Higher. And 2 dead and 25 missing after a storm hits france and italy sweeping away houses and roads. Thanks for joining Us Donald Trump says the next few days will be the real test but he did pledge to finish his president ial Election Campaign aide just the way it started he made the comments in a new video posted on twitter from the Walter Reed Medical Center where hes being treated for corona virus now the president also said he was starting to feel much better and that he moved to the Medical Center for treatment because he didnt want to stay locked up in the white house this follows a period of mixed messages earlier the president s doctor sean conley has said that trump was doing very well and had been fever free for 24 hours but minutes after that an official close to trump said some of his vital signs over the past 24 hours have been very concerning about the next 48 hours are critical meanwhile Senate Republicans have canceled all legislative work until october the 19th as th
From seven majority muslim nations. And we will hear the voice of a holocaust survivor and former refugee, the late grandmother of Donald Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner. We could never understand [indiscernible] this we will never know. Amy we will speak to the nations lizzy ratner, author of a new piece, nobody wanted to take us in the story of jared kushneners family, and mine. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The full senate has confirmed longtime exxonmobil ceo rex titillerson to be secrcretary of state. Reuters reports the 56 to 43 sesenate vote was the e closest vote, by a wide margin, for a secretary of state n nominee int least a half century. Three demomocrats backed tillersons nonatition mamark warner of virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of north dakota, and joe manchin of west virginia. Trumps nomination of tillerson has been widely condemned by environmental activist. Klein said tillerson and other
News. President trumps race to fill the Supreme Court. Tonight, his second opening, his chance to make history. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. He was a conservative, but a liberal swing vote on samesex marnl and abortion and trump has the power to ensure that vote goes the other way. For decades. And make no mistake, this is a race to get kennedys replacement confirmed before the midterms. Possibly take away trumps majority in congress. Mr. President , its an election year, would you be in consideration of holding the spot open until the make up of congress the determined . I havent really thought about that. I think you want to go as quickly as possible. Speed. Quickly as possible. And trump doesnt have any battle within his own party on this one. The Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is ready to race, too. He wants a new supreme Court Justice getting that through the senate by the election. We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedys successor. This fall. Okay. Electio
This happened in the u. S. Senate while that nominee was being assessed for the job. My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed. By vicious and false additional accusations. You have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. Since my nomination in july there has been a frenzy on the left, anything to block my confirmation. People have been willing to do anything to make any physical threat against my family to, send any violent email to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends to blow me up and take me down. You sowed to the wind. For decades to come, i fear that the whole country will reap the whirlwind. The behavior of several of the democratic members of this committee in my hearing a few weeks ago was an embarrassment, but at least it was just a good oldfashioned attempt at borking. Those efforts didnt work. When i did at least okay enough at the hearings that it looked like i might actually get confirmed, a new tac