[inaudible] im ready when you are. Are you live . Are we going . Senator whitehouse. Thank. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going to understand forces
Lawmakers will be working on a bill to temporarily extend government funding through december 11th. Current funding runs out tonight at midnight eastern. We accept the final passage later today. Senators also starting to consider Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee, amy barrett. We expect lots of debate on the nomination as well. Now live to the senate floor on cspan2. Almighty god, we praise you with our whole hearts. We refuse to forget how you have led our nation in the past and trust you to guard our future. Lord, encourage our lawmakers to be a part of your solutions and not a part of the problems that confront our land. Give them the courage to carry on, knowing that nothing is too difficult for your sovereign might. May the light of your truth illumine their way, as they find in you a sure guide. Help them to commit their lives to goals that will cause justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. We pray in your sacred name, amen. The president pro te
Rove Senior Adviser to president goernl w. Bush welcome i know you jo in me wishing president and first lady a speedy recovery, as all americans do, but this is another real eh , you know, just a crazy fact in a crazy year. What do you think how do you think this changes the race . Yeah, just when you thought it couldnt get strangeer it does it is like the weird election of our lifetime. Look. We dont really know bols sarro in brazil got ill Boris Johnson interiorly dies of covid, poll numbers in middle of a highly divisive deeply partisan enormously polarized election wick rear i dont anticipate for the president ironically enough it may be when you are faced with adversity in politics plrl president ial campaign figure out how to take lemons, lemonade making sure opportunity for president no longer 14 days is he going to be giving speeches in front of 90 minute speeches in front of adoring crowds in which he goes off on tangent becomes news of the day, instead they may have an opport
Seth you know, the least we deserve in trying times like announcer tonight, on late this is great punk music night with seth meyers, colin quinn. Star of filthy rich, actress kim cattrall music from Jeff Rosenstock punk music that stands for something. Featuring the band with this next guy is one of my Jessica Burdeaux favorites. And now, seth meyers hes angry and urgent and prescient. Seth good evening, im seth meyers, and this is late night. And while im super bummed that how is everybody doing tonight all right. He and his band are not here same as always, lets get to the news live tonight, at least we will not have to pay for a studio roof that they surely wouldve the New York Times yesterday ripped off published an investigation into President Trumps finances album, no dream, this is Jeff Rosenstock. And lets just say, melanias going to be pretty pissed when she learns what half of negative hello 431 million is hello hi the New York Times hi its nice to see you investigation publi
And we begin with breaking news from the United States where a Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has died of complications from pancreatic cancer the 87 year old has been a champion of womens rights and the leader of the courts liberal wing death gives President Trump a chance to dramatically expand the courts conservative majority at a time when america is deeply divided and the president ial vote is just over 6 weeks away i did jocasta begins our coverage with a look back at Ruth Bader Ginsburgs life and legacy. Physically Ruth Bader Ginsburg was diminutive but she loomed large on the u. S. Supreme Court Ginsburg was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench warrant to jewish immigrants in Brooklyn New York in 1933 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only 9 women to enroll in Harvard University law school in 1956 later transferring to Columbia University where she graduated at the top of her class but as ginsburg told one