Today and two weeks later second and third graders, fourth and at that hearing room where weve seen Amy Coney Barretts fifth gradeers in november. Middle schoolers and high school children, her husband, family members. Students wont head back to a large hearing room where the campus until january. This all comes as california has Supreme Court confirmation seen a dip in covid19 hearings have taken place, but never like this in terms of positivity rates. Timing and what the country is going through. One of the senators seat. I did see some paws painted on in a moment well hear Opening Statements from the senators. The sidewalks and benches so theres Lindsey Graham, the kids are aware of where they republican chair of the Judiciary Committee talking to need to social distance six feet his counterpart, democrat dianne apart. Reporting live in palo alto, feinstein. Sharon katsuda, today in the the ranking democrat on this committee. As we watch this unfold, these bay. Thanks so much, sharo
Appear remotely. Senator Kamala Harris, you see there, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, who has been in close contact with the president while he has been sick and he is Walking Around talking to a number of the senators and guests gathered there. A quick timeline of how we expect this to go today. We will hear Opening Statements from members of the committee and judge barrett. The questioning begins tomorrow. We expect that to be quite heated. A Committee Vote is expected ten days from now. Lets bring in chief legal so goe re all right going to object to her qualifications, but they will be objecting to her judicial philosophy . And the process. I think you are going to see you could almost say the three as. You are going to hear about abortion, the Affordable Care act, and appoint. Kind of chicanery. Democrats will try to suggest she would overturn roe v. Wade, which of course said a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion. The Affordable Care act. The Supreme Co
Right now it appears on a pickup truck that parked at the shell gas station there let me quickly pull up a map for you just to show you this location, it is a very busy area. Lots of jobs around here, including shops and a lot of people are getting up right now and theyre running into basically 4 corners of police blocking it off because they want to make sure the scene is preserved for their homicide investigators. This is right off of one oh one now i want to show you whats going on reportedly this all went down at around 2 oclock in the morning. I want to continue showing you live pictures you can see there there are just off in the distance or on the other side of the intersection they have their lights on they have Police Officers Walking Around and i can tell you james and area because this is an area you can see right there theres that appears to be a white pickup truck that they keep walking round and round grayish white its hard to tell during time but you can see hes flashing
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, then on the collins amendment, number 3970, 87 votes aye, 9 nay. The amendment is carried. Ms. Collins move to lay it on the table. The presiding officer without objection. There are now four minutes of debate ms. Collins . A senator mr. President , the senate is not in order. A senator the senator deserves to be the presiding officer the senate will be in order. There will now be four mustnts of debate prior to resolution number in relation to a vote on amendment number 3897. Ms. Collins mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the votes follow the subsequent votes in the series be ten minutes in length. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Lee mr. President , unlike the collins amendment, which has just passed with broad support, my amendment would actually do something, would actua
Schoolage children is so different from a father of schoolage children, you know, there have been lots of john roberts was a father of schoolage children. Good point. When he became chief justice of the united states. I mean, so, yes, it is an interesting distinction, and it is, you know, it is worth pointing out that the fact that shes a good mother, the fact that she has an admirable family, the fact that she, you know, has had an kpefexemplary are ways of distracting from the fact that the conservative agenda on the Supreme Court is not popular with the American People. That the American People dont want to see roe v. Wade overturned. They dont want to see samesex marriage banned again. So, you know, it is no coincidence that republicans want to talk about those issues because the actual work of the Supreme Court is something that was actually what this hearing is about, and their position is not that popular. Two very good points. Two things, joan, to you. Its going to be totally u