A News Conference for the forest time since hamas brutal attack on israel nearly three weeks ago. Ainsley comes as ant Antony Blinken brian hostages are lobbying on capitol hill and demanding lawmakers did moray to bring their loved one home. Steve speaking of capitol hill. Im in washington as louisiana congressman mike johnson emerges as new front runner in the race for House Speaker. We could see a floor vote starting at noon today. Well talk about that in just a moment. Lawrence overseas, middle east troops are attacked four times. Brian they forgot to tell us that. Ainsley israel face attacks on their northern border from lebanon and syria. Brian is anyone going to answer their attacks . Trey yingst is on the ground in southern israel. Hey, trey. Reporter hey, guys, good morning. Were following a number of developments in the reon and a Northern Front and Southern Front is active inside the west bank and along the israel and gaza border we watched as israelis continued air strike a
Backing now justice kavanaugh said he ought to be treated as if he s innocent until proven guilty. you disagreed. you said, no, the burden is on him to disprove the allegations against him. there are a lot of people that hear that going, whoa, wait a minute. right. i m guilty until proven innocent? let me speak to that, chuck, if i can. this is a confirmation hearing. no one is entitled to a seat on the supreme court. it s not a criminal trial, it s more like a job hearing, more like a job interview. the president has a whole series of credentialed and qualified conservative judges from among whom he could choose to put someone forward to the senate of the united states for confirmation. if there are credible allegations against this particular nominee, and if this particular nominee, in his confirmation process conducts himself in a way there are real questions about candor, partisanship, fitness, i think it s appropriate for the committee, the senate to say,
Here. if this got to indictment, we would be looking at a lot more known factors. we re dealing with a memo that is highly speculative. at this point, i don t think it changes the legal analysis. if congress really wants to know the truth and if truth is really what we re seeking here, congress should be the one to appoint a special counsel with a much more particularized mandate. neil: good luck with that. we re running out of lawyers. let me ask your thoughts on what the president was once again saying about jeff sessions, his attorney general. if he had to do it over again, he wouldn t pick him. that s not new. the fact that he rumbles about that. what do you make of that? and jeff sessions in his job hearing that his chief doesn t flip over him. right. all of those appointments serve at the pleasure of the president. this is an interesting tie-in