Reading it properly. Again, im concerned that the democrats put him. They should choose somebody else m concerned about the decision. Back in february of this year Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell went on fox newss special report and was asked if he would hold the scotu s seat open if a vacancy happened before the november election and was asked about his decision to block judge Merrick Garland back in 2016 and that position came open while president obama was in his last year of office. Here is what Mitch Mcconnell said. If a Supreme Court seat were to open up, you hold that seat open like you did for mary garland Merrick Garland . Let me remind you of what i said in 2016. I said you have to go back to the 1880s find the last time a vacancy on the Supreme Court occurring during a president ial Election Year was confirmed by a senate of a Different Party than the president. That was the situation in 2016. That would not be the situation in 2020. I am not aware of any vacancy, but
Tonight, right this is true and also getting much hotter tomorrow to just kind of like a late summer day today but boy taking the gloves off by tomorrow, good morning morning, good morning, everybody. Live shot comes in from the golden gate not much of a breeze, although we expect an offshore wind to develop even noticeably here as we go into the weekend live shot coming in from the bay bridge toll plaza with the sun just about to join us over the east bay hills Temperature Check right now we have those lower 60s lining up the east bay shoreline up to the north bay, a mixture of 50s and 60s for comparisons sake we little warmer up there in the north and a good chunk of the east bay around midday, were just a touch cooler today not getting on to that red flag warning, heres the Coverage Area right over the east bay hills of those winds being offshore about 20 to 35 Solano County will be hit particularly hard which will be showing you this all kicking in about 9 oclock tonight being with
Explore our nations past. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome to the third installment of cspans contend series. We look at Williams Jennings bryant. What better way to introduce to you the man than hearing directly from him. Heres a portion of the speech that he delivered at the Democratic National convention back in 1896. Its commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led directly to his first run at the white house at the age of 36. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conflict. We are fighting into our homes, our families and prosperity. We have petitions, and our petitions have been scorned. We treaties and our treaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We go forth confident that we shall win. The words of William Jennings bryan coming to you from his home in nebraska. I
Listen live on the cspan radio viewnd visit cspan. Org to a playlist of Amy Coney Barretts legal views. Host a discussion on the continuity of government. Our guest is a lot professor at Michigan State. You wrote in the Washington Post friday morning that the law is clear about handling president ial illness, but it can get murky fast. Start with what is clear. Amendmentl, the 25th gives us clear procedures for transferring power to the president from the to the Vice President when he is unable to dispense duties or he is unconscious. The Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that transfer of power. Things get murky if the president challenges the declaration and get really problematic if the president and Vice President are both incapacitated because then we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday what concerns you the most right now . Well, i think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able
Gives us very clear procedures for transferring power from the president to the Vice President , when the president declares himself unable to discharge his unconscious,he is unable to declare himself unable , then the Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that declaration and transfer power. Things get murkier if the president contests the declaration by the vice thingsnt and cabinet and get really problematic if the president and the Vice President are both incapacitated. Because they are, we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday, what concerns you the most right now . Think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able and he is not. It is hard to know. We dont know exactly how the president is doing and what the side effects of his medication might be. He could be fine. The problem is that the president can be in pretty bad shape and still not incapacitated enough that the 25th amendment wo