President trump announced your nomination, he tweeted obamacare will be replaced with a much better and far cheaper alternative. In reality, there is no alternative that protects the millions of americans who depend on the Affordable Care act every day. The truth is President Trump and the republicans in congress are fighting to take Health Care Away from the American People in the middle of a pandemic. President trump has said he wants to protect the American Peoples health care. The reality is right now hes asking the Supreme Court to take it away. Klobuchar asked you earlier today but did not receive an answer, prior to your nomination, were you aware of President Trumps statement committing to nominate judges who will strike down the Affordable Care act . I would appreciate a yes or no answer. Be barrett i want to careful. As im sitting here, i do not recall seeing those statements. I do not recall seeing or hearing those statements, but i do not know what context they were in. I c
Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the american charter. It is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, henry trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. Rules are the same for the first debate. Questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the f
To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
Dissent says so but shes. So youll. Welcome on the watching dogs i am tired and im in the chicago and joining us today to help us sift through this fall out from the great super tuesday is the host of disruption now great name for a podcast by the way Rob Richardson rob thank you for coming on great to be on our time and so the game of thrones for the nomination is definitely took a lot of victims this week but what im interested in knowing and from you and to me she is what did you see on super tuesday and the fallout after words that you feel everyone should be talking about but are talking about enough. Well i mean i believe people are talking about this but the fact is i think Bernie Sanders would be extremely worried if you look at states that joe biden won that he should have won that the narrative was such that you know well Bernie Sanders going to run away with it on tuesday think about this you have you have him losing maine thats his backyard thats a big deal right you know y