In a primetime reveal President Trump unveiling judge neil gors b uch. Democrats and republicans come together for once as the good of the country. I look forward to speaking with members from both sides of the aisle. Setting up a battle and democrats vowing a confirmation fight after the late Justice Anthony scalia was blocked for ten months. If i conclude he is on issues like privacy rights including Womens Health care or roe v. Wade or worker and Consumer Protection i will use everything at my disposal to block his nomination. The fall out continuing with more than 900 state Department Diplomats signing a memo of descent against the travel ban. House Speaker Paul Ryan admitting the roll out was unusually rough. It was confusing but on a go forward basis im confident that secretary kerry is going to make sure that its done correctly. John kelly is in charge of implementing the action. A action he defended despite chaotic scenes. It wasnt a surprise it was coming and then we implement
Jordan. Both of those meetings are the prelude to his highstakes meeting towards the end of this week with chinas president visiting donald trump, stakes mr. Trump has raised by saying the u. S. Might act alone if china doesnt get suffer when it comes to north korea. A lot to get to this hour and a lot were keeping our eye on, a lot of moving parts. Lets talk about the next step right now for neil gorsuch and his nomination. That takes us back to capitol hill. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty and arian de vogue are covering all aspects of this for us. Sunlen, theyre under way, theyve been debating for a little under an hour northwest in the Senate Judiciary committee. What have we learned so far . Reporter kate, the big news coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing so far this morning and theyve been under way for about an hour now is that the Ranking Member on that committee, democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, for the first time announced how shell vote. She says she opposed Neil Gor
Health care bill. It is on. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell working on the art of the deal put but some gop holdouts. If there is a vote on thursday he may not have enough vote to get that bill through the senate. This comes as President Trump is slamming democrats resistance of the health plan. Watch. Their theme is resist. Their theme should be lets get together and develop but their theme is resist. Its obstruction. The problem is they become obstructionists and the voters happen to like it. Also, President Trump is criticizing the Obama Administration on the russia hacking allegations in the runup to the 2016 election, accusationing the administration of not taking action to stop it to help Hillary Clintons president ial run. We are covering this story from all angles with ryan nobles and brian stealther. What else are we hearing from the president today. Reporter the president has a big fight this weekend and not just democrats but the republicans who are nervous of the bil
Busy day. Good to be with you, my friend. Good to have you. An overhaul of the nations code code. The Senate Passing the gop bill overnight. The last undeclared republican, jeff flake, voting yes. The house expected to follow suit in a revote approving this bill that polls show is deeply unpopular with the American People. President trump already spiking the football praising what he calls the biggest tax cut in history. He plans to hold a News Conference at the white house this afternoon. A looming Government Shutdown is flying under the radar somewhat. Unless a spending bill is passed before midnight friday, funds for federal agencies run dry. A shortterm stopgap measure may be their best hope. And donald trump jr. Trying to discredit the russia investigation tells a group of young conservative activists that the probe surrounding dads campaign is being fueled by government higherups trying to block his political agenda. A lot going on. Joe johns live at the white house to start us o
She will cooperate. Ramirez says kavanaugh exposed himself to her when they were at yale together. The fbi of course will also investigate the allegations made by kavanaughs first accuser, Christine Blasey ford. Today, the president repeated that he found ford credible. As she testified thursday, alleging kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, the president did not waiver in his belief that kavanaugh will sit on the Supreme Court. Theres never been anybody thats been looked at like judge kavanaugh. I think that its going to work out very well. The fbi i believe is doing a really great job. They have been all over. They have free rein. Theyll be doing things we never even thought of. And hopefully at the conclusion, everything will be fine. Actually this could be a blessing in disguise, because having the fbi go out and do a thorough investigation, whether its three days or seven days, i think its going to be less than a week, but having them do a thorough investigation, i actually think wil