good morning. good morning. the committee will come to order. today we re considering the nomination of eugene scalia. let me say before i begin my opening statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. and we welcome mr. scalia s family. we ll give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. there s so many of them and i won t the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we won t come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings aren t necessarily a family exercise. i was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. i was accustomed to it, but they weren t. but they got over it before very long. we welcome you here and we re glad you re here. yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delay s today s hearings. i think the committee members kn
leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. it s a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of abraham lincoln, volume i, a self-made man, sidney blumenthal. and richard brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. grant but the author of a. lincoln and an expert in lincoln s writings, ronald a. white. welcome to you all. so our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. we will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. in fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. the first person i want to talk to in relation to lincoln s inspiration are the three sets of parents, really, not one person but three, the three sets of parents in his life. you have all written about them. by the three, i mean
might have the bear buying the stock. cramer will be here in moments. first we start off with a surprising development with the trump trade, with the quarter about to end, check out the winners of 2017, tech is up 12%. health care is up 8%. these were the two sectors that wall street thought could suffer under president trump, on the full size, energy, financials, go sectors people thought would flourish. they are trailing the s&p 500, as the trade seems to be morphing. you stick with what s working or buy the trump laggers. pete najerian, kick it off. i continue to like the financials, even though i know they lagged this year. they had a big huge run. i think when they come out, it s going to be fantastic. i think there is a trump agenda that will be very beneficial for them on top of everything else. i look at the technology side of it. that s going to continue to perform in my opinion. tech, all of that i think has plenty of room to the upside. if you look at the laquers
thank you. glory, golory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on my good friend and great republican dick nixon and your charming wife pat, my running mate, that wonderful republican who served us so well for so long, bill miller, and his wife stephanie, to thureston martin who has done such a commendable job in chairing this convention, to mr. herbert hoover who i hope is watching, and to that that great american and his wife general and mrs. eisenhower. to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans here assembled and americans across this great nation, from this moment united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. together together we will win. i accept your nomination with a deep se
this week filing a lawsuit against the president for his use of executive orders. have relations between the white house and congressional republicans reached a new low? that is our question. our phone lines are open at (202) 585-3880, our line for democrats. for) 585-3881, our line republicans, and if you are independent, (202) 585-3882. join us on social media, send us an e-mail, journal@c-span.org or send us a tweet @cspanwj . good sunday morning. above the fold in the new york times, the news from afghanistan secretary of state john kerry brokering a deal to audit the afghan votes. this comes 12 hours of often tense negotiations, the secretary of state announcing yesterday that afghanistan would audit all 8 million votes. host: we will have more with shane harris on the situation in afghanistan. also the latest calming raids by hamas and israel and the israeli army indicating it is prepared to send boots on the ground as early as today or tomorrow. let s been with anoth