0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are claire mccaskill and msnbc political analyst with danielle holly walker, dean and professor at howard school of law and joyce vance, law professor at university of alabama as well as an msnbc legal analyst. we have a few minutes before we go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arriv
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would be over, but the arrival of a new variant has brought new challenges. it s forced business and all of us to think again and to do things differently, but quite what that looks like still isn t clear. it is nearly seven o clock. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. hello, here are the top stories in in london and the south east this morning. people dealing with domestic abuse
social life as well. mask wearing will become compulsory in shops and other indoor areas including public transport. they re not in the hospitality sector. there s an effort to bring under control. not as drastic as we have seen in other parts of europe, austria. the netherlands has brought into place a partial lockdown with concerns over several travelers who have arrived. there are concerns. we do see a varying approach across the european continent. boris johnson has been clear. there are some concerns and he said that while there are concerns that there isn t clear evidence as whothe how effectiv the vaccines will be against this new variant. there s some signs if you had two dozesses and the booster do you may be in a better place.
the new variant in south africa is markedly different as we heard from the top of the show because it carries an unusual marker. sonoma county spoke with cardiologist about what sort of dangers this new variant could cause. take a listen. the big question now is will our immune response from vaccines or prior infections be blunted by this variant. if it proves to be one that interferes with our immune response, that isn t clear yet. those are the lab studies that have to be done in the days ahead. and so we re grateful to the south african scientists who are on this. but the main thing here is we have ways to defend against it, against all variants. but we don t know yet whether it s going to really challenge our vaccines, which have already had the issue of the waning, which is what you got to the european situation where there is a lack of vaccinations, plus the waning at six months and