said that he would not hold hearings or vote on president former president obama's choice in america garland to be on the supreme court mcconnell said he wasn't going to hold hearings on it he was going to wait until the next election so he would be basically going against his own words if he decided to go ahead and slam through a vote over confirmation hearings even this close it would be really hard to get a nominee through but still possible ok taylor millard thanks so much for that. and we turn out it's highland where pro-democracy protesters are gathering in large numbers to demand the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy tens of thousands are expected to turn out for a weekend of rallies maybe the biggest protest since the 2014 coup when now prime minister. took power the student demonstrations are calling for democratic reforms and changes in tough laws against criticizing the royal house. plan for sunday the authorities have warned against holding them amid fears that the coronavirus could spread rapidly among demonstrators and for more on all this let's cross ove

said that he would not hold hearings or vote on president former president obama's choice in america garland to be on the supreme court mcconnell said he wasn't going to hold hearings on it he was going to wait until the next election show he would be basically going against his own words if he decided to go ahead and slam through a vote over confirmation hearings even this close it would be really hard to get a nominee through but still possible ok taylor millard thanks so much for that thank you. many countries in europe are facing a surge in corona virus infections leading to new restrictions across the continent spain was one of the hardest hit countries during the 1st wave of the 10 demick and the situation has been deteriorating again in recent weeks but want to avoid a repeat of the harsh nationwide lockdown ordered march and are opting for more localized measures instead. rapidly rising infections in madrid have sent the spanish capital into a partial 2nd looked at the areas most affected by the new restrictions of the densely populated low income neighborhoods in the sight of the ci

said that he would not hold hearings or vote on president former president obama's choice in america garland to be on the supreme court mcconnell said he wasn't going to hold hearings on it he was going to wait until the next election so he would be basically going against his own words if he decided to go ahead and slam through a vote over confirmation hearings even this close it would be really hard to get a nominee through but still possible ok taylor millard thanks so much for that. thousands of pro-democracy protesters are rallying in the streets of thailand's capital bangkok to demand democratic reforms the student led demonstrations are calling for the prime minister's resignation and changes in tough laws against criticizing the monarchy organizers say tens of thousands are expected to march that would make it the biggest protest it's a 2014 who are now prime minister prayuth china and china took power authority as have warned against holding demonstrations against fears because of fears that the corona virus can spread rapidly among participants. and for more on this let's bring in

fight in colorado and chuck grassley leading the committee when it blocked the nomination of america garlandney joins the two gop senators who already said they want to wait until after the election and susan collins and lisa murkowski, it appears mcconnell has the votes he needs. democrats say all options are on the table. they are virtually powerless to shut this process down. the current judiciary chair, lindsey graham is vowing to confirm before election day. >> the nominee is going to be supported by every republican in the judiciary committee and we've got the votes to confirm the judge -- the justice on the floor of the senate before the election and that's what's coming. >> the president's expected to pick by the end of the week. they confirm judge amy coney barrett was at the white house monday and met with president trump. remember what's on the line, a change to obamacare and a legal fight over the election. >>> meantime, the president spreading misinformation on justice ginsberg's dying wish for the new president to replace her. he claims that it's coming from democratic leadersh

from the trump presidency and particularly from the last 2 supreme the supreme court fights over america garland and over the current one to whether they're going to decide that they want to be norm shatters as well and if they get control on are they going to pack the supreme court which is constitutional but not one thing that's been done in in many many decades in fact hundreds of years in well over 100 years and so it would be it would be a real nuclear weapon in the political battles and it would sort of reduce the united states yet further into the partisan miasma that it's in but i think quite a few democrats and certainly the democratic base feels that there are tea in that and they're already fighting that battle they're just losing it and so now they have to they want to do that i think it's not surprising that joe biden is unwilling to commit to that because. it's a little bit it's damaging before the election but he shouldn't be willing to dissuade his base and out at you so there's no way he should answer that question i think he should have answered the question i think he should h

america shows up. regardless of what your political persuasion is, there is a clear way to go to honor of how we set up the traditions of merrick garlandhat they are violated now with all that's at stake, i'm hoping that people will speak out. that's why the supreme court like you are showing with so many americans spontaneously coming out giving me hope that this will be one of those times that even if republicans want to do the wrong right that there will be enough people that have a sense of shame, enough people that have a sense of honor that they will stand up and speak up and prevent them from thrusting the senate further into a sort of an era of delegitization but from yanking and pulling the supreme court down further in the eyes of many americans in terms of being a delegit matt institution. it has been over come by power toll picks. politic. based on the sacrosanct ideals of this nation, ideals of human rights and civil rights. and i'm hoping at this time of her passing, we all can rise to her level of honor and stand upon those principles and show our commitment to them. >> senator corey booker, a member of the senate judici

america shows up. regardless of what your political persuasion is, there is a clear way to go to honor of how we set up the traditions of merrick garlandt they are violated now with all that's at stake, i'm hoping that people will speak out that's why the supreme court like you are showing with so many americans spontaneously coming out giving me hope that this will be one of those times that even if republicans want to do the wrong right that there will be enough people that have a sense of shame, enough people that have a sense of honor that they will stand up and speak up and prevent them from thrusting the senate further into a sort of an era of delegitization but from yanking and pulling the supreme court down further in the eyes of many americans in terms of being a delegit matt institution. based on the sacrosanct ideals of this nation, ideals of human rights and civil rights. and i'm hoping at this time of her passing, we all can rise to her level of honor and stand upon those principles and show our commitment to them >> senator corey booker, a member of the senate judiciary committee. thanks for being here tonight, senator. i

america. >> i was going to give hugh the last word, but ruth, go right ahead. >> the hounds were unleashed when merrick garland did not get even a hearing many, many months before the election and inauguration of a new president. the hounds were unleashed when -- as people were voting, when a justice died, the president having backed and mitch mcconnell having backed denying the incumbent president the ability to fill the scalia seat is rushing through the appointment of and, yes, she's going to be justice barrett. a justice whose -- thank you for plugging the book. this is commenting the takeover for decades to come. the hounds are out and the way democrats respond to the loss/theft of those two seats, i have a hard time and i've written this and it was hard me me to say it. i have a hard time arguing against finding some temporary way to remedy that outcome through what may be a temporary expansion of the size of the court coupled with other institutional changes. this is not one side comes to this with clean hands. there's theft on the part of the republican party of these supreme court seats. >> and, hugh,

america. and if trump is able to appoint this justice after what they did with merrick garland that democrats have to be thinking in more procedurally radical ways, right? adding new members to the court, getting rid of the filibuster. are you thinking along those lines? do you favor those two policies? >> well, i think that we have to think short-term and long-term. plenty of time when we win the election, house, senate and the white house, which we will today, but the election isn't today. and we can't have just a conversation if you want. but we want to have effective political action. we have to not agonize but organize. and that means that we must show to people right now, and they know for themselves because this is their experience, that this move on the part of mitch mcconnell, and i see you said mitch america, no, it's moscow mitch. it's moscow mitch. let's put that on your sign there or at least understand how others refer to him and there is a reason for that. but anyway, keeping it on this, the fact is people don't care about what we're doing in washington. they care about what is

america? this is the fight for that soul, right -- right now. and the ghost of merrick garlandhaunt him. i would think if barack obama wishes he could have found a way to get him into the court. but the democrats have to remember that they got beat on that. and that, mitch mcconnell's the one that beat them. and there has to become a new kind of resolve, here, that democrats are going to have to go to the mat on this. so we are, now, into a new crisis. a crisis of the supreme court. >> does anything matter, anymore? especially, and i have to be honest, on the republican side, when it comes to donald trump and this administration and the folks who are in office? i am talking about the people in office because i have republican friends that do not condone the hypocrisy that's going on now. the just letting donald trump get away with whatever he wants. does anything -- anything mean, anymore, anything anymore? does anyone's word mean anything, in washington, anymore? >> well, the -- the term grotesque hypocrisy that we are seeing out tof this republican party. it used to be and me

to the election then her words were with that merrick garland situation, which was back in march of 2016, as you pointed out. a big day for americas we say goodbye to a legislative icon. a judicial icon. andy mccarthy, thank you very much. appreciate your time. president trump, once again, railing against the universal mail-in ballots. now the justice department is opening an inquiry into one pennsylvania county, because of something that happened there. with the doj found that led to this move. plus, police declaring an unlawful assembly last night in louisville, kentucky. protesters raging over the decision in the breonna taylor case. it will bring peace to that city? i will talk to a former sergeant, next. ♪ veteran homeowners: record low mortgage rates have dropped even lower. at newday, veterans can shortcut the refinance process and save $250 a month. $3000 dollars a year. with the va streamline refi at newday, there's no appraisal, no income verification, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $3000 a year. xkzmh3px[1k h@i$."È[ people are waking up tog with what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine,

mcconnell and lindsey graham and all the people screaming we cannot vote on america arlington because we have got -- merrick garlandecause we have got an election coming up. that was in february. now we are already voting. they scream we have got to fill that seek. those people are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. they know they are hypocrites. if they sit and lie about that, they will lie about anything. precedent that says if you go from the same party, you get to vote. mitch mcconnell made it up. mitch mcconnell is the biggest hypocrite up there. the announcement from the weekend newspapers on the death of ruth bader ginsburg, calling her a pioneer related to gender equality. good morning. what should happen? caller: first of all, let me give my condolences to the ruth bader ginsburg. ofad the good pleasure dreaming at unc. go --to and also speak with them in their chambers. what i know is when they talk with me, and i was just a guy at the college. they say nothing can be done quickly in law. it must be reflected judicially. it should have due diligence. i am not in favor of voting now. this is important beca

garland because it was an election year. that was months before voting happened. biden making the point voting has started in some states in americacannot be unwrung and that they have to wait until after the election in order to take a vote on this. he responded to president trump's call to release a list of people. it could draw partisan attacks on them. he always said he was not going to release that list and he seems to be staying with that as well. in the ent, joe biden going back to a theme. maybe you framed this as instead of being divisive using this as yet another example saying he will be the president of blue states and red states for all america. jessica dean, cnn, philadelphia, pennsylvania. >>> it's no secret which presidential candidate is favored in the irish town of balanda. they're showing him love as he steps into the brexit debate. >> reporter: crisp, clean, freshly hugged. no doubt who they support? >> we did it in a warehouse. >> painting, transporting in the dead of night. >> the reaction is love. >> part of the attraction, biden has dozens of distant cousins here. >> he's really family man. we've meshed, be

their 20s prevailed lived in a more open and just america because of justice ginsburg and i greet with mr. gade i wish the senate had taken up merrick garland in 2016 but the rules changed. mitch mcconnell said we won't do that. i think particularly now when virginians are already voting we ought to wait and let americans have their votes counted before we decide who becomes the next supreme court justice. the next supreme court justice is going to deal with incredibly important things. one of the first issues they will take up two weeks after the election is the viability of the affordable care act, something my opponent has criticized me for predicting the aca needs to same place because the only law that protects people with pre-existing conditions as the aca. 20 million americans have health care, aca. born a thousand virginians with medicaid expansion, aca. that is at stake along with a host of other issues. moderator: thank you senator. doctors gade. gaetz what do you sears a contrast. career politicians wanted it both ways and by the way republican career politicians want to have it both ways and that's a good critique of the 2016 se

america, but we have had some. and there seem to be ever fewer. i think this would be a different conversation if justice garland was sitting on the supreme court. but he is not. and what the republican majority has decided to do is make a bold and overt grab for power. and what people who believe that to be inappropriate and wrong have to do is stand up and speak out today. and do all they can to change this administration and change the senate itself going forward. it's -- i think it's that elemental. i don't think there's a lot of high -- ben would know better, i don't think there's a whole lot of federalist paper parsing going on right now. you know, nobody is thinking about what alexander hamilton would do or is this more madison. none of that is true. this is as hobsian as it gets. this is the war against all, and one thing america was created to do was to try to check those appetites and ambitions. and right now, appetite and ambition is really running amuck. >> so, jon is exactly -- >> those checks, those balances. go ahead, ben. >> i was going to say, jon is exactly right that this is a hobbs hobbsian w

garland. that's when there was months before voting. biden making the argument today as you just said early voting is underway in state ace cross america.t's a bell that cannot be unrung. he went back to the statement that we heard from him friday when he gave his first remarks on the passing of justice ginsburg. he believes the american people should choose the next president and that that president should then choose the next supreme court justice. we'll see, of course, how that all plays out. >> jessica dean, thank you. joining us is chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. i want to get right to what lindsey graham said in 2016. he said i want you to use my words against me. let's play the sound. >> you want you to use my words against me. if there's a republican president and vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president whoever it might be, make that nomination and you can use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right. we're setting a precedent here today. republicans are. in the last year, at least of a lame duck eight year term, i would say it's going to be a f

america will have a very, very difficult time recovering. i would urge my republican colleagu colleagues, who know the hypocrisy of saying to merrick garland, you shouldn't go forward, but to this new nominee, you should. for the sake of this body, but for the sake of the country, for the sake of progress, for the sake of the viability and forward advance of our citizenry to think twice, to think twice. it's going to be a sad day in america and lead to really bad consequences for this country if a solid, hard right majority on this court is able to rule over our lives. i hope, i pray, and will do everything i can to see that that doesn't happen. i yield the floor and thank my colleague for his moment. >> mr. president. >> senator from oregon. >> join my colleagues here on the floor tonight to honor a remarkable legal mind, an incredible american and icon. an inspiration, a wonderful human being, justice ruth bader ginsburg, known to the younger generation as the notorious rbg. rbg was born into a world in which few, if any, opportunities existed for women beyond the role of wife or mother. and she helped build a world in which the doors wer

america will have a very, very difficult time recovering. i would urge my republican colleagues who know the hypocrisy of saying to merrick garland you shouldn't go forward, but to this new nominee you should. for the sake of this body, but for the sake of the country, for the sake of progress, for the sake of the viability and for the advance of our citizenry to think twice, to think twice. it's going to be a sad day in america and lead to really bad consequences for this country if a solid, hard-right majority on this court is able to rule over our lives. i hope, i pray and will do everything i can to see that that doesn't happen. i yield the floor and thank my colleague for his assistance. mr. merkley: mr. president, the senator -- i join my colleagues to honor a great legal mind, an incredible american, an icon, inspiration, a wonderful human being, justice ruth bader ginsburg, known to the younger generation as the notorious r.b.g. r.b.g. was born into a world in which few, if any, opportunities existed for women beyond the role of wife or mother, and she helped build a world in which the doors were opened, the doors of opportunity were f