[inaudible conversations] good morning to everybody who is here, and especially those who are prepared for testimony today. We welcome everybody on what i think will be the final day of judge gorsuch confirmation hearing. Weve already heard todays of impressive testimony from the nominee. I think is shown great command of the law, and i think he has showed a humility with his humble delivery, and i think people learned a lot about not only our political system but our judicial system with whats going on the last three days. Today we will hear from a number of outside witnesses. We will they are from a number of distinguished witnesses, bot in support and in opposition to the nominee. They will all speak to then qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice. Mi i look forward to hearing from all the witnesses today. Let me modify this a little bit because im going to spend maybe 15 minutes at the agriculture community, because the nominee for secretary of agriculture is before the commit
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