court. a vote will go to the senate judiciary committee first before heading to the chambers. there s a total of 21 members. senates hold the majority. they have 11 members. democrats have ten. notice the difference. there s a number of women on the democrat side. republicans are all men. all members of the democrat party are calling for the vote to be held. jeff flake has already told the the washington post i m not comfortable with the vote going on thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or expl e explored this further. because republicans have a one-seat advantage, senator flake could derail the vote by himself. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell could still bring the nomination to the senator floor where republicans hold a 51-49
a gaggle? well, i think that there is a little bit of, you know, running around with hair on fire about what sean spicer did yesterday. about eliminating the access, but the bigger problem is frankly something that steve bannon said the day before the president spoke at cpac and bannon said that this is a war eve everyday. and he is absolutely serious about that. and this is an example of what bannon sees as the future of the war between the white house and the rest of the world apparently right now. and this is going to get to actually, too, twitter and folks at home with their heads expl e exploded when i asked that question. are we making too big of a deal of this, and it is a big deal, and for the very reason that rich said, between what the president said and the press being the enemy of the people, and steve bannon said at cpac saying this is war, and calling the press the opposition party,
have generals who are quite up there in years but they are important because of their battlefield knowledge, their connections and ability to lead. they are not people who can beat up nerve the unit but known for leadership. osama bin laden wasn t a front-line fighter or al-zawa i al-zawahri. but that doesn t not make them important to the organization. the idea they were too old and irrelevant because they couldn t fight well doesn t stand up at all compared to how we know organizations work and how fighting organizations work. reporter: considering the middle east continues to expl e explode, implode on many fronts, how important would it be for qatar to extend these men s detention at this time? i think one of the reasons why it s important is because these guys have pretty strong connections to al qaeda. there is ongoing debate to what
we re the good old boys. we have some real problems on our college campuses with political correctness. every halloween the trees are filled with underwear. every spring the toilets expl e explode. these elite snobs. my 93-year-old mom is someone that did get a college education in the 1930s. what a snob. yeah, what a snob. obama thinks everybody should go to college like he did. pardon me, but some of us weren t handed a ticket to harvard by being the biracial soften son of a mother on food stamps. that s what you call foot in the mouth disease. let s get right to our political panel. skblen, i d like
collapse, and black friday gets ugly. very ugly. and the weather may get unpredictable. let s begin in cairo with cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben, you ve been covering the pro military rally there. can you compare for me in terms of numbers and demonstrators that rally to what we ve been seeing in tahrir square since saturday? that pro military rally was maybe one-tenth as many people as are here at the moment. but they say they represent the silent majority. now they want their voices heard. they ve watched tahrir become a political stage, and with so many groups coming out and calling for the military to tep down, other demonstrators are trying to reach the interior ministry. they say the army and this police are the two main pillars. they say the place to determine in the future is not in the streets and in the squares. the elections are due to begin on monday. can you give me a quick update on the three american students? the release is ordered