america. senator klobuchar is right. the comments from the white house yesterday about trying to politicize the department of justice, they were wrong, and they should be condemned. my guess is brett kavanaugh would condemn them. but really, the reason these hearings don t work is not because of donald trump. it s not because of anything in the last 20 months. these confirmation hearings haven t worked for 31 years in america. people are going to pretend that americans have no historical memory, and supposedly there haven t been screaming protesters saying women are going to die at every hearing for decades. this has been happening. this is a 31-year tradition. there s nothing new the last 18 months. the fact the hysteria has nothing to do with you meanings that we should ask what s the its hysteria coming from? it s coming from the fact that we have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the supreme court in american life now. our political commentary talks about the supreme co
reputation as a good friend, a good classmate, a good roommate, as a good husband and family man. that you ve contributed to your community i think we will hear later today that you ve even been a great youth basketball coach, but frankly we re not here to consider you as the president of our neighborhood civic association or even to review whether you ve been a great youth basketball coach, we re here to consider you for a lifetime appointment to the united states supreme court where you will help shape the future of this country and have an impact on the lives of millions of americans for literally decades to come. and to make that decision to exercise our constitutional role we have to look closely at your decisions, your statements, your writings to understand how you might interpret our constitution. the next justice will play a pivotal role in defining a wide range of critical issues including the scope of the president s power in determining whether the president might be above
playing field when it comes to accessing the internet. another example that seems mired in legalese but is critical for americans, anti-trust law. in recent years, a conservative majority on the supreme court has made it harder and harder to enforce the nation s anti-trust laws, ruling in favor of consolidation and market dominance. yet, two of judge kavanaugh s major anti-trust opinions suggest that he would push the court even further down this pro-merger path. we should have more competition and not less. now, to go from my specific concerns and end on a higher plane, all of the attacks on the rule of law and our justice system over the past year have made me, and i would guess some of my other colleagues on this committee, pause and think many times about why i decided to come to the senate and get on
saying. [crowd booing] fake news scripted his questions. and what did you them? fake news. sean: oh e okay. they are saying they would never provide scripted questions and colton s father withdrew his name from participating before the show began. this is not the first time that the fake news network has been accuse of scripting questions. michelle malkin put out a great article in 2016 for the new york post. cnn s long history of allowing democratic town hall plants and here are just a couple of the many examples she found. 2007, cnn youtube debate. quote undecide you had voters literally included a member of the lbgt americans for hillary clinton steering committee. john edwards supporter that asked questions about abortion. log cabin republican that was really backing barack
the i think the emotion and grief but also the proverbial. sean: we played a clip of the president. he spoke yesterday how the average school shooting is over in three minutes. even the best first responders as great as they are, they need six minutes to get. there yeah. sean: that s why and he made another good point, all these politicians, all these celebrities, all these people that would like to disarm americans that aren t willing to put retired armed military, retired armed police in the schools, they are usually pretty well protected with their own security forces of armed people like at the oscars, et cetera. so there is a lot of hypocrisy here and the lectures that come from people that themselves have security and armed guards is a little falls flat, at least on my ears and most people here. this president is pretty adept at pointing out hypocrisy. i think in this case it s been said by many people over the last week and true that if we really care about