Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had
Market converge over the next few days. First there is t earningss is the busiest week for Quarterly Results of the season. Then there is the Federal Reserve which begins the twoday policy meeting tomorrow with the decision on Interest Rates due wednesday. Trade talks between the u. S. And china are set to resume. And the nations labor market which has been fuelling the consumer comes into f the release of the monthly jobs report. But today investors were willing to wait and see what happens. With the major indexes hovering around ae high. The dow jones average wast 28 po to 27,221 and the nasdaq fell 36 and the s p 5 was down 4. Bob pisani has more on what lies ahead for investors. The calm before the storm. The market is bracing for the busiest week for earningsnd the Global Economy and fed meeting. So investors are reassured bytr e talks havent blown up and Central Banks are keepite st rates low and will continue to do so and third earnings are n collapsing. They are flattish but no
exclusive report reveals federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children were vitims of human trafficking amid allegations they were illegally employed to clean slaughter houses. we begin with a high stakes fiscal fight now underway here in the nation s capital. the treasury secretary said today could be the day the u.s. reaches its borrowing limit. once that happens, the treasury department will start taking extraordinary measures to make sure the nation pays its bills, but those measures could run out sometime in june. now it s up to congress to raise the debt limit. many republicans say they will not do so unless there are cuts in federal spending setting the stage for an economic showdown with democrats and the white house which insists the debt ceiling increase is nongauchable. it s something that should be done without conditions. we should not be negotiating around it. it is the duty, the basic duty of congress to get that done. so we re not going to neg
recourse afforded to address the harm suffered. now, when you look at the legislation, there are pieces of the legislation that pay lip service to due process while legislation, you might say draws near unto due process with its lips, its heart is far from it. whep you read the fine print, the due process to which it refers is not due process at all. it s poacht deprivation post deprivation due process. the procedures we associate with due process, the opportunity to be heard before a fair and partial tribunal, the opportunity to offer up evidence, the opportunity to cross-examine adverse witnesses, things we think of as inextricably intertwined as due process because they are, those things are articulated at the back of this due process paragraph of the bill. it makes revenues to the fact that that s the type of due process that in the view of the bill can, according to state law, be made either before or after the constitutional deprivation in question, depending on the d
republican congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers on gas prices hitting $5 a gallon for the first time in the history, and bill barr on something he told january 6th committee and with our very own lucas tomlinson at white house on a president fending off attacks, it s that 70 # inflation show all over again, and he is the not too happy star. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. happy weekend to you. let s go first to my buddy lucas on how the administration is handling all this bad news on prices. reporter: well, neil, the labor department issuing a brutal report yesterday saying that inflation is getting worse, not better. the average cost of goods up 8.6% over a year ago. now, president biden speaking in los angeles in addition to blaming putin, he s blaming exxon for the skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill. they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one. and number two