in the meantime. the votes are called on the senate floor, which is a possibility, we ll do our best to keep the hearing going as members go back and forth. as i mentioned yesterday, we welcome all of our friends in the audience. and ask that they be quiet, respectful during the hearing. so let s get started with the questioning and i ll begin at this point. judge jackson, there are two issues that came up repeatedly yesterday from the other side of the aisle, i want to address at the outset. one of them was a question of judicial philosophy. no one questions either your academic law school credentials or your service as clerk and as federal judge but time and again you have been asked what is your judicial philosophy. does it fit into scalia s originalism, kavanaugh s
academic or law school credentials or your service as clerk and as federal judge. she has all the tickets in terms of her intelligence, education. i don t quite remember the basis for the dred scott opinion. laura: now, what americans saw in this confirmation hearing to the extent that there watching it all is a complete farce. what they saw was a supreme court nominee chosen not primarily for intellect and stellar judicial record, but at least in part for her skin color. the biden pledge to select a female african american justice was both discriminatory and demeaning. as if somehow minorities couldn t make it without joe s affirmative action. how insulting. most of the questioning by republican senators was devoted to hot button cases such as her lenient sentencing in child pornography prosecutions. and of course in an attempt to blunt the revealing moments from
if votes are called on the senate floor, which is a possibility, we ll do our best to keep the hearing going as members go back and forth. as i mentioned yesterday, we welcome all of our friends in the audience and ask that they be quiet and respectful during the hearing. so, let s get started with the questioning, and i ll begin at this point. judge jackson, there are two issues that came up repeatedly yesterday from the other side of the aisle that i want to address at the outset. one of them was a question of judicial philosophy. no one questions either your academic law school credentials or your service as clerk and as federal judge, but time and again, you have been asked, what is your judicial philosophy? does it fit into scalia s originalism, kavanaugh s textualism, is it liberal, is it
0 get here today are some of the key answers. we have seen in hearings past nominees refuse to weigh in on what can come before the court, to the concern and consternation of members on this committee. expect some moments of contentiousness between republicans and this nominee. we ll see how she responds to pointed and direct questions. will she get tripped up and will anything change and will she win over any republicans to ultimately support her? one republican who could break ranks lindsey graham who voted for her for the d.c. circuit told me yesterday it is a different game when it comes to the supreme court. so we ll see where she comes down and today what will be a long day of questioning that could extend late into the night. poppy? manu, thank you very much. stay with us. let me bring in all of our experts to break down the headlines and, let me begin with you, her experience here is diverse and it is really important. when you look at the number, she has more judicial experi
because there s too, mueller and coen. i don t know about. that, i don t know about. let s bring back john avlon, van jones, jackie kucinich. it was interesting the word choice that we can t ignore. van, let s call on those law school credentials. he s saying i was told, rosenstein told my attorneys ways not a target, i was not a subject. those two words very important. just remind us, what s the difference? well, i mean, he s trying to say that he is not the target of a criminal investigation. he s not himself personally under under threat of being indicted for crimes even though of course he s president there s no the department of justice has said it doesn t have the authority do that. but first of all, back up for a second. you got too give trump some credit to have maggie haberman come into the office and talk to him. she has been one of the toughest critics of the administration. she s somehow, i don t know what