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Supreme court is not just how its going to approach other rights. how is it going to approach the question of overruling prior precedent on which some of us have come to rely. thats a different question today than 72 hours ago. >> and you convinced, steve is right, as you know, alito said just abortion. thomas says maybe otherwise. when will we know? >> i think well know sooner rather than later, frankly. as i said, i think state legislators are going to feel emboldened going forward, and i dont...

We ask a lot of our fishermen just put fish on the table, and when it comes to asking them to like, you know, avert world war three on our behalf. i think they deserve some backup. >> i could imagine irish government officials, irish foreign minister speaking to the russian ambassador in trying to explain the murphys to them and then eventually just giving up and bring on the murphys. let them talk directly to this guy. >> yeah. lets see how it goes next next week with your little exercises guys...

History of supreme court confirmation processes. we are going to see an audition for the united states supreme court. and that audition will be televised. it will be on television next week. on tuesday south carolina federal judge, michelle childs, will testify at her senate confirmation hearing for a promotion by president biden to the washington, d.c. court of appeals, the most important federal appeals court in the country. more supreme court justices come from that court than any other. pres...

Nominee, and where will there be, if any, holdups? what can we expect from this meeting happening just over two hours or now from now. >> reporter: yeah, that meeting is going to start here at 1:45 eastern time. the president will be hosting the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, a position that biden himself once held. dick durbin as well as the ranking member, the top republican on the committee, chuck grassley here at the white house. the president wants to consult with them to hear ...

On. and the fbi is weighing in with both feet on their choice, which is ketanji brown jackson. we should tell you that the next day, fbis diversity and inclusion office issued what it called an update. "the fbi must remain neutral in political nominations and confirmation processes. accordingly, a party for any nominee would be inappropriate. we apologize for any misunderstanding surrounding the publicity." not that we did it, but the use of how we misunderstood the publicity. there was no publi...

Many moments from democrats really aggressively -- >> could it have been a mistake? >> i think for booker, it was an opportunity! probably the best moment cory booker had since he came to the u.s. senate. i can hear the voices of his campaign staff saying, yeah, we handled that well. obviously his campaign -- a couple of years ago. >> yeah. for the future of supreme court, you know, confirmation processes, lindsey graham giving us a little bit of a hint this week that we could be in this broken ...

Company as those two people despite what most republicans say are her excellent qualifications. now, listening to not only today but also the confirmation hearings a couple weeks ago as well, this is just grudge after grudge, payback after payback between republicans and democrats on the committee. weve heard clarence thomas name, robert bourques name, amy coney barretts name who republicans say that the democrats mistreated those nominees. and so senator lindsey graham threatened to -- when rep...

Part -- >> i cant -- >> in mitten form? >> a policy process that was very well and deliberately run. >> well note that you didnt completely answer that. >> general milley, any written form? >> yes. >> would you make those available to us? >> make it available to the committee upon request and in accordance with the appropriate classify kagsz. >> we will do so. general mckenz, yes or no? >> yes. >> and you will make those available. >> based on guidance from the. >> each of you had committed to m...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

Justice kavanaugh is an honorable man, he is doing an honorable job on the supreme court. suet one more question i would ask you about this the less you about infrastructure. the democrats on the judiciary committee do they have access to the same information the republicans separated to the fbi only give certain information to republicans rated all senators have access to everything the committee has. blackburn: all senators had access to everything. and that is the way these confirmation proce...