no matter who you hope will become our next president, we can perhaps all agree we don t really want this election to go into extra innings, now, do we? if tuesday were to end in a contested vote, this year s doomsday plan is incomplete if the election were to go the way of 2000 when appeals over bush v. gore went all the way to the supreme court. this year s decision could be made by only eight justices. remember, senate republicans have for months been blocking the president s nominee of judge merrick garland to that open ninth seat, that makes for a split decision on any case that goes to the high court including a disputed presidential election. the joining me now, supreme court biographer joan biskupic. this whole conversation, heaven forbid, we don t want that to
a few weeks. i found some websites where you could order painkillers online and have them delivered, and i just kept taking them. how did the drugs make you feel? they make you feel like everything s okay and you can manage everything, which leads to feeling like they re necessary to get through your daily life. how hard was it to hide that from everyone? it was absolutely necessary, in my mind. i was worried about the shame of it, having this weakness. it s not so much the church putting it on people, but it s people getting that idea that there s a certain standard that they ve got to live up to. heaven forbid, if there s a problem in your life, you re not going to talk about it. you know, it s interesting because i didn t know the whole story until now. really? i never really talked about it. kathy kept her addiction a secret. and eventually, she added a few more drugs to her roster. methadone and tranquilizers.
feel? they make you feel like everything s okay and you can manage everything, which leads to feeling like they re necessary to get through your daily life. how hard was it to hide that from everyone? it was absolutely necessary, in my mind. i was worried about the shame of it, having this weakness. it s not so much the church putting it on people, but it s people getting that idea that there s a certain standard that they ve got to live up to. heaven forbid, if there s a problem in your life, you re not going to talk about it. you know, it s interesting because i didn t know the whole story until now. really? i never really talked about it. kathy kept her addiction a secret. and eventually, she added a few more drugs to her roster. methadone and tranquilizers. her moment of truth came from a
farmlands there, because i wanted to get away from festus and crystal city. just in case, heaven forbid. and let me jump in. you mentioned 2,500 feet, chad myers. that s way low for someone wanting to jump out of you did not you did not have a lot of time to think about that. it the chute open right away for you? yeah. i pulled the handle as soon as i knew i was clearing the aircraft, pulled the handle as hard as i could. absolutely. now, everybody wants to know. this happened on saturday. thank you sleep in a holiday inn express on friday night? no. i actually did not. i slept at home. but yeah, i was definitely ready to go for saturday. sean, did you do you do this again? voluntarily? or are you finished with skydiving forever? no, actually i m not finished skydiving. with the place i fly for, fly free skydiving, i want to do a tandem skydive with them and have the full experience from
after 9/11 especially. commercial air traffic civil aviation authorities and the u.s. military are always in constant touch around the clock. so if there is a situation where a civilian airliner disappears, heaven forbid, of course, the u.s. military knows about it and then does scramble jets. if there s an aircraft flying in restricted air space, they know instantly from the faa, they scramble jets to go up and try and look to see what is going on. it does raise the nightmare scenario that the u.s. military has faced since 9/11 if there is an aircraft that cannot be identified, that ultimate scenario of having to shoot it down. the concern, when they look at places like this area of asia, they didn t seem to know anything about what was going on in their own air space. wolf. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. let s bring in miles o brien,