democratic senator jeff merkley ended the marathon speech on the senate floor against president donald trump's supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. the oregon lawmaker yielded the floor at 10:15 this morning, 15 hours after beginning to highlight the party's opposition of judge gorsuch and listed as the eighth longest speech in senate history. senators are now debating the gorsuch confirmation going back and forth between democrats and republicans. a vote to limit debate is planned for tomorrow with a final vote scheduled for friday.

watch the senate live on c-span2. sunday night on "after words," "blue on blue," an insider's story of good cops watching bad cops. the author, normer chief of npd internal affairs bureau talks about the book with author of "once a cop." >> i spent 41 years in the nypd. i saw acts of courage, integrity. there's always a small number of cops who keeps you up at night. when i was a precinct commander, everyone knew the person or maybe two that you didn't trust and the other officers didn't trust him or her either. so, what i did when i went to internal affairs is i brought the commanding officers on board and we would meet with them on a regular basis and ask them questions like, who in your

command are you a little concerned about? who in your command keeps you up at night? >> watch sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. saturday book tv is live from the 15th annual annapolis book festival in maryland. beginning 10:00 a.m. eastern, the coverage is a panel discussion on income inequality with catherine edum author of qur 2 a day." and stephanie deluca author of "coming of age" and then at 11:00 a.m. eastern, a discussion on criminal justice with the author of "adnan's story." author brian stolar's with the book "grace and justice on death row." at noon eastern, author discussions with mark shriver

author of "pilgrimage." and at 1:30 p.m. eastern, michael hayden, author of "playing to the edge." an american intelligence in the age of terror. and at 3:00 p.m. eastern, thomas, author of "the speed of sound." watch the 15th annual annapolis book festival live saturday 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. senate foreign relations ranking member ben card inand fellow committee member marco rubio with thoughts on former syrian prime minister bashar al assad and the russian government following a chemical attack on the syrian people leaving several dead including children. both called on the trump administration to have and take strong policy actions going forward. their comments with reporters on capitol hill.

>> good morning. it's a pleasure to be here with senator rubio. i think senator rubio's one of the great leaders in the united states congress on human rights. he speaks with moral clarity which is something i believe is extremely important. and he's done that with human rights issues around the world. and yesterday we experienced the latest of an atrocity under the direction of president assad of syria. the use of gas against civilian populations. this is the latest because this is going on for six years. the barrel bombing. the targeting of humanitarian workers. the targeting of hospitals. the use of chemical