Already building. I want to get right to Mike Emmanuel to take it from here. Mike . Reporter harris, good afternoon. Democrats think they may be able to extend the process a bit but dont seem confident they can derail this nomination. Today a key Senate Judiciary democrat spoke about what is at stake. Whats at issue is both this rush to partisan confirmation in which President Trump has told us hes choosing someone who will overturn roe v. Wade, hes choosing someone who will overturn the aca, and hes choosing someone who President Trump himself says he will need to put their thumb on the scales so that he can win the next election. Reporter judge Amy Coney Barrett is a 48yearold mother of seven from the great state of louisiana. If confirmed, she could sit on the high court for decades in the major of the legal issues facing this country. Barrett was on President Trumps list of judges, and a prominent republican issued this challenge today to joe biden. Joe biden ought to put his names
Try to end days of protests over the killing of a black teenager. And an icecold shower for the worlds richest man. Why bill gates is passing the bucket for motor neuron disease. The u. S. Says its carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group in iraq. The u. S. Central command said it is been targetting the group. Flights have been carried out by jets or drones, a dozen armoured vehicles have been damaged. Islamic state are targetting many minority communities in iraq. Members of the yazidi communities say fighters were stopped from attacking them. 80 have been killed there. Translation they separated women and children from the men, putting women and children in the haul, and the men on another side. They took the ids, gold and property. They took them and killed them until no men were left. They took the women by car towards sinjar. I dont know where they took them. Fighters from the Islamic State are accused of the brutal killing of at least 700 in syria. The syrian obse
Weather, traffic, erica . Good morning. Temperatures are cooler. It is not muggy just a bit overcast. Climbing into the 70s with 80s inland with the increase in fire danger. George . Good morning, there are no hot spots but we could see if we could recover from a vehicle that was stalled. It is impacting steady metering lights but the 880 is backed up westbound. 18 22 minutes, slow or. Stalled has been cleared. However, for the san mateo bridge and highway 92 snoozed. Delay free and incidentfree. And also, the golden gate is without fog. East palo alto are investigating a shooting on the street of emmet way. The teenager was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. They have not provided a suspect or motive. This live look at this shooting out of the senior assisted living center. Will tran. Reporter the suspect was shot by a Security Guard, not a Police Officer. This was near the almaden expressway around 1 30 he was here to visit his father. There were 4 suspects there were trying to
Winfrey aired last night, the disgraced seventime Tour De France winner confessed repeatedly to cheating throughout his cycling career. He showed little emotion throughout the interview. Armstrong explained why he didnt consider himself a cheater while he was taking a cocktail of drugs and blood transfusions. Was it a big deal to you . Did it feel wrong . At the time . Uhhuh. No. It did not even feel wrong . No. Its scary. Did you feel bad about it . No. Even scarier. Did you feel in any way that you were cheating . No. The scariest. I have this exercise where, you know, because i kept hearing that you were a cheat. Im a cheat. Im a cheater. I went in and looked up the definition of cheat. Yes. The definition of cheat, its to gain an advantage on a rival or foe that they dont have. I didnt do it that way. I viewed it as a level playing field. All right. So as part of this wideranging interview, oprah also asked armstrong about the lives he ruined in order to maintain his coverup, inclu
There. Sometimes the positions are being cut. This is creating an atmosphere where folks really dont know what comes next. And its impossible for anyone to speculate, because weve never been through a situation like this. Weve never seen this before. So certainly things are being pushed back, things are being put on hold and no ones quite sure what the next step is going to be. All right. Thank you. Ive been reading axios a. M. In just a little bit. You too can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us on this wednesday morning. Im yasmin. Morning joe starts right now. The world depends on are the w. H. O. To work with countries to ensure that Accurate Information about International Health threats is shared in a timely manner, and if its not, to infieldly te independently tell the world whats happened. They failed in this duty and must be held accountable. You have 15 people and 15 in a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. Thats a pretty goo