cnn this morning starts right now. well, good morning, everyone, i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. a lot to get to. specifically politics. pre-christmas campaign push lands in iowa today. donald trump, ron desantis and nikki haley all holding events there, sharpening their closing messages and attacks against one another this morning. a new signal the trump campaign is concerned about one candcand candidate s growing momentum. abbott signing a controversial bill making illegal immigration a state crime that will allow texas police to make mass arrests. the protests and threats of legal challenges already under way. and bursts of lava and smoke filling the sky in iceland today as a volcano dramatically erupted overnight after weeks of warnings. threatening a geothermal power plant. cnn this morning starts right now. new this morning, it looks like donald trump may be feeling some pressure in new hampshire as nikki haley chipped away at what was a huge
Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Because its unusual. When the majority leader extended the Senate Schedule in to august. We scheduled a nom
We appreciate everybody being here. I turned it on. Especially welcome the nominees and their families. Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Bec
Mass, the Vatican Embassy. Well go to mola lenghi live as soon as we capture him on our cameras. The spirit of the world tells us to be like everybody else, to settle for what comes easy. We must regain the conviction that we need one another that, we have a shared responsibility for others and for the world is what pope francis said here to some 25,000 people and we ate it all up. He had a lot more to say about looking out for one another, that its not just about us, stop being so selfish. I thought it was a great speech. The service itself was incredible, the singing, the vibe. Scores of people took to communion including many members of the media up here. It was an incredible event, im sure nobody will leave here the same as they came in. The Catholic Church has a new saint tonight, a pope born in europe and called to the americas. Jan jeffcoat has that story. [ cheering and applause ] he arrived by popemobile, pope francis waving to a sea of people along the route to the basilica o
The carbon green coal technologies. My question is on the shortterm energies and Contingency Planning for an Oil Supply Disruption. The questions are the region prepared in terms of Strategic Oil stocks or oil sharing plans for an Oil Supply Disruption. Is the institutional architecture of the region the various International Forum such as the iea, asean, asean plus 3, as well as the east asia summit. Are they up to the task in terms of the regions institutional framework in dealing with shortterm Energy Crisis such as an Oil Supply Disruption using tools such as oil stocks or oil sharing plants . If not, what can be done . That is a great question and it kind of brings out the reality that simultaneously we all together have to do two things. One is manage the situation in which one exists now and the other is put in place the tools and the institutional and tec technological that can help us to move forward. I would say from the u. S. Perspective, we think that this issue that you ra