President ial election in which folks are voting in more than 40 states, millions of votes have already been cast, and just a week after that election, the Supreme Court is going to hear a case that could take away Health Care Protections for more than half of all americans. This is not an abstract, academic argument, this is one that will have reallife consequences. Destroying the essential protections of the Affordable Care act which was enacted just more than a decade ago would majorityal impact on a of all americans. It prevents Insurance Companies from discriminating against the more than 100 million americans with preexisting conditions like diabetes or heart disease. It dramatically expanded medicaid and it provides coverage to kids on their parents insurance up to the age of 26. I should say young adults. Perhaps more important like, since a lot of what we have been talking about is the legacy of Justice Ginsburg and the lifelong commitment to gender equity, it prevents Insuran
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. Senate debate on Amy Coney Barretts nomination begins at noon eastern. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee voted yesterday to move the nomination from the committee to the floor for consideration. Democrats boycotted the vote. The committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the heads of tech and social media companies. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I appreciate all of my colleagues being here properly. As you know, our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last night they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, two days to the question. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. What to co
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Sen. Graham good morning. I appreciate all of you, all of my colleagues being here promptly. As you know, our Democratic Politics informed the Committee Last night that they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. We are not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days to be questioned. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged, but not inappropriately. I want to complement my democratic colleagues for not going down the kavanaugh road. I want to complement the republican members for asking questions that matter to you, but showing a tremendous amount of discipline to make sure that on our side the hearing went well. And each of you, when this is over, i hope you feel like a sense of accomplishment. This is why we all run. It is moments like this that ma
[ cheers and applause announcer tonight, on late night with seth meyers, colin quinn. Star of filthy rich, actress kim cattrall music from Jeff Rosenstock featuring the band with Jessica Burdeaux and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers, and this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight all right. Same as always, lets get to the news the New York Times yesterday published an investigation into President Trumps finances and lets just say, melanias going to be pretty pissed when she learns what half of negative 431 million is the New York Times investigation published yesterday alleges President Trump has paid almost nothing in federal income tax over the past 20 years wow. If true, this bombshell has the potential to be almost as damaging to his political career as the access Hollywood Tape the New York Times investigation published yesterday showed trump paid just 750 in federal income tax in both 2016 and 2017, which i have to admit, is way funnier than paying 0. It