in high-risk parts of the capital seoul, measures will remain. starting november 13th if you do not wear a face mask, you'll pay a fine, roughly $87. >> see you tomorrow. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. hi there, i'm brianna keilar. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. there are troubling signs in the nation's fight against covid-19. 31 states are now showing an increase in new cases compared to just a week ago. five of them, montana, new mexico, tennessee, north carolina and vermont experiencing a surge of 50% or higher. just three states are on the decline. from last wednesday through saturday, the number of new u.s. infections topped more than 50,000 each day. the last time that happened was more than two months ago. and today, new research published in the journal of the

american medical association showing there were 20% more deaths across the country between march 1st and august 1st. this is a total of 1.3 million with covid-19 officially accounting for about two-thirds of them, bolstering beliefs that deaths tied to the pandemic have likely been undercounted. tom foreman is with me now. tom, we're seeing records set for new cases in a single day as well as seven-day averages. tell us which states are reporting these numbers. >> reporter: well, as a practical matter, more than 30 are headed up but if you look at the states seeing the biggest increase in the seven-day average, what you do see is a greater propensity for that as you move into the more northern states. you see it worse in the northern states. easy reasons. we went back to school and because, by the way, getting cooler. get north of the line there where you see more of the states clustered, you see the two down there, oklahoma and new mexico are the only two below that line. well, above that line, above

that line the temperature right now tends to be 60 degrees or cooler. below that line, 60 degrees or warmer, so of course people are being forced closer together. those are the 13 states with the highest seven-day average. if you look at those that have had the spike, the seven states with the highest spike so far in the handling of this virus, there you see them and they're all through that middle of the country. these are representative of exactly what you started off talking about. the notion that as we headed into fall and have been warned over and over again, we'd see this surging back up. sure enough, the numbers say it is surging back up. the weather is not going to let up. more states are trying to open up. there's no real reason to believe this is going to get better and that difficult fall and difficult winter that you and i have been talking about for months and months indeed is under way. >> all right. tom foreman, thank you so much for showing us that. you wouldn't know that our nation was in the grips of a

pandemic, one that has killed nearly 215,000 people in this country and infected almost 8 million if you listen to the president. here is what he told a crowd at the white house on saturday. >> science, medicine will eradicate the china virus once and for all. we'll get rid of it all over the world. it's going to disappear. it is disappearing. >> today the president is returning to the campaign trail in a four-state swing that kicks off in florida and is followed by pennsylvania, iowa and north carolina. all states, minding y you, that not doing particularly well when it comes to coronavirus. the president is bringing a new round of covid misinformation along with him, including this tweet in which he says he's immune from the virus. that earning a warning label from twitter saying the tweet was misleading. kaitlin collins is our cnn white house correspondent following the president right now. kaitlin, we've learned that nine people in minnesota tested

positive for the coronavirus following the president's rally there a few weeks ago. is the trump campaign changing any guidelines around these events? >> reporter: so far they haven't said as much. they said they'll keep the guidelines they have in place, which is asking people to wear masks. of course as we've seen, people mostly do not follow this. it's actually few and far between people wearing masks at these rallies, though they do have their temperatures checked. these are largely at airport hangars where people are mingling outside but there's no social distancing at this event. you can see how problematic that can be if you're not wearing a mask and not social distancing just from the event at rose garden. how many people from that now have coronavirus. coronavirus isn't going away in the united states but not here at the white house either because several aides are still not coming into work because they are at home isolating after testing positive or quarantining after coming into contact with someone. but the president himself is emerging from isolation and taking his first trip outside of washington today.

brianna, for a campaign rally in florida. but he's got a packed schedule the rest of the week. campaign officials have told us we can basically expect that to be the case up until election day. >> this weekend you got an exclusive with dr. anthony fauci. he is pushing back against a trump campaign ad that fauci says took his words out of context. tell us what happened here. >> reporter: this is a new ad that the trump campaign debuted last week after he was released from walter reed. in it it's talking about the president and his coronavirus response. it flashes to dr. fauci briefly saying he doesn't think there was anything more they could have done. it doesn't have a date on it, but that's a comment dr. fauci made in march, and he says that he believes that they took his words out of context because he said what he was -- >> i'm going to have you pause just for a moment. we're going to capitol hill and watch the supreme court hearing. >> just wait just one second.

we don't see you. >> of course. you don't see me. >> one, congratulations on being on the ticket. i hadn't told you that. there we go. >> can you see me now? >> i can see you now. hear you loud and clear. the floor is yours. >> mr. chairman, can you see me and hear me? >> i see you, i hear you, the floor is yours. >> i appreciate it. thank you, mr. chairman. this hearing has brought together more than 50 people to sit inside of a closed door room for hours while our nation is facing a deadly airborne virus. this committee has ignored common sense requests to keep people safe, including not requiring testing for all members, despite a coronavirus outbreak among senators of this very committee. by contrast, in response to this recent senate outbreak, the leaders of senate republicans rightly postponed business on the senate floor this week to protect the health and safety of

senators and staff. mr. chairman, for the same reasons, this hearing should have been postponed. the decision to hold this hearing now is reckless and places facilities workers, janitorial staff and congressional aides and capitol police at risk, not to mention that while tens of millions of americans are struggling to pay their bills, the senate should be prioritizing coronavirus relief and providing financial support to those families. the american people need to have help to make rent or their mortgage payment. we should provide financial assistance to those who have lost their job and help parents put food on the table. small businesses need help, as do the cities, towns and hospitals that this crisis has pushed to the brink. the house bill would help families and small businesses get through this crisis, but senate republicans have not lifted a finger for 150 days,

which is how long that bill has been here in the senate to move the bill. yet this committee is determined to rush a supreme court confirmation hearing through in just 16 days. senate republicans have made it chris cal clerystal clear that supreme court nomination is more important than helping and supporting the american people who have suffering from a deadly pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. their priorities are not the american people's priorities. but for the most senate republicans hold the majority in the senate and determine the schedule, so here we are. the constitution of the united states entrusts the senate with the solemn duty to carefully consider nominations for lifetime appointments to the united states supreme court, yet the senate majority is rushing this process and jamming president trump's nominee through the senate while people

are actually voting. just 22 days before the end of the election. more than 9 million americans have already voted and millions more will vote while this illegitimate committee process is under way. a clear majority of americans want whomever wins this election to fill this seat, and my republican colleagues know that. yet, they are deliberately defying the will of the people in their attempt to roll back the rights and protections provided under the affordable care act. and let's remember, in 2017 president trump and congressional republicans repeatedly tried to get rid of the affordable care act. but remember, people from all walks of life spoke out and demanded republicans stop trying to take away the american people's health care. republicans finally realized that the affordable care act is

too popular to repeal in congress, so now they are trying to bypass the will of the voters and have the supreme court do their dirty work. that's why president trump promised to only nominate judges who will get rid of the affordable care act. this administration with the support of senate republicans will be in front of the supreme court on november 10th to argue that the entire affordable care act should be struck down. that's in 29 days that that will happen. and that's a big reason why senate republicans are rushing this process. they are trying to get a justice onto the court in time to ensure they can strip away the protections of the affordable care act. if they succeed, it will result in millions of people losing access to health care at the worst possible time, in the middle of a pandemic. 23 million americans could lose

their health insurance altogether. if they suck, they will eliminate protection for 135 million americans with pre-existing conditions like diabetes, asthma, heart disease or cancer, a list that now will include over 7 million americans who have contracted covid-19. insurance companies could deny you coverage or sell you a plan that won't pay a dime toward treating anything related to your pre-existing condition. if the affordable care act is struck down, you will once again have to pay for things like mammograms and cancer screenings and birth control. seniors will pay more for prescription drugs and young adults will be kicked off of their parents' plan. these are not abstract issues. we need to be clear about how overturning the affordable care act will impact the people we all represent. for example, micah, who is 11

years old and she lives in southern california. so micah enjoys being a girlfriegirl scout and reading and eating and making pasta and baking. her mother says the only reason micah is able to live her life as she does now is because the affordable care act guarantees that her health insurance cannot deny her coverage or limit her care because it's too expensive. you see micah has a congenital heart defect. she goes to multiple specialists throughout the year and gets an mri with anesthesia every six months. at just 11 months old, micah's family had already hit $50,000 in medical expenses and her biannual mri costs were $15,000 a session. so by 11 months old her family had hit $500,000 in medical

expenses. if republicans strike down the affordable care act insurance companies will deny coverage for children with serious conditions, children like micah. and parents, well, they'll be on their own. no one should face financial ruin to get their child or their spouse or their parent the care they need, and no family should be kept from seeing a doctor or getting treatment because an insurance company says that the treatment is too expensive. in america, access to health care should not be determined based on how much money you have. health care and access to health care should be a right. micah and millions of others who are protected by the affordable care act know this is fundamentally what is at stake with this supreme court nomination. of course there's more at stake. throughout our history americans have brought cases to the united states supreme court in our ongoing fight for civil rights, human rights, and equal justice.

decisions like brown versus board of education, which opened upped occasional opportunities for black boys and girls, roe versus wade, which recognized a woman's right to control her own body, loving v. virginia and oberfelt versus hodges which recognized that love is love and that marriage equality is the law of the land. the united states supreme court is often the last refuge for equal justice when our constitutional rights are being violated. justice ruth bader ginsburg devoted her life to fight for equal justice and she defended the constitution. she advocated for human rights and equality. she stood up for the rights of women. she protected workers. she fought for the rights of consumers against big corporations. she supported lgbtq rights. and she did so much more.

but now her legacy and the rights she fought so hard to protect are in jeopardy. by replacing justice ruth bader ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, president trump is attempting to roll back americans' rights for decades to come. every american must understand that with this nomination, equal justice under law is at stake. our voting rights are at stake. workers' rights are at stake. consumer rights are at stake. the right to a safe and legal abortion is at stake. and holding corporations accountable is at stake. and again, there's so much more. so, mr. chairman, i do believe this hearing is a clear attempt to jam through a supreme court nominee who will take health care away from millions of people during a deadly pandemic

that has already killed more than 214,000 americans. i believe we must listen to our constituents and protect their access to health care and wait to confirm a new supreme court justice until after americans decide who they want in the white house. thank you. >> thanks, senator harris. senator kennedy. >> all right. we are watching the confirmation hearing of supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. that was a pretty stunning moment there where you have a vice presidential nominee, who is a sitting senator, and a participant in this judiciary committee hearing, three weeks before the election with comments saying that the woman you see there on your screen who is the nominee, amy coney barrett, is someone who's going to undo ruth bader ginsburg's

legacy. and i want to bring in folks to talk about this, including gloria borger. very much focused on obamacare, which is going to be before this court very soon. and just that split screen of barrett listening to harris as she said that she felt this nomination of amy coney barrett is an attempt to take away the health care of millions of people in the middle of a pandemic. this is a historic moment that we're watching. >> it is. and she also made it very clear that she felt that the nomination was what she said trying to bypass the will of the voters and have the supreme court do their dirty work is the way she put it when it comes to rolling back the affordable care act. so this was clearly a frontal attack, not only on what amy coney barrett would do if she is confirmed to the supreme court, but an attack on the republican senate, which clearly she wants

to change control of the senate to democratic hands, and saying that they are going around the will of the people. that the people ought to decide after this election. also making the case very clearly, brianna, that it took 150 days for them to decide what to do with the stimulus bill, which is sitting in the senate, but 22 days for them to push through a supreme court nomination. so very direct, very clear. s she outlined the stakes as the democrats see it very well, and aimed directly at the republicans and at the nominee. >> joan, you are our supreme court analyst. tell us what stood out to you as you listened to senator harris' opening remarks. >> thanks, brianna. yes, she was more emphatic than we had heard earlier today, but she certainly struck the same note, and i'm sure we're going to hear more about the affordable care act tomorrow. and that's because right away on

november 10th, shortly after justice barrett will likely be seated, the supreme court is going to hear the third major constitutional challenge to that law. as much as president donald trump keeps saying that he would like to preserve pre-existing health coverage for people with such conditions as cancer and diabetes, his administration is before the supreme court saying kill it all, get rid of pre-existing coverage. i think that's what senator harris and some of her colleagues who came before her wanting to stress. and they're taking their message obviously to the american people, to the electorate, rather than trying to comment on what might happen in the senate committee. it's such a done deal given what chairman graham said earlier today. everyone knows how everyone is going to vote, but what senator harris is trying to do is to remind americans watching of the

immediate stakes. one last thing i would mention is not just do we have the affordable care act stakes right away on november 10th, we could have an election-related case that a justice barrett would sit on also and looking forward obviously to sit on all sorts of cases involving reproductive rights, gay and transgender rights, religious freedom. she will be deciding the law of the land for a generation. >> abby phillip, what stood out to you? >> yeah, i think what joan said at the end there is really important. one thing to note, that as we watched earlier today, a lot of the democrats, everybody was on message. it was all about the affordable care act. very few people mentioned other cases as well. but it was notable to me that senator harris specifically mentioned and brought up reproductive rights several times in her opening statement as part of several other types of what she described as equal

justice rights being at risk here. and i think that's significant because democrats are trying to stay on the affordable care act message, because politically speaking they believe that is the strongest message for them. but if you look at what republicans are doing, they're trying to entrap democrats by basically laying -- laying out this kind of scenario in which any conversation about how justice barrett might rule on abortion cases or on, you know, lgbt rights cases are attacks on her religion. i think you saw senator harris basically saying, no, i believe that these cases are about her jurisprudence. they're also about the tradition of the courts in upholding equal rights and equal justice for all americans. i thought that was unique among the democrats who have spoken today because they have really tried to avoid walking in that direction at any moment. but you saw senator harris

really trying to actually be right on the line and trying to reframe this conversation in a way that i think she thinks is important to her as a woman and as the only woman on either of the two tickets going into this november election. >> joan -- sorry, go on, gloria, yes. >> i was just going to add to that, the only people talking about raising her catholicism or her religion seem to be the republicans and not the democrats at all. the democrats understand, as abby is saying, that this is a trick. they're not -- they're just not going to do it. they're going to talk about health care. that's what they're there to talk about. the president has been tweeting, republicans, let them know that we're going to protect pre-existing conditions because he's watching and he sees what's going on in the committee and he doesn't like it. >> how are they going to do that, though, right? it's very unclear. and what we see also senator harris saying here, joan, is

that barrett will undo ginsburg's legacy. it was pretty stunning to watch her say that, as you see in the other frame. amy coney barrett just there listening to senator harris say this. so let's fact check that. do we know based on amy coney barrett's record that that would be something that would happen, that she would undo ruth bader ginsburg's legacy? >> in broad strokes, much of it. if it comes to that. i'll tell you why. her philosophy, as she's laid it out, is akin to justice scalia's legacy, that he wanted and what she subscribes to is the originalist, textualist approach to the constitution and statutes. what that does, just to remind our audience some of the legal jargon, it means that she would interpret the constitution in the terms that its framers back in the 18th century understood

it. it's a legitimate point of view from where she's coming and many of the republican senators are coming from are, but it's the opposite of where ruth bader ginsburg comes from. ruth bader ginsburg believes that -- believed, i'm sorry, i'm still talking about her in the presenting tense. believed that you don't go back to just what the framers saw, you can expand the rights and the liberties in the constitution to fit the dilemmas of today. the difference on that is the difference between upholding roe v. wade or striking down roe v. wade. the difference is between approving of same-sex marriage and not approving of same-sex marriage. i do want to caution one thing when you rightly ask for a fact check on that, brianna. justice ginsburg's legacy in terms of sexual equality for women's rights and for equal protection for women under federal law and the constitution is that is unlikely to be rolled

back. the way ruth bader ginsburg first made her name as a woman's rights advocate. i don't see those kinds of protections for women being undercut, with the exception of being in the area of reproductive rights. amy coney barrett has not ruled in an abortion case but she has certainly spoken about who has the role to safeguard things like reproductive rights and she has said it's a legislative function, not a court's function. that's clearly indicated in her writings. now, we'll have to see what she does when she gets on the supreme court. but in that respect, brianna, yes, it would be night and day between what justice ginsburg stood for and what a justice barrett would stand for. >> i want to bring in jeffrey toobin, our legal analyst into this conversation with all of us. jeffrey, what do you think? as joan said, you look at her record and it does stand in contrast to where ruth bader ginsburg was. what do you think about this?

>> it's 180 degrees different. the idea, to listen to all these republican senators talk about, oh, i want to pay tribute to ruth ginsburg and say how wonderful she was. by confirming amy barrett, they are undermining absolutely everything ruth ginsburg stood for. you know what thinks -- you know who thought that? ruth ginsburg. ruth ginsburg understood the stakes of this nomination. that's why she wanted this put off until the next president. but, you know, whether it's abortion, whether it's gay rights, whether it's voting rights, whether it's civil rights, she -- everybody knows she and antonin scalia were great friends. but on controversial issues, they voted against each other all the time. and amy barrett, as she very explicitly said, is a -- is a protege and a follower and a believer in justice scalia's judicial philosophy.

so that the idea that it is somehow an honor to ruth bader ginsburg to see amy coney barrett nominated to replace her is just an obscene revocation of history. i mean it's just -- they could not be more different. >> we're going to be waiting to see if that is demonstrated tomorrow, right? this is going to be the big moment where she answers questions. what are you expecting to see? >> not much. i mean she's learned -- she's a very smart woman, as every nominee has been a smart person since robert bork in 1987. they have all learned that it is a far safer course not to engage with the questioners about their judicial philosophy, especially about specific cases. i anticipate that it will be

interesting and it will be dramatic at times, but i doubt we are going to learn much about amy coney barrett's philosophy of the constitution. i think one thing that we might learn something about is the issue of precedent, because everything that i've seen in her academic writing suggests she is more like justice thomas than justice scalia. justice scalia understood that precedent mattered. even though you might disagree with a former supreme court opinion, there's a certain reliance interest. people think that's the law. justice thomas thinks if it's wrong, it's wrong, and you just throw the whole thing out. that does appear to be much closer to judge barrett's approach, which suggests a more radical conservative approach than even justice scalia. but perhaps we'll see some interesting questioning about that. >> yeah, that's a huge distinction, so we'll be looking for that tomorrow. jeffrey, thank you so much. thank you so much for everyone

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with just 22 days to go until election day, the candidates are hitting the campaign trail. it's clear from their schedules that swing states are top of mind, of course. take a look at where president trump is headed. florida this evening, pennsylvania on tuesday, iowa on wednesday and former vice president joe biden's week is looking pretty similar. he's visiting ohio today,

florida tomorrow, his wednesday plans tbd at this point. all this campaigning as the senate holds confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. gloria borger is back with us now to talk politics. you know the president obviously has been infected with coronavirus and yet here he is heading to florida and pennsylvania and iowa this week. all of these are states that are seeing a rise in new covid cases. of course many people wondered, gloeria, is getting the virus would cause him to change his outlook and his behaviors. it appears that is completely the opposite of what has happened. >> no. i think we've spent the last almost four years saying will donald trump pivot and become presidential? and the answer to that has always been no. and i think the answer to this is exactly the same. and i think the reason that he's going to these states, brianna, is very clear. these are states he won last time. iowa he won by more on nine points. now it's a tie. these are states he feels he

needs to go to, despite the increase in covid cases, because he needs to win these states again. and i guarantee you, he's not going to be talking about the increase in covid in these states. he's going to be saying the same things he's always been saying, which is that we've turned the corner. and i think a lot of people in a state like iowa or a state like florida, for example, will be scratching their heads about that. >> i want to ask you, the president has tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times today before 10:30 a.m. if you have a tweet alert on him, you're getting blown up, right? >> yes. >> just blown up. and many of those tweets were aimed at getting americans to vote for him. what does this tell you about his confidence three weeks out from the election? >> look, i think this is a president that reads the polls even though he says they're fake. he gets internal analysis where it shows that he is trailing. and i think he's just kind of flailing and throwing everything up against the wall that he can.

when he's not tweeting, he's watching the hearings and he's complaining about republicans, as we were talking about a moment ago, not talking enough about how he's going to protect pre-existing conditions on health care because he understands that health care is an issue the democrats are going to raise and it is an issue that he does not do well on when compared to joe biden. so he understands exactly what's going on and that's one of the reasons he's been kind of like a caged animal stuck in the white house and wants to get out on the campaign trail, even though a lot of people believe that is not what he should be doing, including doctors. >> yeah. all right, gloria borger, great to see you again. thank you. it's been two months since many schools started to reopen, but it's hard to know how they're doing when no one is tracking it nationally. plus, why thousands of people are deliberately exposing themselves to the coronavirus. and why is this republican senator appearing at the supreme

court hearing in person and speaking without a mask just 11 days after his coronavirus diagnosis? this is cnn's special live coverage.

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the largest general motors and largest chrysler plant outside of michigan and ohio. and i saw, i saw what happened when we got hit very hard. we've lost both those plants. let me start off by saying, mr. mayor, thanks for the passport into your city and, marcy, you've been a friend a long time. thank you for your introduction. you know, there's no more fierce defender, there's no more fierce defender with the people she grew up with than marcy. she has never, ever, forgotten where she's come from. she's tough. she's a straight shooter. she's influential in congress. she's honest, and she sees you. you're always in her view. and tony, mr. president, i know you're new. and he said piece of cake so i don't have to worry if i get

elected the first hundred days. but all kidding aside, tony, thank you for hosting us and thank you local 14. and can you -- thanks for that introduction. all you did for barack and me when we were running, when we got elected, jumping in and being part of helping us govern, you remind me of something my dad said. he said, joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about your dignity. it's about your place in the community. it's about respect. it's about being able to say to your kid, look him in the eye and say everything is going to be okay and mean it. that's what a job is about. a decent-paying job like the uaw provides. this is a lesson i grew up with, surrounded by hard-working families in scranton and their claymont, delaware, where we had to move when dad lost work and there was no work in scranton. just like here in toledo. but the times are hard.

unemployment is way up due to the pandemic and the terrible way in which it's been handled. the economic outlook remains uncertain. across ohio and the country, folks are worried about making the next mortgage payment or the rent payment, whether or not they can purchase prescription drugs or be able to put food on the table, literally. worried about whether their kids' school is open and able to stay open. and if they're not open, how they can go to work if they have a job and still take care of their kids. they see the people at the very top doing better than they ever have, while they're left to wonder, who's looking out for me? that's donald trump's presidency. 215,000 dead because of covid. experts say we're likely to lose another 200,000 people in the next few months unless we take some serious action, and he doesn't know what he's doing.

all because this president's only worried about one thing, the stock market. he refuses to follow the science. it's estimated if we just wore these masks nationally, we'd save over 100,000 lives between now and the end of the year. this president knew back in janua january, he was briefed in detail by the intelligence community, how extremely dangerous this covid virus was, how communicable the disease was. he went in a taped interview with bob woodward, a leading journalist, it's been played, telling woodward he knew how dangerous the disease was but did nothing. ask yourself, why didn't he tell us? why didn't he warn us? he said nothing. he told woodward that he didn't want to panic the american people. that's why he said nothing. we don't panic. america doesn't panic.

but trump panicked. his reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis has been unconscionable. the longer donald trump is president, the more reckless he seems to get. dr. fauci, the most respected doc on this issue in the world -- in the country, he told the president, you know, the president's announcement of his pick for the supreme court in the rose garden, he referred to that as a super spreader. all those people that caught the disease, how is he responding? well, guess what, he's now running an ad you probably saw, a national ad quoting dr. fauci out of context way back in march, referring to public health officials, dr. fauci said i can't imagine that anybody could be doing more, end of quote. in the recent ad that's going out nationally, trump ad quotes dr. fauci as saying that about him, the president.

trump and his campaign deliberately lied, making it sound like fauci was talking about trump. fauci went on the public air when the ad came out saying three days ago i did not give permission for that quote. he wasn't referring to the president. and even after that, fauci said he didn't say that. the president and the campaign, even after fauci laid this out, the campaign said we're still going to use it because he did say it, even though it wasn't about him. the point i'm trying to make is it was a knowing lie, like we're being told about everything about this covid consequences. as a consequence to his months of overwhelming lying, misleading and irresponsible action on the part of donald trump, how many empty chairs were around your breakfast table this morning? someone you love, someone you cared about, someone you knew, family member or a neighbor,

missing, missing. and why? because of negligence. look, i view this campaign as i've said before and i'll say it again between scranton and park avenue, between toledo and park avenue. all trump can see is from park avenue is wall street. that's why his only metric for american prosperity that he values is the dow jones and the index. like a lot of you, i spent a lot of my time with guys like trump looking down on you. the irish catholic kid in the neighborhood. guys who thought they were better than me because they had a lot of money. guys who inherited everything they ever got and still managed to squander it. i have to admit, i shouldn't have done it but i've been on record so i'll repeat it. i still have a little bit of chip on my shoulder about guys like him.

i read some stories after i got the nomination that, quote, if biden gets elected, he'll be the first non-ivy league school graduate to get elected i think in 80 or 90 years. guys, have a seat, man. you know what, like some state school guy, i went to the university of delaware. i was proud of it. hard to get there, hard to get through in terms of money. but folks, since when can someone who went to a state university not be qualified to be president? folks, i know what it takes to be president. i sat next to a man for eight years watching and participating. my mom taught me that what you're probably taught by your parents too. she'd say, joey, nobody is better than you. but everybody is your equal. i don't measure people based on the size of their bank account.

i don't respect people based on whether they own a mansion. i don't judge them whether -- based on whether they belong to a country club. you and i measure people by the strength of their their courage. my mom used to say the greatest gift of all, the greatest virtue is courage. you're redeemed by your courage. that's what she would say, redeemed by your loyalty. honesty, loyalty, things bigger than yourself. those are with the neighborhoods we were raised in. it's all about family, decency, honor, opportunity. these are the values i learned growing up in scranton, and my guess is you learned them where you grew up. the people in scranton didn't have money in stocks. in our house growing up, every penny my dad went to paying bills, keeping the lights on, food on the table.

every penny our friends in scranton made went to paying the bills and taking care of their families as well. we looked out for our neighbors. that's why i have a different measure by which i judge the health of america's economy. i see hard-working women and men just trying to earn an honest living to take care of their families. just want an even shot. they're just asking for a fair thought. given a shot, the american people would never, ever, ever let their country down. never. the other expression my dad had, when you see the adduce of power, there's only one way to respond. that is with power. the only power we have to take on corporate america is union power. that's the only power. i just think back to 2008 when

barack and i were elected, and we had the worst depression in the country. we needed to save our country from going into a depression. we did it with less than 0.2% of waste or fraud. we did it with substantial assistance to address the economic pain, to recover aree build. we made sure to keep teachers, firefighters, cops, public nurses on the job. people are being laid off now, because you don't have the local money to do it. they didn't have to be fired because of lack of money. that was when the federal government stepped up, and started the longest sustained economic recovery in american history that this guy inherited and then squandered again. but you know what mitch mcconnell said recently about helping the states and the cities. he said, quote, let them go bankrupt.

i heard that before, you heard it too. republicans said the same thing about the auto industry. like i said, i come from an automobile state and an automobile man. the auto industry supported one in eight ohioans, it was on the brink, it was more than ten years ago, but you remember like it was yesterday. it was on the brink. barack and i bet on you, the american worker. we argued the american worker was the finest worker in the world. management screwed it up. you didn't. by the way it all got paid back, but guess who made the greatest sacrifices? all of you. you made the sacrifices. so over the many objections -- >> do you solemnly swear the testimony you're being to give is the truth, the whole truth,

nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. welcome to the committee, to your family, all doing a great job over there. the floor is yours, judge. >> chairman, ranking member, members of the committee, i'm honored and humbled to appear before you as a nominee for associate justice of the supreme court. i thank the president for entrusting me with this profound responsibility, as well as for the graciousness he and the first lady have shown my family throughout this process. i thank senator young for introducing me, as he did at my hearing to serve on the 7th circuit. i else thank senator braun for his support. while she could not be with us

via the satellite, i am also grateful to former dean patty o'hara of the know notre dame. i thank the members of this committee and your other colleagues in the senate who have taken the time to meet with me since my nomination it's been a privilege to meet you. as i have said, umenyiora used to be in a group of nine. nothing is more important to me than my family. my husband and i have been married for 21 years. he's been a selfless and wonderful partner every step of the way. i once asked my sister, why do you think marriage is hard? people are always saying that. i think it's easy. she looked at me and sell, well,

maybe you should ask jessie if he agrees with that. i decided not to take her advice, because i know i am far luckier in love than i deserve. jessie and i are parents to seven wonderful children. our oldest daughter, emma, is a sophomore in college, who just might follow her parents into a career in the law. next is vivian, who came to us from haiti. when vivian arrived, she was so weak we were told she might never talk or walk normally, but now she -- i assure you she has no trouble talking. tess is 16. while she shares her parents' love for the liberal arts, she seems to have a math gene that has skipped her parents' gen race. john-peter, and still jelly describes the shock when he got

on the the plane in wintertime chicago. j.p. assumed a happy-go-lucky attitude that is still his signature trait. liam is smart, strong and kind. to our delight, he still loves watching movies with mom and dad. 10-year-old juliet is already pursuing her goal of becoming an author by writing multiple essays and short stories, one she recently submitted to publication. our youngest benjamin is at home with friends. he has down syndrome and is the unanimous favorite. he was watching, i'm told, and wall calling out the names when he saw his siblings. my own family is here. carey, megan, eileen, amanda, megan and michael are my oldest and dearest friends. i am so grateful they are with

me now. my parents are watching from a new orleans home. more important, my parents modeled for me and my six siblings a life of service, principle, faith and love. i remember preparing for a grade school spelling bee against a boy in my class. to boost my confidence, my dad saying, anything boys can do, girls can do better at least as i remember it, i spelled my way to victory. i received similar encouragement from the devoted teachers at st. mary's dominican, my all-girls high school in new orleans. when i went to college, it never occurred to me anyone would consider girls less capable than boys. my freshman year i took a literature class filled with upper classmen english majors. when i did my first

presentation, i feared i had failed, but my professor took the time to talk to me. she filled me with confidence about how well i had done. she became a mentor. when i graduated with a degree in english, she gave me truman could pote's collective works as a gift. though i considered graduate studies in english, i decided my passion for words was better suited to decipher statutes than novels. i was fortunate to have wonderful legal mentors, in particular the judges for whom i cooked. the legendary judge lawrence silverman gave me my first job in the law. he continue to say teach me today. he was by my side during my 7th circuit hearing. he swore me in at my investiture and is cheering me on from his living room. i also clerked for justice scalia. like many law students, i felt like i knew the justice before i

ever met him, because i had read so many of his colorful, accessible opinions. moran that the sty-- more than style, it was his judicial philosophy that was straightforward. a judge must apply the law as it is written, not as she wishes it were. sometimes that approach meant reaching results he did not like, but as he put it in one of his best-known opinions, that is what it means to say we have a government of laws, and not of men. justice scalia was devoted to his family, and fearless criticism. as i embarked on my own legal career, i resolved to maintain that same perspective.