i ve got here today. i m going to start with you, tara, because the genesis of this story, and i think this is really key. the genesis of this biden pays for crack pipes story is from the washington free beacon. it is a conservative republican leaning newspaper outlet. what is the motivation for conservatives and republicans to promote these kinds of stories and this kind of misinformation in a news outlet? thanks for having me, jason. i think you went to me first because i m at your alma mater. there s that too. listen, this is part of the playbook, right? republicans understand how to gin up their base. they know that certain buzz words, certain cultural issues, certain issues around race, because let s be honest here, they chose the term crack pipe because i m sure that in those circles, that is a euphemism for urban, black crime. this is the way that people
ukraine. the move could be a risk for her safety and her career. she said that is not what is most important. i think it s not about sport or tennis right now. as andre said earlier in the tournament in dubai where he won, it s true we don t have to be i m not going to be selfish talking about sports and my career, which is very important to me. but right now it s more about our future and our life really. it s more than the sport right now. it really does seem all the russians who are out of the country right now and spree to speak are appalled by what they re seeing. . they are. and i think, you know, one of the things we keep hearing them say, the sort of buzz words, i m opposed to this war. i know they aren t calling out vladimir putin by name, but it is clear what they mean.
simply laughable. i think it looks silly when he was doing that. i think she was taken aback. i think anybody with a brain, and it was a good lawyer was taken aback. i thought chris coons did such a good job. talk about fighting buzz words with buzz words. he brought up a wall and hillary s e-mails. this judge had two cases with the wall and hillary s e-mails and decided against both hillary clinton s position and those people who didn t like the wall s position. because she did it just on the facts in front of her and the law as it applied to those facts. what a great rebuttal to all of the bs that somehow this is a partisan judge stalking in crt and other things into a judicial position on the highest court in the land. danielle, i wonder if you just say the phrase, critical race theory, enough times,
0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are claire mccaskill and msnbc political analyst with danielle holly walker, dean and professor at howard school of law and joyce vance, law professor at university of alabama as well as an msnbc legal analyst. we have a few minutes before we go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arriv
tucker: kamala harris is a charmless phoney with such contempt for your intelligence she expects you to believe that her fake laugh is real. that s bad. it s not a deal killer in politics. no one called richard nixon charming but he won the biggest presidential landslide in american history in 1970. but richard nixon was confident and had skills. kamala harris doesn t. kamala harris is incompetent. zero skills. never done anything. harris can t redecorate her own office. she tried and made it uglier. take her off the list. what about pete buttigieg? everyone at cnn loves him. until a few years ago pete buttigieg dated women. now he is gay and a father and uses many unintelligible buzz