if brett kavanaugh s confirmed to the supreme court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, women s rights and voting rights for decades to come. all i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. in the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. you live in unusual times as i do. you should get more than 90 votes but you won t, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. it s got nothing to do about you. if you don t mind, and you don t have to, what did you tell your children yesterday about the hearing?
administration? could they potentially be on the chopping block or sidelined? we ll have to see. a beautiful day in washington, kristen welker, thanks. we want to show, folks, heading to a break, chairman grassley is back from what combination of senate votes and lunch he has enjoyed. that s him, just him so far. he likes to keep to the clock. they have not gavelled back into order. he needs at least one or two members of the committee to do that. the entire gallery is out. the nominee is not there. we re going to take a break. we will not miss a moment of the hearing, or the sound of the gavel when we come right back. and i m still going for my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin, i m up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both.
democratic senators we think have been given a pass by chuck schumer more interested in holding the senate and not voting against this nominee. indiana, north dakota and give us the view of chairman grassley. getting so much television time and new pairs of eyeballs who don t normally watch proceedings like this, and not only that, is this a level of intensity you ve never seen before on a hearing like this? absolutely. yesterday was so rough. senator grassley has had a pretty much good working relationship with dianne feinstein and the democrats on the very tough questions they ve faced with jim comey, all of that, far more collegial than what we ve seen certainly on the house side. so he gets some good marks. there were a few moments along the way in the recent months where he has really come up against the democrats in, you
don t want to have a cloud over the nomination, i am prepared to ask the committee, humbly, withhold further hearings until you disclose everything. why don t you do that. senator, i do not believe that s consistent of what prior nominees have done that s been in this circumstance. it is a decision for the senate and the executive branch. justice scalia explained it clearly in his hearing. are you happy of that decision? i do not. this is the long-term interests of the senate and the executive branch are at play. justice scalia, explained that well i thought. i was not here for justice scalia but i will tell you let me interrupt without taking time away from you so don t charge him for this time. here is something that the nominee does not need any help for me to answer this.
they did as they i ll tell them what they told me. they gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. i just wish if we could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up. is that asking too much? so what kind of country have we become? none of this happened just a couple years ago. it s getting worse and worse and worse and all of us have an obligation to try to correct it where we can. row v. wade. are you familiar with the case? i am, senator. can you in 30 seconds give me the general holding of roe v.