we have the opportunity to put judge brett kavanaugh on the supreme court where his distinguished service will make us and our nation proud for years to come. but we have the opportunity to do even more. today, we can send a message to the american people that some core principles remain unfettered by the partisan passions of this moment. facts matter. fairness matters. the presumption of innocence is sacrosanct. the senate has turned its back on these things before, madam president, but never for long. and never without deep regret. this institution does not look back proudly on the era of joseph mccarthy. nor on any of the other times when the politics of personal destruction poisoned its
fairness matters. at some point you guys have to take stands that make that a baseline principle down there. you have a pretty easy layup right now. if a man won t come forward and say the victims of domestic abuse deserve respect and deserve to be believed, i don t know where else to start. congresswoman, appreciate you coming on and giving us your perspective. thank you. the breaking news, the fbi is investigating this shooting that just happened at nsa headquarters in maryland. a black suv crashed into a security barrier. you can see the suv, the front window has bullet holes in it. we have all the latest breaking details from officials on the ground for you next. (vo) i was born during the winter of 77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn t stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story.
had to go through the security clearance background when he left the army and joined a committee of congress. i m not sure how somebody with 30 years of government experience need eight months more of investigation. one of the best people i ve ever met in my life, she s never broken curfew, it took her a year to get a security clearance. that s too long when you re hiring people for really fact centric jobs. a year is too long to wait. many you have too many applican applicants, any time you ve got a backlog, you have to look at those two factors. you have announced you re retiring. why are you getting out of this racket? because i miss my old job. i miss the justice system. i like jobs where facts matter, where fairness matters. i like jobs where frankly where the process matters. it s not about winning or reaching a result. there s a proper way to do things. there are confessions thrown out because police didn t follow the right protocol.
convention. and y not? he left office with a $236 billion budget surplus. president obama and the republicans quickly turned that into an $11 trillion budget deficit. clinton offered a balanced approach that included raising taxes in 1993. that compared to the seven bush/cheney tax cuts. 23 million jobs were created during clinton years compared to a paltry 3 million for bush/cheney. policy results. fairness matters. joining me now is alicia menendez and chrystia freeman. great to have you with us. what do you make of the decision? i think this shows that