nor tillis: me either. congratulations to your husband who has a impressive medical list of accomplishments he should be proud of and i'm sure you are, too, and thank to you your family and public servants serving in law enforcement, educating our children, you're a role model family. i do want to go back, this morning i ended up turning to a channel i never watch just to see what was being said about the proceedings. i thought it was interesting they were ridiculing some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle for bringing up the behavior of past supreme court hearings. this is really the appropriate venue to do it. i guess we can talk about it when we're reviewing intellectual property or something else but context churlly this is the time to do that and we all have to agree the behavior in the kavanaugh hearing was not appropriate and hope we never get back to it and hopefully we can agree many of the positions our colleagues took on the other side of the aisle with justice barrett was abhorrent and n

>> thank you, senator tillis. dr. rauch, if i could just start with you. you testified in your written testimony that since 2001 over 4 million now-veterans as well as dod civilians and contractors deployed in the southwest asia theater of operations. how many of these individuals would have been exposed to airborne has arldz -- hazards including from burn pits, do you know? in that time frame. >> well, i can't imagine that that -- all of them should have been exposed to some types of airborne hazards. if they were deployed in various base camps and environments -- because southwest asia, just the military operational environmenn pits, everything, everything else to include sandstorms create a lot of potential for airborne hazards. and if you're there, you're exposed to it. >> what is dod's estimate for the number of individuals who would qualify for the presumption of service-related connection given how many individuals were exposed and so son? -- so on? >> i've got to take that for the for the record. i'll get you as much detail as i can, but i can't gi

tillis: i was there. judge jackson: what was happening at the beginning and the prisons, which was part of the criminal justice system that as judges, we were involved in, -- sen. tillis: i tracked it, i don't want to go over, let me just give you a little bit more context. i have actually written letters to the department of justice encouraging the release of nonviolent offenders in north carolina at a federal correctional facility. i have also supported early release programs, i voted and supported the first step act. i, as speaker of the house, was the first speaker and probably two decades, that actually did the justice reinvestment act early release of nonviolent prisoners. but how can i not read this to say that perhaps they should be released irrespective of the crime for which they have been charged? judge jackson: senator, if you read two more sentences down, that is precisely what i focus on. this is a case united states versus wiggins where i was setting up my analysis as to why i would not be

senator holly. >> thank you senator tillis.tified in your written testimony that since 2001 over 4 million now veterans as well as dod civilians in dod contractors deployed in theaters of operations. how many m of these were exposed to environmental the toxins including burn pits? do you know? >> i can imagine, all of them should than exposed to some type of airborne hazards if they were deployed in various days camps. southwest asia just the military operation in the vehicles burn pits, everything else to include ofdstorms could create a lot potential for airborne hazards and if you were there you are exposed to it. >> what is dod's estimate for the number of individuals that would qualify her for the service related connection given how many individuals were exposed? >> i will have to take that for the i t record. i will get to as much detail as i can do vacant give you that off the top of my head c senato. >> that's fine. we will take it for the record could go was the practice of burn pits in other theaters during this peri

i want to echo the sentiments expressed by senator tillis. you have conducted these hearings with extraordinary poise, strength, grace under pressure. you have had a lot of poison thrown at you and you have responded with substance and truth. it has shown through not just in this room, but across the country and around the world. i have two substantive questions regarding the first amendment. one question, as i noted i wanted to address regarding war powers, and i will yield to the remainder of my time to the chair. we discussed earlier this morning, judge, the first amendment with respect to speech , expression and assembly. i briefly want to touch on the free exercise of religion. my great grandparents came to this country fleeing anti-semi'tis him -- anti-semitism in eastern europe. many first american stories involved flight from persecution. gleefully -- briefly, i would ask you to touch upon the constitutional roots and significance in our government of the first amendment and the free exercise of religion. judge jackson: as you mention

thank you for having me today. >> ranking member tillis. member tellis for today's hearing for this opportunity to testify. some members of congress believe that the health risks are based on anecdotal evidence, we have data today that shows or otherwise those who bravely defended our country exposed to toxic chemicals. my story begins with my husband retired captain what the story state trooper 14 years before being medically retired through the military. and will expose within the operation iraqi freedom and was with the toxic plume of black smoke with a land and ate and slept returning home to face the healthcare system to afraid to understand that on cold war injury resulting in termination of the law enforcement career. he attempted to end his life in 2016 sense returning he had 400 medical visits he was finally diagnosed with autoimmune disease toxic brain injury following a lung biopsy at vanderbilt. the dod refused to recognize or diagnose environmental injuries often misdiagnosing them as psychosomatic are dismissing them as compen

senator tom tillis was looking forward to that moment. the senate armed services commitsty.for joining us. it's likely that president zelensky will make his pitch for some air support. something that goes beyond what we are doing now. do you think he should have it? >> well, i agree with ambassador taylor. there's a lot of things that we can do. we signed on to a letter to provide them with additional fighters, migs, that their ukraine pilots can fly. i believe we need to send a message to putin that we're all of the above. with respect to the no fly zone, if it gets more difficult because once you establish a no fly zone, you have to manage it. managing it could end up being a direct conflict between those that are enforcing the no fly zone and russia. that could be a dangerous situation. i want to make the situation dangerous for putin though. missile defense, additional drones, potentially planes that ukraine pilots can add to their existing fleet of mig jets make sense to me. the more that we put on the table, the more that putin has to wonder whether or not this is a wa

senators thom tillis and jon ossoff will start the day with 30-minute rounds of questioning. after that, all 22 centers -- all 22 senators will have a chance to ask follow-up questions, each having 20 minutes, live coverage beginning at 9:00 a.m. 830 or in c-span. find out more about judge jackson and pass confirmation hearings in our video library. we have the hearings of ronald reagan's nomination of william rehnquist and president donald trump's nomination of amy coney barrett and 2020, pulled together for easy viewing at c-span.org and on our free video app, c-span now. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government we are funded by these television companies and more, including mediacom. >> the world changed in a minute and media, was ready -- meciacom was ready. we never slowed down. schools and businesses when virtual and we powered a new reality. because we mediacom are built to give you -- >> giving you a-rosita to democracy. >> judge ketanji brown jackson, president biden's nominee to the supreme court comes up for her second day of confirmation hearings before t

really quickly because it looks like he's about to gavel in, dick durbin. >> thom tillis who will speak first and lindsey graham despite venting his spleen is in play. he has voted for more joe biden judicial nominees than any republican on this panel. he's upset his preferred candidate is not this nominee, but i think he's actually in play. >> let's listen in, day two of questioning for ketanji brown jackson. >> each senator will be allowed 20 minutes to ask questions if they wish but the chair is more than anxious to entertain efforts to yield back your time. i'm sure that the witness, judge jackson, would appreciate it as much as all of us in that respect. i'm going to make an opening statement. senator grassley is going to do the same, and then we will proceed with the questions by the two senators. first i would say, judge jackson, that i thought that president biden got it right yesterday. he tuned in and watched the proceedings and said you showed both grace and dignity. i've used the phrase grace under pressure, and it's been referred to by many people. this is a tough assignmen

late last week on the ground tillis' people said he would not endorse in this race.ican party in north carolina had a hands off stance on cawthorn. this obviously is a bridge too far not only with kevin mccarthy but in the state republican establishment. >> we have seen some conspiracy theorys in this kind of rhetoric i guess you could call it from republicans do appeal to a portion of the republican base nationally. do you get the sense he might be over the skis with an ambition to keep and get support in the district? >> yeah. i think that's part of it. the redistricting of congressal districts and seats has gone through a labored process in north carolina. he said he would run close to charlotte. speculation was to represent a district that was closer to the major media market in charlotte and the house map was redrawn and then he skipped back to his home district and it angered a certain number of people. it seemed to be -- reinforced the sense that he abandoned the people of western north carolina. during his tenure he hasn't been that attentive to constituents

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porter. >> thank you for having us here, senator gillibrand and senator tillis. appreciate everything you're doing on in this issue. like to introduce my daughter, 13-year-old daughter, elizabeth porter, she's playing hooky from school today, so hopefully she gets something out of this. [laughter] i also, on a more serious note, i want to take this opportunity to say that my thoughts and prayers are with dr. kate hendricks thomas, advocate on this issue. she's going through a very particularly tough time with regard to her burn pit-related illness. so i'm here not only as an iav advocate, but as one who was exposed to a variety of sox -- toxins when deployed. before i went down range, id had completely healthy lungings. shortly after i arrived in kabul, 2010, my lungs had a severe reaction and became infected. it was rolled -- it was controlled with medication, but i was diagnosed with asthma as soon as i got back home a year later. i have to still take the medications to keep my breathing under -- to keep breathing. exposure to burn pits used by the military to

>> thom tillis did in fact today endorse the challenger. kind of thing that some congressmen found they were getting questions about. what's this about you guys all participating -- >> are you doing key bumps? >> and that, i guess, annoyed them. but it is sort of an amazing thing that this is the final straw for cawthorne not calling zelenskyy a thug. >> this is about them, that's why. they're getting questions from their constituents. do you participate in orgies and do cocaine? they went into kevin mccarthy, the minority leader, and said you've got to deal with this. but if paul gosar in an animated cartoon threatens the life of a democratic congresswoman. >> when you talk to your sources on the hill, how do they explain this very selective outrage? first of all, i didn't know what a key bump was. it's apparently doing cocaine on a key. so thank you for congresswoman cawthorne for educating me as to that. what are people saying on the hill? >> what democrats are saying is it just shows where the republican party is right now, which is tha

and you said maybe tom tillis might be a republican vote. maybe even lindsey graham. he's coming up next, i think. we haven't heard from graham yet. but duread anything into tillis's comment. >> about whether ketanji brown jackson could get over 50 votes but even some republicans? >> the question was about her allies being in favor of adding justices to the court. he wanted her to come out and say she was opposed to that. but she said she is not weighing into that. she sees that as a political issue. there are two votes that are going to matter. right? there's the vote on the committee itself. to move her onto the floor. and looking for republican votes in the committee is pretty tough sweating now. we saw a few moments ago, john cornin and lindsey graham huddled. they're the whoa voted to move it to the floor in her current role. they have approved to vote for her in the current. lindsey graham also voted for her confirmation. cornin for some relationship thought she was worthy of the committee but not on the floor. on the floor she is likely to have at least one vot

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senator hawley. >> thank you, senator tillis.uldus start with you, you testified in your written testimony 2001, over 4 million now veterans dod civilians and contractors deployed in the southwest theater operations, how many individuals would happen exposed to airborne t hazards including toxic exposure from burn pit in that team frame? >> i can't imagine that -- all of them should have been exposed to some kind of airborne hazard they were deployed in various camps and environment, southwest asia -- the military operational environment, vehicles, burn pits, everything else including sandstorms create potential for airborne hazards. if you are there, you are exposed to it. >> what is dod's estimate for individuals who qualify for the service related connection even how many individuals were exposed? >> i got to take that for the record, i'llr get you as much detail as i can but i can't get to that at the top of my head. >> that's finee, take it for the record and i look forward to your answer. what is the practice of burn pit an

. >> republican senator thom tillis, who is unlikely to vote for judge jackson, conceded she is qualified to sit on the supreme court. the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on judge jackson's nomination april 4. >>> as the approach to fighting the pandemic ships, so has the way people are getting tested for covid-19. andria borba report san francisco is bringing testing to the people who need it most. >> reporter: covid-19 cases continue to drop, the days of mass testing sites have come to a close. in the place, this, drop in mobile testing bands deployed in san francisco. >> we want to be able to scale back if we see cases go up or down and we can move from month to month based on real time data. >> reporter: two vans operated by dph will be deployed from neighborhood to neighborhood monthly. >> the great thing about the mobile testing strategy is we are going to be able to reach those communities we know have higher positivity rate. >> reporter: dispatched to communities disproportionately impacted by covid-19 including the bay view commission, soma, and the tenderloin. if

tillis: you think just looking certain sectors in the eye and saying cut cost is a viable option given where we are with inflationary pressures? chair powell: i think businesses are always minimizing cost. if we are talking about the president's speech -- sen. tillis: there is a general consensus that any business that is not trying to cut costs so they can pay their employees more are not competent business people.

to be a difficult vote for some republicans. >> democratic votes in the process, flagging senator tillise support. there and gop colleagues were focused on other things, and they grilg grilled judge jackson on several rulings on child corn child pornographer cases. and how do you think this line of questioning played out yesterday, and how might it affect how the full senate views the nominee? >> look, the underlying allegation behind those lines of questioning to be clear focused on a handful of sentencing decisions over her years as a judge, and the hundreds of cases in which she has ruled, the underlying allegation is that she was lenient, and she was soft on trime. crime and that is one of the republican messages going into this midterm election the fact it's a midterm election year and absolutely expect to hear some of those messages not even related specifically to judge jackson, but more broadly as attack lines along democrats. it is -- i think it was revealing about a lot of the senators that, that was where the questions ended up focusing. in many cases coming back to those line

thank, you mister chairman. >> senator tillis? do you want to defer to him? senator cruz. >> thank, you mister chairman. over the last several years, we have seen countless democrats across the country embracing the movement to defund or abolish the police. we have seen democrats supporting district attorney's funding significant in part by george soros who refused to prosecute violent crime. who released violent criminals into our communities, and the consequence of these extreme policies is predictable. when they began demonizing cops, when the began advocating for defunding and abolishing the police. all of us who had worked in law enforcement said the result is going to be skyrocketing crime. tragically, that is precisely the result we've seen. nationwide, homicides increased 30% from 2019 to 2020. 27 major u.s. cities experienced a 44% increase in homicides since 2019. homicides increased in 44 of the seven major cities from 2020 to 2021 and over a dozen cities set new homicide records in 2021. the topic of this hearing, carjacking, has been particularly

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experience as a federal public defender today we get ready for round three where senators ossoff and tillis will kick things off. >> all right, brie, thank you for filling us in on what we can expect >>> we want to turn now to nbc meteorologist bill karins tracking that extreme weather d morning. let's review what happened in new orleans first. as the sun was setting, the line of storms was approaching. at around 6:00 p.m. we knew the line would go through around 7, 7:30, the first tornado warning was issued for the storm that eventually hit the new orleans area at 7:00 p.m now, that storm didn't actually produce a tornado until a little bit later. that one at 7:19, the first tornado reported five minutes after that so there wasn't a lot of lead time for the areas, for the residents there, but there was some and the first tornado was reported around terry town, and we've seen all the damage pictures around arabi. and in all it wasn't just new orleans either we had 26 reports of tornados yesterday. we have a tornado watch. and still a couple other strong storms heading towards panama city, a

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senator tillis please pray. >> thank you gentlemen for being here. general townsend, prior administration reduced nearly all of the 700 troops we had in somalia now you are commuting for counterterrorism. what are we doing to increase effectiveness and reduce risk? >> senator, in my view we are marching in place at best we may be backsliding and security in simile the security situation. that is for a number of reasons it's also a function of inactivity by somali, by the partners. that also factor in. i just think what we are doing is not providing sufficient pressure. the best we can do is maintain a secure area that we return to we cannot get at the al-shibaab problem set. >> general mckenzie, ready similar challenge with afghanistan. we have not seen any strikes since our withdrawal lastin yea. i expect some of that is information gathering some of the logistical challenges. what are we doing there to overcome the massive reduction in rct efforts in afghanistan? and if you could give me an update on how isis and al qaeda are doing rebuilding their

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tillis: you do not have to go to a great level of detail. i appreciate it. do you have one of those cards? i'm going to get it on the way out. sen. durbin: thanks. senator durbin has gone to vote. as is customary, one of the members of the committee takes its place. >> i am in the chair now. i am very pleased to have my round of questioning while i am taking the chair first senator durbin. let me ask, you have an starting harry career yourself as a trailblazer, the first -- you have a extraordinary career yourself, as a trailblazer. a number of us on this panel have talked about the legitimacy crisis that the supreme court faces. maybe the result of self inflicted wounds, maybe where we live. but justice breyer very thoughtful, deliberate methodical approach as without line by judge jackson as well seems to be one of the hallmarks of his ability to bring to bring the court together and overcome divides and disagreements. which in my view is important at this point in the courts history, would you agree? >> i went. i think it comes from its deliberative natur

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chair. >> thank you, senator tillis.enator kelly, please. >> thank you, general townsend for being here and general mckenzie congratulations on your upcoming retirement on the 1st of april. general townsend, i want to follow up on a question that senator tillis and tuberville asked, specifically about the wagner group. i know, you know, that you share this committee's concern about the russian illegal invasion of ukraine and our allies have come together to cut off putin's support around the world and the influence that he has and i'm really glad we've taken these strong measures necessary, we need to do more. but we also need to continue to monitor russian-backed activity around the world. specifically with regards to the wagner group in africa, and i find this increasing presence disturbing and affects our strategic goals in the area. general, specifically, how do you see the wagner group's activity impacting our efforts to, one, suppress violent extremist groups, and two, support a transition to democratic governance

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one of them, thom tillis, questioned this nominee earlier.red about the empathy she brings to sentenced defe defendants. listen. >> if i take a look at some of the responses to my colleagues' questions and your statements to some of the defendants, it seems as though you're a very kind person and that there is at least a level of empathy that enters into your treatment of a defendant that some could view as a -- maybe beyond what some of us would be comfortable with with respect to administering justice. >> thank you for letting me clarify. the statements that i made about my practices as a trial judge, which i'm no longer a trial judge, were intended to explain how trial judges operate and how they impose sentences within the framework that congress has provided. nobody said to them, do you understand that there are children who will never have normal lives because you sold crack to their parents, and now they're in a vortex of addiction? do you understand that, mr. defendant? i was the one in my sentencing practices who explained those thin

i'm thankful to marco rubio and tom tillis who helped to bring this to fruition.we didn't introduce the bill only to have the biden administration begin working with maduro's thugs and bolster the corrupt venezuela industry. no one wants object connected to maduro's genocide. i hope that the entire senate will support the fight for freedom and the people of venezuela. i yield the floor. gaining financial independence and find a job. remaining on a path to recovery a success story. it does not just help save lives, it gives them the power to rebuild their own lives. also providing funding for educational programming and has done it so well. i want to thank the senators for the partnership and tireless leadership for getting this bill addressed introduced and across the finish line. i want to thank their staff, her former chief counsel, senator legislative director and general counsel and dietrich legislative assistant. thanks to stephanie, nicole and chasity. i want to thank the other members of the committee jurisdiction and their staff along with ranking member i

we saw senators tillis, graphically, graham going on and on. amy coney barrett is a mother.opted to nine children. have two more. john cornyn had her hold up her blank page of notes. >> jesse: a nice moment. >> jessica: why is it a nice moment question when you thought it was cool she doesn't have to take notes? that should make you more qualified to be on the supreme court? >> jesse: she knows what a woman is. everyone does this. the democrats. they are nasty with the republican nominees. vice versa. the media act like this is the first hearing we've ever had. >> judge jeanine: it doesn't take much to say that the way this judge is being questioned is so much more polite than what they did to amy coney barrett and what they did to brett kavanaugh. it was a circus. let's admit it. everybody said they didn't wanted to be like that. the republicans have been kind enough to make sure it isn't. but you know what, the whole point of the questioning is to get an idea of who this georges. i judge that refuses to identify her judicial philosophy. we go through the truth finding. we

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senate, i see senator tillis here, he and i have worked together on ip issues, senator cornyn and i on senator grassley and on the freedom of information issues. and usually in the senate, at least, if you work across the ideological spectrum you get better results. how would you describe your skeps on building cases relating to intellectual property, that are less likely to break along traditional ideological lines? >> thank you, senator. one of the things that i was able to do when i worked on the sentencing commission was work with people that had very different perspectives than i did about the jils system and come to consensus. it's very important, as you've said, to try to find common ground, skbris breyer was such a wonderful model for that kind of ability as a supreme court justice. something i learned from him and something that i tried to model on my work in the commission, that i tried to model in my work as an appellate judge, and i would model or do if i were confirmed to the supreme court. >> thank you senator leahy. now to senator graham. >> thank you, judge. again, cong

i mean, who attacks a nuclear facility with tanks and all tillie? it's one thing of this was a cold lands, or a wind farm, but this is a nuclear reactor. a catastrophe in this facility could lead to an unprecedented environmental catastrophe that would affect not just ukraine, but large parts of europe, including russia. >> you heard the statement from secretary granholm, what's and western countries try to do to keep the spawn safe? >> it's good that we are monitoring this, and then equivalency team had a good step, but that's not an intervention. that's not a special obscene the concerned and, especially to a combat situation. right now, all we can do is ringing the alarm bells, and try to get putin to rein in his military. my fear is that it would be ineffective. this kind of terror seems to be his point. in my view, this was a terrorist attack on a nuclear plant. it just so happened that the terrorists are wearing russian army uniforms. >> nuclear security analyst, and distinguished fellow, thank you for being with us. i want to bring into the c

then we saw senator tillis came out, he's on the senate judiciary committee, today he said he will not. >> there is not a brimming sense of bipartisanship in the senate. you are seeing in small places where it really matters, a willingness to cross the line. in this case for her nomination, in the case potentially of covid funding, in the case of trying to move forward on some sanctions for russia and ukraine, a small group of republican senators in the center, whatever that means, who are willing to join together and this is an important example. >> a small group. we'll see if it gets bigger. a very busy week for the january 6th committee. tomorrow they will interview jared kushner, the former president's son-in-law. they've been sorting through the text messages between ginni thomas, wyche of clarence thomas, and mark meadows and looking to the justice department for action after a judge involved in a related case said it's more likely than not that donald trump committed a crime. the committee recommended the former white house aides be held in contempt and revisited the president's

he's part of the 30-minute round of questioning that is going to be followed by senator thom tillis ofnd then all 22 senators will have the opportunity to ask questions for about 20 minutes or so, and try to get through their round of questioning, expected to go around through the course up until about 5:00 or 6:00 this evening. and at that point then it is going to go into a closed session in which they look at her fbi background check, make sure there are no red flags there, and then move forward. and what that means is essentially try to push ahead to that committee vote, which is going to happen in the days ahead. has not been officially scheduled yet by the chairman of the judiciary committee, but that's expected to happen sometime soon. and then it will move on to the senate floor in which just 50 members are needed to advance this nomination, kamala harris the vice president can break a tie breaking vote on the senate floor and at the moment, democrats are confident that they can keep all 50 of their members in line, even despite the very contentious back and forth among her and

senator tillis will be paired tomorrow with senator allsop for the morning show. >> i felt like we should just finish tonight. >> we are trying to. >> i totally appreciate that. >> you asked it to be on the program tonight and we will put you on it. >> mr. chairman, before we start this questioning, right before the break, i asked the chairman -- whether or not the democrats had access to judge jackson's judicial record. you did not answer me at the time. each of the republicans was handed this piece of paper. this is a charter probation recommendation. we were just told the white house gave it to democrats. mr. chairman, how would you have reacted if the white house shared digital -- judicial? christ your own counsel decided -- >> that is the disclosure to the whole committee. in this case, is there anything else democrats have access to that you have not shared with republicans on this committee? the fact that they have not raises the incident. >> you always draw your own inferences and i know where most of them had. christ is there anything else that democrats have been republicans do

thom tillis, john cornyn, both said there was an openness but that they would put themselves in the no day, it doesn't matter. the process as it goes forward from this point is on monday they will do their first meeting about this because of committee rules, then a week between that day and the following monday when they will actually vote ketanji brown jackson out of committee. should that be a tie, because right now you have 11 democrats and 11 republicans on this 22-person, judiciary committee, if that's a tie, the full senate can vote her out of committee and then get her to that full senate vote process where, again, the split works in democrats' favor. in theory all they need are all 50 democrats to get behind this nominee and kamala harris will break the tie. that doesn't mean that the white house and democrats don't want republican support, and there are some republicans who aren't on this committee who could still be yes's, and as i talked with chairman dick durbin yesterday and throughout the week, he continues repeating the phrase "hope springs eternal." we'll have to wait a

warrant to get these because they won't have to rely on the good graces of mark meadows or johnny tillis just go get them. >> that justice department opens up a whole other door, for sure. jennifer, the bottom line, as we have to be honest about, this clarence thomas isn't going to step down. that's just not going to happen. there are not enough votes in the senate to impeach him. so what is this about? is this more sizzle than steak? >> i think there are two parts to this. one, i want your viewers to understand how crazy this is. all the notary from the bamboo fibers to the kraken, this woman's college educated, she's a graduate of law school, she's the wife of a justice of the united states supreme court, and she believes the stuff? this shows you the degree to which the republican party has marinated in this toxic soup of crazy for all of these years. and if you think the problem is just some an educated person out there in the heartland, no. it goes all the way up to the top of the elites, the supposed elites, of the republican party. i think, first of all, it's a political statement