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Published with permission of PRESS RUN, Eric Boehlert’s must-read media newsletter. Subscribe here. Anxious to engage in Both Sides whitewashing of journalism failures from the Trump era, some prominent journalists are lashing out at liberals for having the nerve to criticize news coverage of the Biden White House. Leading the defensive charge is New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who penned a condescending harangue over the weekend, claiming liberals are hypocrites for finding fault with the press when a Democrat is in the Oval Office. Embracing a straw man argument that Democrats "...

The full vote of the senate on his nomination. later this evening, the president will participate in a standing legislative affairs strategy meeting with his team who have been working closely with congress to enact the president's agenda. so far between the vice president and both parties and both chambers on a variety of issues from trade to members of the cabinet now to supreme court. will also conduct excessive outreach. clearly this administration has made reaching out to congress a top priority but you know where i'm going with that. democrats in the senate continue to use every tool at ...

For democrats to have a very hard time voting to help donald trump in any way. and so that's a dynamic you're seeing play out right now. craig? >> kasie hunt for us on capitol hill this afternoon, kasie, thank you. let's get to our justice correspondent pete williams for more on who this potential supreme court justice is. chuck grassley says we could expect hearings to start in about six weeks. which areas of his career are we likely going to see highlighted during this confirmation process? >> that's easy. all of them. the way these confirmation hearings work, craig, they are going to ask ab...

Now, the question then becomes, are there eight democrats who might be willing to vote with republicans to give them the 60 votes to allow them to hold the vote on this nomination once we get that far? and we're still in the early stages of trying to figure that out. there are some democrats who have already come out and said there's no way they are voting for him and that's, in many ways, an unusual thing. usually people wait until the hearings -- we go through the hearings, we learn more about the nominee. there are already democrats saying, no way are we going to vote for this guy. on the o...

Zero democrats present. democrats also boycotted epa designee pruitt's hearing. they're doing this -- they are doing their constituents and our country a disservice by resorting to these childish tactics. the president's cabinet nominees will be confirmed on the floor of senate once democrats actually allow them to get a fair vote. in other cabinet news, attorney general designee senator sessions was voted out of committee today. we look forward to his full vote as next attorney general. secretary of state rex tillerson designee is expected to receive a vote bit full senate this afternoon. fin...