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Go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arrived prepared with visuals. among them, excerpts from a book for children called anti-racist baby. senator cruz seemed intent on questioning judge jackson about critical race theory. what, may i ask you, do you think the point of that was in oh, say, claire, a midterm election year? yeah. it was really awkward. ted cruz knows better. this is a woman that has a really long judicial record. hundreds of opinions. that he could mine for nuggets that would prove his point, but oh, no. oh, no. there s nothing there in her actual judicial record. so he s trying to shoe horn, you know, cultural war buzz words into a record that is just ....
0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are claire mccaskill and msnbc political analyst with danielle holly walker, dean and professor at howard school of law and joyce vance, law professor at university of alabama as well as an msnbc legal analyst. we have a few minutes before we go back to the hearing. claire, i want to start with you. just some of the fireworks that happened earlier today. just in the last hour or so. senator ted cruz arriv ....