Ok good afternoon to everybody. Now is everyone here knows, we have all been sworn in by the chief justice of the United States. To Service Judges and jurors in the impeachment trial of President Trump. When the chief justice walked in, you can feel the weight of the moment. I saw members on both sides of the aisle, visibly gold. The weight of history since on shoulders. This produces sometimes result you never know what will happen. For some of us here, this is the first time we have done this. For others like myself this is the second time but i assure you, there is no difference. Even though ive gone through this before, for all of us this lemonade and the gravity of the moment in our history into scorn the back when you take that oath. A separate oath designed by the senate only for senators, who will serve in a court of impeachment. The feeling in the Senate Chamber and the solemn serious profound. The weight of history, the eyes of history, you feel it are upon you. I know every
About, why dont you try and write it down . Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are henry mance, Political Correspondent at the Financial Times and Deborah Haynes, defence editor at the times. Will be take you through some of the papers at the moment. First, a quick summary. The times leads on an interview with a Government Security minister about plans to tax internet giants if they dont help combat terrorism. On a lighter note, theres also a colourful picture of eddie the eagle and fans some of the stuntmans tricks will be shown during londons new years day parade. The observer takes a closer look at the fallout from lord adonis resignation and the labour peers call for Chris Grayling to resign. The mail on sunday reports on plans for so called unpaid Border Guards at ports and airports it also shows rod stewart modelling an interesting choice of knitwear when he turned up to support his beloved celtic earlier this evening. The
Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to circuit subjects. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing these judges and getting them out on the Senate Calendar and therefore available for us to move forward. And that
Religious liberty advocates. Democrats questioned whether her personal views would override her legal judgment. This is the five minutes. 35 minutes. Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to confirm circuit subjects. Chairman grassley
President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges that had empathy for parties. Well, the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride. This administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach that the judge of a judge is try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome youve reached, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red, dont wear blue, they wear black. We are this week going to confirm four circuit junction. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing the judges and getting them out and available for us to move forward and thats what we intent to do beginning this week. We often hear our democratic friends talking about the war on women, three or four judges that will be before the senate this week are women. We are going to lead off with