And extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. Hello thanks for joining us a divided u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee any tony barrett just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the courts that see became vacant after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacements to be chosen after the president. Election of Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee and he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused t
Extreme weather warning the u. N. Says the number of climate related natural disasters has doubled in 20 years and cost the world trillions of dollars. Polo a divided senate u. S. Senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court nominee a macone barrett just 3 weeks from the president ial election so republicans are trying to rapidly confirm her and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to serve for decades as the 1st hearing gets underway protesters both for and against barretts confirmation have been chanting outside the courts became vacant after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen after the president ial election. Lindsey graham as the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee he defended the timing of barretts nomination though the Republican Majority Senate 4 years ago refused to consider Barack Obamas nomi
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capitol riot. the focus of tonight s hearing, those critical 187 minutes during the riot when trump refused to take any action to call off that mob. more now from cnn s ryan nobles in washington. reporter: one text exchange is the sum total of what the secret service handed over to the january 6 committee leaving more questions about what the agency is up to. we re trying to determine where the texts are and whether they can be recovered. reporter: the secret service says their agents don t texas p job. messages that the dhs inspector general believes were deleted during a dwight upgrade program. there is a lot more questions to answer. but we have a responsibility to tell the truth and to chase the facts and that is what we man do in this regard as well as our general oversight over the executive department. reporter: meanwhile secret service has started complying with the committee subpoena handing over thousands of documents, including radio traffic and emails.