These four days worth of hearings Siobhan Hughes, welcome. How did these hearings compare with ones in the past given we are now operating under the pandemic. Four days for the nominee. Caller four to guest four days is about the standard for a lot of people who have been tuning into the Supreme Court nominations only recently, it might feel a little different. That is because the Brett Kavanaugh nominations were so contentious. It did go on for longer than normal. Four days is about right. We will start monday with Opening Statements from senators. We will hear from a neat Amy Coney Barrett. Divebsequent days, we will into very intense questioning of her by the senators. Finally, there will be an outside panel that the senators will question. That is the format. That is standard. What is not standard is that we are operating in a pandemic. This is going to be a hybrid hearing. At the start, some senators are going to appear remotely. Two of them have tested positive for coronavirus. M
Today and two weeks later second and third graders, fourth and at that hearing room where weve seen Amy Coney Barretts fifth gradeers in november. Middle schoolers and high school children, her husband, family members. Students wont head back to a large hearing room where the campus until january. This all comes as california has Supreme Court confirmation seen a dip in covid19 hearings have taken place, but never like this in terms of positivity rates. Timing and what the country is going through. One of the senators seat. I did see some paws painted on in a moment well hear Opening Statements from the senators. The sidewalks and benches so theres Lindsey Graham, the kids are aware of where they republican chair of the Judiciary Committee talking to need to social distance six feet his counterpart, democrat dianne apart. Reporting live in palo alto, feinstein. Sharon katsuda, today in the the ranking democrat on this committee. As we watch this unfold, these bay. Thanks so much, sharo
Appear remotely. Senator Kamala Harris, you see there, the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, who has been in close contact with the president while he has been sick and he is Walking Around talking to a number of the senators and guests gathered there. A quick timeline of how we expect this to go today. We will hear Opening Statements from members of the committee and judge barrett. The questioning begins tomorrow. We expect that to be quite heated. A Committee Vote is expected ten days from now. Lets bring in chief legal so goe re all right going to object to her qualifications, but they will be objecting to her judicial philosophy . And the process. I think you are going to see you could almost say the three as. You are going to hear about abortion, the Affordable Care act, and appoint. Kind of chicanery. Democrats will try to suggest she would overturn roe v. Wade, which of course said a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion. The Affordable Care act. The Supreme Co
Capital. Shes xektded today to focus on family, morals and her judicial philosophy in her own opening statement. That will come after 22 members read their Opening Statements inside the hearing room. The seats socially distanced. Some senators participate virtually in todays nomination hearing. Some republicans, one of whom tested positive of coronavirus after attending that rose garden where the president selected the judge as the nominee. Republicans say they are following cdc guidelines. We have our entire team joining us this morning to take us through this step by step. Lets go to our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce, this will look different from hearings past. Were going through this pandemic and we he days until election day, we should note, well more than 5 million americans have voted in this president ial election. Reporter david, we have covered many historic hearings in this room, i have never seen any quite like this. You can see the room itself, physically d
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