do you talk with your republican colleagues about this? do you have any sense about the depth of republican concern? obviously if all democrats vote against him, he is still concerned unless a republican crosses over. and certainly this is the first stage in committee and more could happen on the floor. there isn t a lot of conversation because we had ten hours of hearing and sitting on opposite sides of the room and rushing on to the floor to start the health care debate which took us until 2:00 in the morning. and so it was a crazy day. but i would hope that my republican colleagues are hearing things that should really bother them. senator jeff merkley of oregon. nice to have you here in person, sir. come back soon. we ll be right back, stay with us.
you re pinning me to my chair today? no ma am, anything you want, ma am. wow. do not mess with dianne feinstein. you think she s old? you think she s brittle? dianne feinstein will crush you and bench press your corpse and accept your apology thereafter. absolutely unbelievable. 83 years old. one day off. but that was just one of a number of stranger than fiction unbelievable things that happened in today s news. take for example something that happened at that same hearing. it happened 14 minutes into the hearing for the new head of the cia. that hearing started at 10:00. then just before 10:15 democratic chairman of that committee mark warner started asking a question about russia, about russia hacking the election and then watch what happened. finally, as you know, chairman burr and i have
it s a sleep, you re getting the green screen, no audio but then look, it kind of oops. blink, blink. the camera opens its eyes, it s shaky. where am i? trying to focus. trying to figure out where it is. was i asleep on the train? was i drooling? who are these people? i must have been snoring. and this is the feed that we have of that hearing from that time. focuses on the back of that guy s head for a while. jiggles around, focuses on some different people. you can see it getting, like i know i m anthropomorphizing the camera here but it s hard not to. where am any how much time has passed? starting to get its bearings. goes on for several minutes before any of the audio comes back and then okay, it settles.
where am i? trying to focus. trying to figure out where it is. was i asleep on the train? was i drooling? who are these people? i must have been snoring. and this is the feed that we have of that hearing from that time. focuses on the back of that guy s head for a while. jiggles around, focuses on some different people. you can see it getting, like i know i m anthropomorphizing the camera here but it s hard not to. where am any how much time has passed? starting to get its bearings. goes on for several minutes before any of the audio comes back and then okay, it settles. ultimately the camera gets its bearings visually and sits like there like this for about 10 minutes with no audio before this happens. to ensure that i don t we don t end up with a light turn out again i won t redo my second half of my statement.
happened. i was just watching c-span and it got taken over by rt. and when it first happened, when we saw that tweet from him we were like could that possibly be a glitch? could that just have been on his computer? but, no, it happened, it happened for about 10 minut today. as of tonight, c-span says it still cannot account for how this happened. they can confirm this has never happened before in the history of the the c-span feed. but that happened today. as did the lights out and power cut in the other hearing. so welcome to your whole new world. who knows what any of that was about. our congressional producers nbc news congressional producers tonight tell us in terms of the mike pompeo hearing, the cia hearing, they say that power cut and the lights going out, that s still unexplained even now and that happened just after 10:00 this morning. the word from c-span is that the hijack by rt is as yet unexplained.