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Go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arrived prepared with visuals. among them, excerpts from a book for children called anti-racist baby. senator cruz seemed intent on questioning judge jackson about critical race theory. what, may i ask you, do you think the point of that was in oh, say, claire, a midterm election year? >> yeah. it was really awkward. ted cruz knows better...

0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing,...