[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si
Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate you being here promptly. As you know, our democratic my democratic colleagues are not participating, it will be my choice ttee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge judgeour days merrick four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. Each of you, when this is over, hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that make everything you go through matter. Wheremoments like this you can tell young conservative place at the a table for you. Th
Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate you being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the committee they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge judgeour days merrick four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. Each of you, when this is over, hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that make everything you go through matter. Wherem
Good morning. Thank my colleagues for being here promptly. Democratic colleagues informed us last night that they would not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my vote my joist about the nominee out of committee. We will not allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate, after allowing judge Coney Barrett four days, two days to be questioned i thought she did a good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not i want toately, and complement my colleagues for not going down the Brett Kavanaugh road. And i want to complement the republican members of this committee for asking questions that mattered to you, showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. And each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like you have a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that make everything that you go through matter. Th
Later, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talks about the Trump Presidency and his new book leading america. Host u. S. Seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday completed her two days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee in consideration of her nomination to serve on the u. S. Supreme court. Is thursday, it october 15, 2020. This is washington journal. Outside Witnesses Today with a full Committee Vote a week from today. The full Senate Voting the week of october 26. We will spend this first hour asking you a simple question, should Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court . If you support judge barrett the 202 7488000, if you , ifse, it is 202 7488001 you are undecided 202 74880 2 2. Wj. Twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. We will play some of the highlighted questions from some members of the Judiciary Committee in this first hour. The reporting this morning in the wall street journal on the hearing and what is ahead in th