Care and dealing with the disputed president ial election. Yesterday barrett said she would not bring a personal agenda to her work as a Supreme Court justice but declined to say if shes recuse herself from potential cases deciding the outcome of the 2020 election or on the aca itself. A great panel is with us covering every angle of the hearings. Garrett haake overlooking the hearing room. Kelly odonnell at the white house. Joining the conversation our justice correspondent pete williams, senior washington correspondent andrea mitchell, covered every confirmation hearing since robert bork and former msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill. Start in the hearing room. Garrett haake. We know that the nominee has taken her seat. Pretty close. Anything to get us started this morning . Republicans are thrilled with her performance so far. That moment of her holding up an empty note pad yesterday has already become a meme thinking shes turned in a great performance and pointing to polls sho
The investigation and how the community is doing. Plus, an nbc news exclusive with Richard Engle speaking with ukrainian president zelenskyy. Well play for you what he had to say about the americans captured by russian troops. And this morning, we remember the 98 lives lost in the surfside condominium collapse one year ago today. We begin this hour with breaking news. Congress is one step closer to passing the most significant measure to reduce gun violence in nearly 30 years. Right now, the house is holding a rule debate on gun violence prevention bill, after it passed the senate overnight. These are live pictures from the capitol. Final passage expected in the house some time later today. In a 6533 vote, 15 republican senators joined democrats in passing the bill. The historic progress being made on capitol hill comes just one day after the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision expanding gun rights across the country. Joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali.
The latest on what he will tell the committee and what we can expect at next weeks public hearings. Todays hearings are closed. With Brittney Griner back in her russian jail cell, i will talk to the brother of paul whelan, an american detained by russia since 2018, on what the u. S. Considers baseless charges. First, the shocking assassination of shinzo abe. Janice, such an important figure internationally, globally and in japan. Especially in strengthening their response to chinese aggression, military buildup. Reporter former Prime Minister shinzo abe was a political giant in japan. A prominent figure even after he stepped down no 2020 citing health reasons. He was in nara city giving a campaign speech, helping out a junior candidate, when shots rang out. It was captured on video. You can hear the shots and then from another angle see smoke billowing above the crowd. Abe went down bleeding. He lost consciousness. He was airlifted to hospital where they tried to resuscitate him. He ar
Donald trump not content to have won thely election, he began claiming to have also won the popular vote. If you deducted the millions of people who he claimed illegally voted in california. And obviously millions of people did not vote illegally in california, trumpdi did not win the popular vote, but there is an in arguable logic to the whole claim, it looks like we lost, but if you throw out millions of votes from the opponent, i win and then took the logic to a more ridiculous direction, if you just didnt count california, trump would have won the popular vote. Problem solved. In fact, one conservative talk show host and former republican congressman tweeted, quote, i know californias a state, and i know we have to count it. But if you remove california, trump won the popular vote by 1. 4 million. Case closed. Its true. If you remove one eighth of the american population, then yes, trump definitely won the popular in 2016. Throw enough out of your opponents ballots and you win. Tha
[applause] thank you for joining us. I am going to leave the hardcore legal questions to my colleague, so i start with the news as a journalist. I think a lot of us are still trying to get our heads around the ideas that are right, that existed for 50 years, can evaporate. I wonder if you would just start off by taking us inside the deliberations around the Dobbs Decision and particularly how you tried to persuade your fellow justices to maybe take a different course. It does not mean you do not feel the emotion and all of them. What judge wisdom told me years ago, he was one of the circuit, you ought to read about their story. My god, they really segregated the south. Wisdom, it was he was a great judge. He said, were you angry when you are angry at the majority, here is what you do. You write an opinion and say how awful they are. Really just no holds barred. When you finish that, you read it and you throw it in the wastebasket. Once again, you write your dissent. You see where this