Tonight calls on guns. Americans of every background stand up and say enough. We have suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue, then change will come. A bunch of people on both sides of the gun debate and gun advocates who think im just plain wrong on the guns. Last time he schooled me on american weather. Its hurricane. Not in my country. Well, were not in your country now. I wasnt employed to be an american. Expecting a stormy time tonight. This is piers morgan tonight. Good evening. The latest breaking news on the american hostage situation overseas. We begin with the most important issue facing this country right now, the issue that president obama made his agenda today. A little over one month since the brutal shooting at sandy hook. The president changed the rules on gun with the stroke of his pen. Signing 23 executive actions he says will strengthen background checks and expand safety programs in schools. The president is also calling
Words. That is the man who sits before us. Nominated to be a justice on the highest court of our land. Judge kavanaugh has the backing of his former law clerks and law students, his colleagues on the bench appointed by both republican and democrat president s and many members of his local community in which he remains so closely involved. He is a man of honor, integrity and well respected in the legal community. There is no dispute he is qualified to serve on our nations highest court. Mr. Chairman, i look forward to the hearing from the nominee himself when we all get done with our statements. [ Protester Talking ] as we discuss with judge kavanaugh for the public to hear, in his own words the proper role of a judge in our constitutional system. I look forward to this hearing and again, judge kavanaugh, thank you for being willing to
be here. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Senator booker. Thank, mr. Chairman. Welcome judge kavanaugh i want to say welcome to your family sincerely as well. We
Listen to the president last month. What sands out to me, that the American People sent a the American People sent a one they sent for several elections now. They expect the people that they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment. Still, as president i have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So to everyone who voted, i want you to know that hear you. Eric well lets see what he says later on today. Were waiting of course for many questions on variety of issues. One topic sure to come up of course, the sony cyberattack. In fact the fbi blames the attack on north korea which caused sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of the movie the interview. The white house has acknowledged that publicly. Some republicans think it is time for the president to respond more forcefully to the rogue north korean regime. Wit
Is the money the republicans have thrown into marco rubios race to hold on to his senate seat. Congressman Patrick Murphy was thrilled he was going to have an influx of money to help him in these final 11 days, now this. And any day donald trump is outof the headlines is a great day for rubio because donald trump is the biggest obstacle to marco rubio winning reelection. If i were the Trump Campaign i would be praying they locked trump in a closet for a few days so they talk about nothing but clinton. Final note before we go into the week end in florida . Absolutely this is a stunning story. The whole state will be tuned in tonight and it will affect peoples vote. Saw san and ausan and adam, continue on, top of the hour. This is cnn breaking news. We continue on here, im Brooke Baldwin. You are watching cnn, we are live in tampa, florida. I was all set to focus on florida today as far as politics is concerned, the biggest prize of the battleground states but then came brtz breaking new
Democrats sound the alarm. This is outnumbered. Im sandra smart. Here today harris faulkner, Meghan Mccain and host of forbes on Fox David Asman is here. Thank you ladies. We made it. I could walk here frankly. I put on the boots in the snow. Youre used to chicago. We hope everybody staying safe. Its not just the big winter blast putting Nations Capital on alert. Democrats quick to pounce on the report from. Congressional Budget Office which says gop plan could add 24 million americans to the ranks of uninsured. The report finds the plan will put a significant dent in the federal deficit. Paul ryan said he sees positives. I think if you read this report, im pretty encouraged by it. Were saying the government will not force people to buy something they dont want to buy. If we end Obamacare Mandate that says you must buy this government plan, people arent going to buy that. Once reforms kick in what the cbo telling us, it will lower premiums. It stabilizes the markets. As you can imagine