[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done 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 very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si
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Fighting. Genuine drama across the country as the frontrunner for the republican nomination indicted on 91 felonies. Nevertheless, remains the prohibited favorite. I want to start by thanksing the Supreme Court. And his final primary opponent says justice should proceed. Tonight Special Election coverage. Nicole wallace, joy reid, jen psaki, Lawrence Odonnell, Stephanie Ruhle all here. Hakeem jefferies joining us. Mitch landreau plus the Campaign Experts and Steve Kornacki with results and analysis a the the big board. The election of 2024 has kind of taken shape. Special election of Super Tuesday primaries begins now. Its here. Its finally happening. Its super. Good evening and welcome. Thank you for joining us. It is Super Tuesday. I havent slept in a week. Im Rachel Maddow and nicole wallace, youre back. Weve missed you so much. And ari melber. Many more of our colleagues are going to be joining us throughout the very, very long, awesome, interesting night. America has not had a rer