home in maryland, the bethesda area, 1:42 the call came in from montgomery county police. ...

Regard to our democracy. >> talk about some of the solutions. what is the number one? >> i am not sure i can pick a number one. >> okay. pick one. >> like taking a favor trial. we talk about the supreme court. i think that we need to first expand the court to deal with the fact that two seats were stolen. i think we need to limit the number of years that people could serve on the supreme court. i just 18 years. its in the places where chief justice roberts and ayanna agree. he suggested 50. i sp...

Are antiabortion or participate, a lot of money spent. on it this is the one group that remains a single issue for voters. the promise that has been made is that we are going to be appointing justices that will overturn roe v. wade. the challenge -- a lot of the leaders of these groups have come to believe that to be the case. after a 50 year wait. but frankly, between you and i, which is mystifying to me the most is the answers the justices have given in the confirmation process. which are pret...

Decision was decided correctly. now he comes out in this draft opinion and, again, it is a draft opinion, and people are allowed to change their minds, but the fact that that draft opinion may have been written by the same person who said those words, suggests that he is suggesting that, no, no, no, it was decided wrong from the get go. that was not the answer he gave there. we know in supreme court confirmation hearings, time and again, one of the reasons that people are losing a lot of faith i...

And now theyve overturned. we know that confirmation process is a parlor game and doesnt mean a whole of a heck lot when you get on the bench. with roe, what they said and what theyre doing today are entirely inconsistent. >> what do you think, jeffrey? >> well, when donald trump ran for president, he said that in one of the debates with hillary clinton, it wasnt a big secret. he said im going to appoint justices on the supreme court who will vote to overturn roe v. wade. a lot of people said it...

To be put through the confirmation process so it is a challenge for this white house to be sure. andrea? >> indeed. and over the weekend, jim, senator schumer cited nypd data that ghost gun recoveries are up more than 50% in new york city alone and without the serial numbers theyre impossible to trace. will the biden plan make a difference? should there be more? should there be background chebs checks in order to even purchase these? >> in this scenario, atf is the ghost busters and the presiden...

At its helm. >> first, steve dettelbach is an experienced prosecutor, he served as a u.s. attorney. i know steve, i like steve and i trust steve. i think hes a fine choice to run atf. heres a caveat, hallie. atf only has about 2500 special agents, men and women who carry a badge and a gun. that makes him about 1/15 the size of the new york city police department. and so the solution to gun crime is not going to come solely from the atf or even solely from federal law enforcement. it comes from h...

You are no stranger to the travails that judge jackson endured in that confirmation process. just close us out by telling us, how does it make you feel as someone who worked hard for that moment to happen on the south lawn? >> you know, it makes me feel like our work is not in vain, first of all, it makes me feel like the hopes and dreams of the -- my mentor, the honorable shirley chiz chisolm elected to congress, it makes me feel like what she went to is working, even though we have to shatter ...

Ketanji brown jackson with the new justice conjuring up one of her predecessors. >> i want to say im so proud of you. i know youre going to do a great job. >> thank you. that means a lot. >> i know your confirmation process put you through the wringer but in the end, people did the right confirmation process put you through the ringer, but in the end, people do the right thing. >> 53-47. yeah. a lot of them walked out, and one guy kept asking me if babies are racist. you know it was. you should ...

The constitution really means for everyone. and finally ill just say, you know, having the lens and the perspective and lived experiences now of a black woman on the supreme court, i think it is going to really change our country. this is just one step in that arc of the universe bending toward justice. but think of what the country has lost without this, all these years. >> right. right. and congresswoman lee, through all the adulation there on the south lawn of the white house, president biden...