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Day as legitimate political discourse. congresswoman lisa brick house key, one of seven senators who voted to impeach donald trump after the riot is calling out the rnc for trying to legitimize the violence that happened that day, and arkansas governor asa hutchinson called the century wrong, saying it undermines respect for the rule of law. yet former president donald trump released a statement last night, congratulating the rnc for their vote. all of this comes on the heels of former president...

Himself said in a statement with a couple of days ago, overturn the results of what we know to be a free and fair election. thats where he has the visibility of what did he want? what happened with the election? how is he viewing january 6th? and that is the real value. >> i want to switch gears, kimberley and talk about the supreme court nomination. the presidents going to be meeting with the top democrat and senator grassley, the former chair, kwhooz now the ranking member, about the process g...

Political discourse. >> well, lets break it down for what normal americans consider legitimate political discourse. if a neighbor showed up with a machete and handgun and noose, would you say, well, lets have a conversation about this or would you call the police? no, thats a violent way to handle something. and thankfully, jonathan, i was heartened yesterday when the dean of the house, don young, of alaska, a republican, really denounced what the rnc had said and said that was absolutely not le...

Legitimate political discourse to describe january 6th. several senators including murkowski, romney, and larry hogan, either criticized or question the movement to censure the two lawmakers. some members of the party are indeed taking issue with the rncs characterization of the capitol attack as legitimate political discourse. >> did you see legitimate political discourse that day. discourse. i did >> did you believe january 6th was in any way legitimate political discourse. >> no, it was illeg...

Time since, say, may or june of 2016. mike pence said donald trump was wrong for claiming the former vice president could have overturned the election. several republicans have spoken out. among them, new jersey governor chris christie and senator marco rubio agreeing with pence. we reported on mitch mcconnells reaction to the rnc censuring of cheney and kinzinger. asa hutchinson said it undermines the rule of law. alaskas murkowski. the censure was called a, quote, sad day for the party, accord...

Republicans who voted for her in the last confirmation round, collins, murkowski and graham will vote for her again. that is a good place to start. and the next phase of this confirmation process im told is going to begin in earnest this afternoon. after she is announced at the white house around 1:45 or 2:00, that could change, depending on events happening in the world, of course, but after that, the confirmation process is going to begin. shes going to be sitting down with senators, democrats...

The ukraine crisis right now. what is success for them on a bipartisan vote here? just anything more than she got the first time? and she got 53 the first time, which meant she got three republicans, collins, republica, collins, murkowski and lindsay graham. >> yeah, he did want a strong bipartisan vote, and that seemed to be one of the tea leaves that folks wanted to read as potentially elevating chiles in this process. and mitt romney was interesting in talking about his conversation with the ...

By faith. >> jacksons resume includes harvard undergrad and law school. a clerk s&p with justice breyer the very man she hopes to replace. justice breyer, please know that i could never fill your shoes. and. >> and years on the federal bench there will also be plenty of attention on her years as a federal public defender. her pro bono representation of several guantanamo bay detainees. and her membership u.s. sentencing commission. less than a year ago she breathed through confirmation d.c. circ...

People who have now her fate in their hands and all three times it worked out. shes ready. >> last time she got collins, murkowski -- >> thats right. >> you pointed out on twitter that judge jackson has almost nine years have judicial experience, which is more than chief justice roberts, as well as justices barrett and others. how might that impact the dynamic of the court were she to be confirmed? >> it will impact it a lot. you heard her talk about the experiences, the public defender experien...

Price russia perceives. people say theres always china, and when theres one customer you get a worst price than when there are a lot of customers. >> and what is your take? >> venezuelan oil, and venezuela is an ally of russia, but we are seeing a lot of shifting alliances right now. banning russian energy, you will see that vote, in the house a vote to do that. manchin and murkowski in the senate are leading 18 senators. maybe its symbolic or not, but wont be symbolic is prices at the pump are ...