The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in. They are going to work on a judicial nomination with a confirmation vote scheduled for 5 30 for 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Republicans leader Mitch Mcconnell may introduce the republican covid19 recovery plan. Live now to the senate floor. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, we again thank you for the life and legacy of representative john robert lewis. Lord, accept our gratitude for his ethical congruence that motivated him to find a moral way to get in the way. Were grateful that his passion for freedom summoned our nation to embrace our best hopes and not our worst fears. Inspired by his exemplary pilgrimage, may our lawmakers strive to live with such integrity that they will stand on the right side of history. Lord, help our senators to strive to see you more clearly, to love you more dearly, and to follow you more nearly day by d
Disappearing. They examined the rise of arbitration. This is over one hour. Welcome to the conversation about the disappearing civil jury trial. I have a great privilege of heading this wonderful institution. Which has a mandate from congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. What we have the opportunity to do thanks to this Wonderful Program is to delve into a provision of the bill of rights that many of us are not familiar with. That is the seventh amendment. We are going to ask, why is it , whiche civil jury trial represented 20 of all trials in 2 ofnow represents only federal triers and less than 1 of state trials. It is a disappearing right. We were going to discuss why that happened. Lets begin with a text from the with thison in begin beautiful new edition of the constitution from the National Constitution center with a thrilling new introduction by yours truly and David Rubenstein about the relationship between the constitution and the bi
Gave a positive image and got fdr democrats. Say theympaign, people are coming over to our campaign who have been democrats their whole life. It cuts across racial, party lines. If we have the shared value, that is how we win. States. Purple, and blue we love the story. Oh, sure. [indiscernible] thank you so much. Of course. Here. Are we . Oh, right [indiscernible] you guys want a picture . Blocking thes lens. Photobombing . Cmon. You want a picture . Yeah. What is your name . Meetn . Very nice to you. Sir. Good to see you, coming out. R thank you for that. Thank you for everything you do. Tomorrow, our road to the white house coverage continues with more from the iowa state fair. We will hear from florida representative, the chair of the Democratic National committee. Also hear from Chris Christie and bobby jindal. Follow the cspan cities tour as her travel outside the national beltway. Tour isdea behind the to take the programming from American History television out on the road. We
I didnt come to represent me. I didnt camera present diane french coal. Representing the people on the street right now. Its the only heat we have in december. And the hurricane happened in august. Omebody needs to hear why were less than 500,000 people spread over 50 states . Thats the question my neighbors want to know. And again, it was 10 years ago that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Region will stop one Million People were displaced and about 10,000 people died. We will show you scenes from new orleans after the we dont know how it will end. It is also possible that five years down the road we will be back in afghanistan. It is much worse than the taliban. The taliban is deeply entrenched and harley defeated. If and hardly defeated. If we end up in five years in a new civil war with new save havens for the taliban and isis, then i would say does not worth the price. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific on cspan skew and dave. Cspans q and day. Those participating i
, several senators. Some very articulate men and a this point. Race at we probably have 20 candidates. For him to win, hes got to its not going to get handed to him. Hes got to run an effective campaign. I think that in the case of hillary clinton, its a little bit different. If her name was bill clinton junior, she might be challenged. Choose not being challenged at this point in time. Im not the expert on democrats, but i dont think anyone will run against her with any significance. I think she will be the nominee. It could easily be A Bush Clinton campaign. At this point in time of my side its too difficult to predict. Julie there have been a lot of focus groups and polls and stuff showing jeb bush having problems the early states, voters are hostile towards him. His name, his positions on common core and immigration and more. I dont think that he is a lock to get the republican nomination at all. I think its a folly to try to predict this early. Her disapproval ratings are going up