Speaker, i don t want to ruin your reputation, but i look forward to working with you. [laughter] and i want to congratulate the new leader of the house democrats, the first african american minority leader in history, hakeem jeffries. he won despite the fact i campaigned for him. congratulations to the longest serving leader in this history of the united states senate, mitch mcconnell, where are you, mitch? and congratulations to chuck schumer, another term in the
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,
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100% committed doit to going th the confirmation process. she arrived on capitol hill to win over senate democrats. among them, dianne feinstein and joe manchin. democrats accuse the cia of spying on senate investigators. the aclu told fox that a minimal support role in the controversial program that included the water boarding of self-described khalid sheikh mohammed should disqualified haspel. the biggest concern, with the entire history of the united states senate, the senate has never confirmed somebody with an operational role in the use of torture. that would be a first. a new low for the country if she gets confirmed. the vote is looking very close coming down to a handful
Visible support for the nominee but that seems to be changing in advance of wednesday, julie. julie: haspel, now the first woman to be acting director, will be on the hill. fox news understand that she will be on the hill today to meet with at least three democrats. senior democrat on both senate intelligence and judiciary committee dianne feinstein who led an investigation into the c.i.a. program. democrats accused the c.i.a. of spying on senate investigators and expected to meet with heinrich and manchin. some say she is disqualified because of water boarding. in the entire history of the united states senate as far as we know the senate has never confirmed somebody with an operational role in the use of torture. that would be a first. a new low for the country if she gets confirmed.