well, this week congress once again failed to authorize a massive covid-19 relief package, which left the biden administration in limbo on one of its top requests this spring. before lawmakers departed for a two-week recess, they were able to make progress on other agenda items, including passing two bipartisan bills to punish russia for invading ukraine and confirming president biden s supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson. let s take you to capitol hill now and cnn s daniil la diaz who s live for us. da nela, why did congress leave town before passing this covid relief bill? it s an age-old story where they could not agree on a
according to c.d.c. guidelines. i guess a kiss ain t close enough. last night the president tested negative for covid. sandra. sandra: rewind a year ago, that would not be the case. we wish her well. senators set to vote on president biden s pick for the supreme court. how many will vote to confirm? we will take you there when this happens. and the house g.o.p. digging deeper into the hunter biden scandal and demanding answers from former intelligence operatives. miranda devine wrote the book and she will join us. john: can ukrainian forces get there before he takes more territory? and what, if anything, is the world prepared to do about atrocities committed by russia? we ll talk to one of the top combatant commanders, general david patraeus.
lemon pledge and whatever a burned joint or whatever. ten seconds. speaking of someone who does not eat a lot of meat outside of taco bell, don t change what s working. pizza hut does not have garlic crust anymore. leaves everyone sad. let s go to chic-fil-a after this. great to see you today. america reports next. sandra: fox news alert, live to capitol hill, historic supreme court confirmation vote is set to happen a short time from now. president biden s supreme court nominee, judge brown jackson needs a simple majority vote. john: critics say she ll be one of the most liberal judges ever, but three republicans have said they will vote aye. will any others join them?
welcomed. john: jonathan turley, she will be the second youngest justice on the supreme court behind amy coney barrett, she s 51 years of age. if she serves as long as stephen breyer or ruth bader ginsburg, she could be on it over 30 years. over the course of time the make-up of the court changes. is this, over the course of time, if we look at the significance of the passage of time to quote the vice president, over time, her judicial philosophy and her views could become an issue. yeah, they could, picking up on what shannon said, might be an immediate change in the balance on the cafeteria committee, but not necessarily the court itself. she is swapping out for a liberal vote. expected to have a voting
these individuals the way that we generally see attorneys represent any individual, to bring their perspective to the bench. because of the sensitivity of the issue of the accused terrorists held at gitmo, that was front and center in this. i would also just sort of take a step back and look at the way that these issues unfortunately are always approached in the course of these of this environment we live in. we had the president come forward and say i will choose a black woman for the supreme court. he wanted to make history in the way that bret just spoke about and indeed that s what we are seeing here, and there are very positive things to be saying about the breakthrough on that front. but when you look at other past cases there were times when joe biden prevented janice rogers brown from getting on to that same court that judge ketanji jackson served on. and it was not seen that way. when there is a moment when the barriers are broken through it