the memories of june 12, 2016. brandon was inside the club s bathroom when a gunman opened fire on the dance floor. music was still playing. and about a dozen people rushed in the door panicked. they weren t screaming, but their eyes were screaming if that makes sense. and i remember them crouching on the floor saying there was a man with a gun. and there was this furious debate about whether we should hide or run. but we were in a men s only restroom with no stalls and no doors. so the only option was to run. brandon escaping through a back door. his two best friends, juan and drew, were on the dance floor at the time and didn t stand a chance. they were among the 49 people killed and more than 50 others were injured. i m curious where everybody is at this level.
and just very grateful that train was able to stop. and also, because there were a lot of children on the train, that they re okay. they were quiet. they weren t it wasn t but they weren t screaming. they weren t crying. fortunately they had their parents with them to console them and they re okay. lawmakers children, staffers children? i m only aware of lawmakers children. you have many members you have almost all of the republicans in the house and the senate on the train, including leadership, not everyone, but almost everyone. many do bring their spouse, a bunch of others bring their kids as well. as you were just covering, part of the purpose of a retreat on the policy front will be the substantive meeting about what to do with the legislative
remind me that it must also be a modest one. properly deferential to the decisions of the american people, and their elected representatives. several republicans, of course, expressing concern that kagan would become a judicial i ve got to stop you. yeah. you ve said something, people have everybody said the same thing when they saw it, it already looks like an snl skit. not in her delivery, there s just something about the way the set looks. i don t know what it is. i think the senate cameraman decided, lighting director said, let s make this thing look like an snl skit. unfortunately we have to wait awhile before snl comes back. the opportunity has passed. did anybody watch that anymore? what? it s nothing but theater. oh, these hearings? these hearings. no, no. snl, obviously. but, no. these things are such theater. yeah. i mean, i just absolutely i used to be transfixed by these, even in the 80s when they weren t screaming.