Of their choice, including abortion, Voting Rights, the Affordable Care act, and religious liberty. [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. Cleanup well. You look good. The game plan for today is to do our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge barrett and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. We will not get it done today, 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
As a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. It is also a place for we encourage participatory democracy. In fact, we just started a nonpartisan effort called just a vote. Just vote. Most important, i encourage you on november 3 yto just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. Where we want to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. Programn think of no and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest, Justice Stephen breyer. Breyer is a man for our time and demand for all time. Here in boston, we are proud to claim him as one of our a graduate of stanford, oxford, and harvard law, he went on to workforce for Supreme Court Justice Arthur goldberg. He served for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and taught at the Kennedy School of government. He was a lawyer in the antitrust division of the Justice Department and was an assistant special coun
This morning from the president ial suite at walter reed. White house chief of staff mark meadows told foxnews the president could be discharged as early as today. The president made a decision on whether to discharge later today. Reporter questions remain about the president s condition. The president stock is now acknowledge he had a high fever on friday and say his oxygen levels dropped twice. We have also learned the president has been given a steroid in addition to remdesivir and an experimental antibody cocktail. The question is, is his disease much more severe than is being describedbeeen the potency of the drug and what is going on. Reporter the white house is hoal g backlash after the suite sunday evening to drive by supporters who had taken up vigil outside of walter reed. Administration Officials Say the president s doctors approved the trip where he was seen wearing a mask but Health Experts say he risk exposing his security detail to the virus. Leaving hospital, going to a
At cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, Justice Stephen breyer talks about the role of the Supreme Court with msnbc chief Legal Correspondent ari melber in a discussion presented by the Kennedy Institute for the u. S. Senate. On behalf of the edward m Kennedy Institute for the United States tenant, i am a very pleased to welcome all of you to this very special addition of our getting to the point series. The Kennedy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan place envisioned and planned by my late husband senator edward kennedy. It is a place where visitors come now virtually as well as in person to experience democracy. Through handson learning about the United States senate. And then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. It is also a place where we encourage participatory democracy. In fact, we just started a nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to go to our new website called important, but most i encourag
The meeting at the summit, the most momento summit of the and the gleaming palace ations the big four, america, england, france, and russia, met to seek an end to a decade of cold war. Heading the soviet delegation were khrushchev. Khrushchev called the gun and back, though he appeared very much the boss. President eisenhower accompanied by the secretary of state dulles offered to exchange military information with the russians in a dramatic personal appeal, but the plan was rejected. And the president s wartime friend had left. Britains leader and the french premier supported the american proposal. The president startled and delighted genevans by going windowshopping near the partys end. He proved a Popular American ambassador of goodwill. On the return to washington, a heavy rain drenched mrs. Eisenhower, the president , and the welcoming party, including Vice President nixon, ms. Nixon, the president s motherinlaw, and his daughterinlaw. Also at the airport were cabinet members, con