Welcome home. Bret good evening. I am bret baier. We are coming to you from Fox News Headquarters in New York. We are following two stories. Alarming news about the number of potential terrorists on the Terror Watch List released into the u. S. By the Biden Administration. We begin in the financial Center Of The World with major turbulence in the economy. Fears of a recession, high Interest Rates have led to selloffs in markets in this country and elsewhere. The dow dropping more than 2. 5 percentage points. The nasdaq lost almost 3. 5 , hemorrhaging 576 points. Tromp calling it the kamala crash. We will speak with larry kudlow. It started overseas with Japans Equity markets. Then you have london and European Markets open. They plunged about 2 . That sparked the u. S. Concerns we woke up to this morning about global Slow Down fears underway. Back in the u. S. , some of the biggest decliners we have seen continued to be some of the Consumer Companies like Bath And Body works, walgreens
Other things you ought to be ashamed about. We are joined next by Molly Reynolds with the Brookings Institution a government study senior fellow and we will look this morning at the Current Issue of the filibuster the historical book and Current Issue of the legislation awaiting in the u. S. Senate. Hi there. Its good to be there. Lets start with Historical Context the filibuster itself is not in the constitution, how did it come about . You are right the filibuster is not provided for the constitution and we get the filibuster as its used today starting with a little bit of a quirk of history in 1806 the senate was trying to clean up the rulebook and make sure in the modern legislature how to rulebook that was uptodate with the times and noted they had all the books emotion that they werent using called the motion with the previous question so they took it out, it was a housekeeping matter. This made possible the ability later in the Senate History for senators to pursue extended deba
Institution. Theres been some unknown piece of the puzzle. Was this is actually going from a Supreme Court justice in the weeks before president ial election . Who was going to win the president ial election . Which party would have control of the Senate Following the georgia runoffs because theres always been some unknown piece we needed to know and the four pieces are in place as part of the big answer sort of what happens from here. So weve assembled a tremendously knowledgeable group of speakers today to discuss these really important issues. A note to everybody watching, you can submit questions either by emailing events at brookings. Edu or by using the hashtag court reform. Tonight were going to talk to eric holder, former attorney general of the United States and a partner at covington here to deliver opening and both in his time in government and since the Office Attorney general holder has been a leading voice on democracy including fair redistricting, Voting Rights and court
Rescue our lawmakers from those things that arent contributing to your glory. Give them the good sense to listen to your guidance and obey your precepts. Lord, use our senators to plant and water seeds that will bring a harvest of healing, hope, and humility. To our nation and world. Thank you for hearing and answering our prayers, for you are always our refuge and strength. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business, please. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley i want to remind people of how senator johnson and i have been attacked over the months of 2020 for some investigation we have been doing, and i want to
Day. I. Want to hold this hearing i believe we should not being written forward on this nomination a lot of people on our side just ram it through not until the election is ended i would like the world and the country to know more about your spirit this is a vacancy this occurred there a tragic loss to the great woman and were going to build that they could see with another great the stakes are extraordinarily high for the American People theres nothing unconstitutional about this process. Also coming up corona virus infections are rising across europe but nowhere is the surge as great as in spain and that people say they know who is to blame to not get in more do not want to experience that again the government has to do its homework and must keep its promises and more personnel. Lets you our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day watching americas politicians trying to hold court today Senate Hearings of the conte