November, 3rd election. And tonight judge Amy Coney Barrett has officially been sworn in to the Supreme Court and our washington dc correspondent kelli meyer joins us now live with the kelly, the seems like it all happened pretty quickly. Good evening. Grant vicki yeah, it did we just wrapped up with the official swearing in at the white house just moments ago and just 30 minutes before that she had the final confirmation vote here on capitol hill in that building just behind me and it went as expected republicans knew they had the votes to get this through democrats continued to oppose this until the very last second. Senator schumer the democrat from new york trying to push this off again until after the election but was unsuccessful in that in the end all democrats opposed the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett and one republican side with democrats on that that was republican maine senator susan collins, but all other republicans voted. For judge barrett to become the next jus
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Minister is in the balance of the 3rd place arab Political Alliance from the recent elections. Main rival to form. A new todays top stories are right around the world this is r. T. International. The iranian president says he wants gulf nations to Work Together to provide security in the region comes after his countrys standoff with the u. S. Intensified this week or hinted accused of being behind a drone attack on an all refinery in saudi arabia and made this pledge of support to riyadh. The president has approved the deployment of u. S. Forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and Missile Defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u. A. E. To enhance their ability to defend themselves it is clear that even the saudis themselves dont believe the fiction of the rainy and involvement. Over the drone missile attacks were claimed by who threw rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces will seve
Sources that even after they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear it considered the details of maltreatment fully substantiated a report considered by the committee was based on data provided by President Trumps own Administration Officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house if its to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the Judiciary Committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administrations 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law. Mike hanna aljazeera Washington Well you saw the Vice President visited one Detention Center in that report we also heard that he told another facility crammed with almost 400 men in sweltering heat some said theyd been there for
Than ever for tomorrows new York City Marathon. There will be a substantial number of heavy weapons teams. And highend recall. A million bmws posing a fire risk. The warning from the luxury automaker. Plus, previous reports of cars catching fire. The abc news investigation into the problem. Good morning. Paula is off. Very happy, though, to have diane macedo at the desk. Thanks, good to be here, buddy. Good to see you. Hi, diane. Different seat than usual. If either of those boys brother you, just say something. Got my back. Starting off. Rob is like, im not particularly worried about that. Anyway, lets get right to our top story this morning. President trump is waking up in hawaii this morning. Weve got some pictures from the president s Instagram Account as he greets the locals wearing a lei. In a few hours hell be leaving hawaii for a 13day trip to asia. He starts in japan then south korea, china, vietnam and the philippines all amid serious concerns about the threat of a nuclear no