he s a nominee. she has to be able to speak about a nominee for attorney general. give me a break. this was abuse of power by the republicans, bringing up rule 19. senator sessions and that s why she was censured in the way that she was. it s within the responsibility of the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell to do what he did, and i think he did the right thing tonight. then you can t nominate senators for cabinet positions. if you can t speak openly about them, then you can t nominate them anymore. okay, we have time for one more. mitch mcconnell on the senate floor, he said this to elizabeth warren. she was warned. she was given explanation. she persisted. some of the comments on social media about that have been scathing. and i get that. you know, i think people want to take senator warren s side, that s fine. but senator mcconnell did what he thought was necessary in terms of restoring order on the senate floor and every senate majority leader has the
has done is it s just made democrats more emboldened to continue to fight the trump cabinet nominees and also the trump and republican agenda. leigh ann, thank you. with me, a member of the intelligence committee and homeland security committee. nice to see you. great to see you. the issue, what happened last night with elizabeth warren, would you have shut her down? it s not a matter of shutting her down but build comedy again. a rule affectionally called rule 19, you can impugn another senator directly or indirectly. there had been about six hours of debate about jeff sessions already, a lot of information out there, a lot of statements out there, both parties engaging in debate. when elizabeth warren got up to speak, it was a different level. it was a different tone. and the majority leader saw it. she was using words like disgraceful, talking about reading letters and saying you should have resigned, saying
after the election, looked him right in the eye and i said i hope you understand every day this is going to be a war. this is going to be a war to delegitimize your government. it s going to be a war to get you off track. get you on the defensive. get to you say stuff out of anger and then say ah-ha see, i told you so. get you to be tied up in knots in the legal system so you can t see straight. the democrats are going to play the same smash mouth politics that they believe they were embarrassed by over the last year and a half by trump. steve: revenge, in other words. brian: or could be revenge for what they say republican were doing to barack obama trying to stop him every step of the way. steve: sewerly. let s turn to abby huntsman. someone finally invoked rule 19 last night. abby: right? it was historic day. good to see you this morning. steve: good morning. abby: other headlines to get to. a fox news alert. on capitol hill where senate democrats are grinding the confirmation proce
thank you for having me. senator bernie sanders joining the chorus of democratic support for elizabeth warren, demanding an apology from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for silencing her last night. senator you went on the floor and read some of coretta scott king s letter, so did senator udall, both democrats. i don t understand why you were permitted and elizabeth warren was not. the distinction she had been warned and was violating this rule 19 which doesn t seem to be applied when republicans criticize democrats on the floor. andrea, i think that s exactly the right question and it s the question that senator mcconnell has got to answer. i read the entire letter that coretta scott king, one of the leaders of the civil rights movement, wrote to the senate judiciary committee some 30 years ago, read every word of it. there was no objection. i was not told that i could not participate in the debate over
widow who was opposing jeff sessions nomination for a federal judgeship back then. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell when objected and had senator warren silenced. mr. sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. mr. president the majority leader. the senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from alabama. i call the senator to order under rule 19. mr.president, i am surprised that the words of coretta scott king are not suitable for debate in the united states senate. i ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks. is there objection? i object. i appeal the ruling objection is heard.