future supreme court nominees, but also potentially on the way the sene operates in terms of personal relationshipsnd rther, and maybe most important, it threatens to drag the supreme court itself into the muck and mire of partisanship, political gamesmanship. the power of the supreme court really depends on respect and trust that the american people have. it has no armies, no police force. its rulings are obeyed and respected simply because it is above politics. what we re seeing now dangerously is the supreme court dragged into this mess. but senator, here s the funny little thing. the reason they would go nuclear is if you filibuster gorsuch. so you ve got the power to not filibuster. it is our right under the rules to filibuster. someone who we regard as out of the mainstream. he evaded our questions in the hearing, which shows very simply
speech. i have ted kennedy s i am the senator from massachusetts as well. and i started with ted kennedy s speech, also about jeff sessions, when the senate judiciary committee considered him. and i read senator kennedy s speech, and i got warned in senator kennedy s speech. but again, i just want to say on both of these, highly relevant to the question of whether jeff sessions should be attorney general of the united states. and i thought it was entirely appropriate to be citing a revered member of the united states sene on the floor of the senate. and that was the warning. at the same time, the rules say, can t impugn the character of another senator. let s go back over this. this is coretta scott king talking about the facts as she saw them. that he used he, jeff sessions, used his office to chill the free exercise of the
the vladimir putin and the russian threat. that is a matter of concern. we ll give him his chance. that s what confirmation process and advise and consent is all about. the timing here, hans, is the interesting thing, his name being floated when we re getting a report from the cia of russia influencing our election in the united states and that russia/russia balance not looking necessarily optically good. reporter: the danger, rich d richard, for the incoming trump administration is this review on what russia actually did, what role they played in the u.s. election, interfering, putting their thumbs on the scale, what that investigation does with the very public confirmation hearings we could potentially have for secretary of state a secretary of state nominee rex tillerson because it s very clear that they re going to be two inquiries taking place, one here at the white house, they ll report up to president obama on what russia s role was, and then in the sene there have been bipa
over 450 people that have been close to the victims have come to that stone to mourn their loss. we ve seen incredibly emotional displays of grief. people arriving there to be close to their loved ones. and today we re expecting in just a very short while the ceo of lufthansa, carsten spore, which i believe he s arrived just over there. he s arrived to also pay his respects. his spokesperson saying that he s here to lay flowers. you can see the flowers there. he s also here to say a prayer to mourn the loss of all the victims on that plane. now, he was just not far from here in a place called sene where mef the staging area for the recovery operation. there he met with the pilots the emergency workers who have made at times, a very difficult recovery operation possible.
school more expensive for our young people. oh, yeah. once again, on july 1st, the interstate on subsidized student loans is expected to double. if you re one of the 7 million students who borrow money through the subsidized loan program, sometimes called the stafford loan program, this affects you. reporter: and thomas, education officials say it s great that washington is focused on this issue of student loan rates, but they say the real issue is the rising cost of tuition and they want lrps to focus more of their attention on that as well. thomas? nbc s kristen welker reporting from the white house. kristen, thanks so much. appreciate it. reporter: thanks. i would like to bring in jared bernstein now, the former chief economist for vice president biden and an msnbc contributor. jared, you ve heard all of this. and is kristen is reporting there, this house plan allows the student loan rates to go up and down with the market and resets every year. the president wants to lo