Apply. Not alter the work of the peoples representatives. Reporter republicans are calling the nominee impressive. Respected, and a consistent conservative. But judge gorsuchs path to confirmation wont be easy. Democratic senators are already lining up in opposition to him. I have very deep, serious concerns as to whether he is in the mainstream. Reporter democrats point to judge gorsuchs record on Womens Health re rights, and privacy rights as being outside of the mainstream. The most important criteria for Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. He said he has very serious doubts about judge gorsuchs ability to meet this standard. Gorsuch will need to win over some democrats to get 60 votes needed to gain confirmation. Weijia jiang, cbs news, capitol hill. The 60 vote rule is a senate rule to stop the filibuster. However, republicans can invoke the socalled Nuclear Option which would do away with the filibuster rule meaning it would take only 51 votes to gain confirmation. But they may
Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is being tasked with improving relationships with u. S. Allies who may be upset about Trump Administration policies. And the secretary got down to business early this morning. Craig boswell is at the white house with more details. Reporter secretary of state Rex Tillerson kicked off the day meeting with Australian Foreign minister julie bishop. Thank you guys. Reporter the meeting is expected to help ease tensions between the u. S. And australia after reports of a contentious phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull earlier this month. President trump expressed his production ration about an Obama Administration deal that would allow up to 1500 muslim immigrants into the u. S. From australia. You know Previous Administration does something you have to respect that. But you can also say why are we doing this . Thats why were in the jams that were in. Reporter secretary tillersons had a closed door meeting with President Trum
President donald trump is focusing on healthcare this afternoon. Earlier this morning, he met with ceos of the nations Top Insurance Company and as weijia jiang reports, President Donald Trump is asking them what they want to see in his proposed replacement for obamacare. You are the biggest of the big. Reporter President Donald Trump met with ceos of Major Insurance Companies working to replace obamacare. The new plan will be great for the patients, the people, and hopefully for the companies. Reporter the president has released few details on how he plans to replace the Affordable Care act but says he will tackle during his upcoming joint address to congress on tuesday. Im going to have a speech on tuesday night and were going to be speaking very specifically about a very complicated subject. Reporter while the fight while the white house finalizes the president s speech, there are growing calls for an independent investigation into claims Trump Campaign officials had ties to russian
Way here to explain to you whats going on. Again right now is a a stretcher and you have crews standing by and there are dozens and dozens of fire crews out here. Police. As well as osha on the way to help with the investigation. And what were being told at this point is that a trench collapsed almost two hours ago at a construction site thats here on the 4600 block of dexter street in northwest d. C. D. C. Fire officials tell us that crews were in the process of building a home this morning when the trench collapsed. Took place. We dont know whoa yet. D. C. Police and now osha are investigating what happened but right now the focus remains on the man stuck inside. Hes about 20 feet underground ride now and has been trapped there for over an hour and a half. Fire officials are calling the construction site unstable right now. And obviously dangerous. So they say that they are taking extra precautions to continue to get down to the man thats stuck inside. Both in a timely and a safe man
Tornadic thunderstorms in illinois and the same system doesnt mean were going to have a repeat of that. But we still have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect from eastern areas of tennessee all the way now to South Central pennsylvania. Including much of the washington region. Our watches in effect until 5 00 p. M. For the washington metro area and most of Northern Virginia and maryland. Southern maryland the Eastern Shore the Northern Neck you are not in it at this point. You may be later, what can we expect . Well, gusty winds and the worst of the storms might be 60, 65 up to 70 miles an hour. With some hail as large as an inch and a half and we could see an isolated tornado. We had one on saturday down in charles county. Heres what first alert doppler is showing this line of storms racing east between 60 and 70 miles an hour. Just the speed alone will tell you this thing can have some wind with it. As i zoom in you can see weve got some storms that have been pushing in toward west