Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Recent allegations, are you willing to have this do it . The Witness Testimony is before you. No witness who was there supports that i was there okay, im going to take that as a no. Did you watch dr. Fords testimony . I did not. I plan to. Thank you. I plan to, but i did not. I was preparing mine. At the end of the day, donald trump sent this out. Quote, judge kavanagh showed america exactly why i nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest and riveting. Democrats Search And Destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham, an effort to delay and resist. The senate must vote. White house Deputy Press Secretary raj shaw added this. The president was thrilled with his testimony. He was strong. He was passionate. He was very convincing because he was telling the truth. The president stands firmly behind judge kavanagh. Judge kavanagh is the white
houses nominee for this open seat. Hes going to get confirmed. Let us bring in our lead off panel on a thursday nigh
We made a deal, the highly respected Prime Minister of canada and the president of mexico are satisfied with the deal. Its good for all three. This is good for all three. Thats just that fact makes it good for us. But this is good for all three. But this is a much different deal. Than nafta. This is much or of a reciprocal deal for the United States, which is really good. Yeah, go ahead, peter . Can we move on to kavanagh briefly . No, why dont you just well do the kavanagh questions, you talk about being treated harshly. Lets finish up trade, because you have a lot of people that want to run over to the Wall Street Journal and start writing. Will you take a question from a mexican journalist . A mexican journalist . Go ahead. So youre going to keep the tariffs on mexico and canada . Until such time that we can do Something Different like quotas perhaps, so our industry is protected. Were not going to allow our Steel Industry to disappear. It was almost done, i tell you what, if your c
Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
Nomination. Ive expressed my doubts as to whether or not it can survive. But in terms of how this is going to play out in the long run and whats going to happen next and how theyre going to deal with this allegation, i really feel like its a totally open road how this is going to happen. From your experience in the senate do you feel you know where this is going to end up or do you feel this is as open ended as i do . I cannot see where this is going to end up. Because of the elements of this that we really cannot at this stage figure out the power is of dr. Fords side of this. Ive been hugely impressed with how dr. Ford has handled herself in this matter since her name became public and what has been her first week in the National Spotlight and her intense National Spotlight. I dont know whether shes going to accept basically a bad deal from the Judiciary Committee. I wouldnt. I wouldnt advise her not to accept a bad deal from inJudiciary Committee in testifying. Im sure shell be gett