judiciary committee. i want to bring in carol mosley brawn and also daniel holly walker, dean of the howard university school of law whose name was also floated as a possible supreme court nominee. ladies, i m privileged to have both of you on the panel tonight. let me begin with you carol mosley brawn because you have a unique perspective that i want people to hear. i mean, given the fact you were the first african american woman to the senate, the first woman on the senate judiciary committee, i do want to understand what this means to you and the significance of seeing now a black woman having a as a nominee to the supreme court of the united states. well, to begin with, thank you very much for having me tonight to express my views. i am overjoyed that she has been nominated. judge jackson is imminently qualified on every front. this should be, a quote, bulletproof nomination. but the fact is that some of the republicans have decided to make
carol mosley brawn. she primaried her democratic senator because he voted to confirm clarence thomas to the supreme court the year before. i thought clarence thomas was a decent man, and i did not agree with the view of those that thought that he would have done anything like anita hill claimed. so i ll be honest with you, as a lawyer, that was my view. i followed by conscience. and i paid the price. that price being his senate seat. brawn defeated the two-term incumbent. the former senator from illinois. carol moseley brawn. tell me what was going through your head watching the anita hill hearings back in 1991? thank you, chris, for that question. my entire life path was made possible because of the warren
running for office. 1992 saw a surge in female candidates thanks in part to the clarence thomas nomination hearings which saw the five women elected to the united states senate, including a young african-american woman named carol mosley brawn. she primaried her democratic senator because he voted to confirm clarence thomas to the supreme court the year before. i thought clarence thomas was a decent man, and i did not agree with the view of those that thought that he would have done anything like anita hill claimed. so i ll be honest with you, as a lawyer, that was my view. i followed by conscience. and i paid the price. that price being his senate seat. brawn defeated the two-term incumbent. the former senator from
calling out for freedom and democracy, i think we have a responsibility to respond. and speaker boehner adds the u.s. needs to lay out a plan for egypt s president hosni mubarak. lift the state of emergency and announce that free and fair elections will take place in september. brian? all right, kelly, thank you very much. we ll see the message, we ll cover everything as it happens. meanwhile we ve got the rest of the headlines from this monday morning. analysts are reporting that pakistan has doubled its nuclear arsenal in the last couple of years. studies from an international security group claims pakistan now has 100 weapons manufactured and ready to fire. this poses a problem for the obama administration which is trying to maintain good relationships with pakistan which is, of course, a key ally in fighting terrorism over there. early voting starts in chicago s mayoral race, the frontrunner rahm emanuel was a no show at a heated forum. former u.s. senator carol mosley
race last month. davis says clinton might be jeopardizing his relationship with the african-american community for backing emanuel instead of a black candidate. former u.s. senator carol mosley brawn, the only african-american candidate running against emanuel is also blasting clinton s visit saying emanuel is a chicago outsider and he s bringing in another outsider to help him. meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl from new york is now home from the hospital after getting trapped in freezing cold water for 10 minutes. sarah talhammer walking her neighbor s dog when the pup made a mad dash for the bank. sarah chased the dog 30 feet out and the ice gave way. amazingly, someone heard her cries and dialed 911. i was struggling. i was trying to get out of the ice. i was kind of sliding along the ice. she couldn t move and i got close enough and basically threw me a rope and they were pulling us in. we fell through the ice as we got closer to shore. the ice thinned out.