Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
Earlier in the day for sure. In the south bay, safety concerns over Outdoor Dining as restaurants have tried to move their operations outside because of the pandemic. San jose police now investigating a pair of unrelated crashes, one involving a man who drove right into a crowd of diners. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. Reporter this video shows the aftermath of what San Jose Police are calling a tragic accident in which a 69yearold man plowed into diners gathered for dim sum on saturday afternoon. Right now all eindications talking to witnesses is he thought he was using his brake but accelerated. Reporter the driver crashed into this Outdoor Dining space operated by the dynasty seafood chinese restaurant. Eight people taken to the hospital. Two remain in critical condition. At last check, its still unclear whether police say the driver was suffering from a medical emergency. The driver stayed there. Hes cooperating with the investigation. Obviously we have some things
Growing number of cases in the white house alexander. Also said that President Trump is still receiving the medication remdesevir and that he will need at least one more dose of that tomorrow, but still the plan is for President Trump to return to the white house shortly and this despite the fact that covid19 continues to spread through the white house staff. President trump announced on twitter that he was leaving Walter Reed Medical Center shortly after doctors gave an update on the president s condition over the past 24 hours. The president has continued to improve. Hes met or exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria meanwhile covid19 continues to spread through the White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany announced she tested positive back in any spoke to reporters sunday afternoon without wearing a mask in all we know of at least 26 people who have been around the president or his closest aides and have tested positive. I say for him not return to the white house wher
This morning on washington journal we take a look at the Michael Flynn perjury case that was reheard yesterday i the d. C. Circuit judge court of police judge court of appeals. Good morning, its wednesday, august 12, 2020. Yesterday afternoon joe biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election. The 55yearold daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants becomes the first lap woman in first asianamerican to run for Vice President on a major party ticket. This morning we are getting your reaction. Phone lines are open to let us know your thoughts. Republicans can call in this ,orning at 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000, 202 7488002. You can send us a tax that 202 7488002 a text at 202 7488002. Good wednesday morning to you. You can go ahead and talk calling him right now as we show you how the joe biden for Kamala Harris played out on the front pages of several Major National papers. This is the front page of the Washington Post. A historic move. Ine first woman of color
Down a review of the flynn case. I wonder your reading of the judges reactions and interactions with the lawyer. Guest anytime you are in front of one judge, it is difficult as an attorney, to be in front of multiple judges at the Appellate Court level, that is a challenge. I have been there, and you dont know which question is coming, and sometimes i have had judges that i thought were absolutely against my position and gave me the hardest time in the courtroom, and i left very disappointed only to find out later that they actually agreed with me, but we were testing the parameters of the argument but they were testing the parameters of the argument. I would think any lawyer in front of the court certainly have to take a step back and watch and see what happens. There are some incredible he thoughtful judges on this panel. You look at merrick garland, and i expect he is one that does not put politics in front of his role to assess the facts and the law. I am interested to see what wil