first conversation with legal scholar lisa murray and adam wakeman. then we pivot to conversation with comedian about her grammy nominated comedy album. all of that in just a moment. ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >> unpack these roller coaster actions by the trump administration in his first few weeks that face constitutional challenges now and look at legal leanings of this u.s. supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. this has been so -- >> days ago. >> i don't know how to keep up with all that happened legally over the last few days. let me start with the nomination. >> i said it was going to be gorsuch. >> it wasn't a huge surprise. he was on the list of people who he was considering. we know that list was prepared for donald trump by the federal society and other conservative organizations. they weren't going to let him vary from that list too easily. >> as i recall we last met you did call this and you were a bit concerned about what this might mean. >> i was concerned. i think this is a very confi

first conversation with legal scholar lisa murray and adam wakeman. then we pivot to conversation with comedian about her grammy nominated comedy album. all of that in just a moment. ♪

murray, twoator republicans have said they will not vote for it betsy devos. that is lisaurkowski and susan collins of maine. if that total holds, if another republican does not join the democrats, it will be a 50-50 tie and then the vice president will be called in to break that tie vote. he would probably vote for the residents nominee for the secretary of education. nominee the president's for the secretary of education -- for the president's nominee for the secretary of education. -- vice president has passed one per year according to data from the secretary of senate. the last tybalt was on march 8 -- the last tie vote on march 8, 2008. president is in washington expected to be on capitol hill today to break that tie vote, if and when it does happen. we are talking about it this morning. we want to get your thoughts. talkathon against betsy devos. stewart is up first. an independent. caller: i think it is great that the democrats are doing what they are doing. that is a representation of free speech. i would like to direct attention to concerns about title ix. .hat is

lisa murkowski and susan collins. on the house, senate democratic side, patty murray washington was first elected in 1992 will be the democratsnumber three leader. this dynamic in terms of the proportion of women in each party in congress has been shifting since the 1980s. for republicans the percentage of women has remained remarkably constant but for democrats in general it's got up with a slight downtick in this election. among democrats that women's caucus is more racially diverse than ever in the 115th congress. women of color are not better represented than ever with a record-setting 38 women of color, 35 democrats and three republicans serving in the 115th congress. of the 14 nonincumbent women elected, nine are women of color. the number of women of color in the center has quadrupled to four. the first asian-american women senate in 2012 will be joined by kathryn cortez masto of nevada, the first latina center in the u.s., and pamela harris of california, the first black woman to serve and you senate in your education and tammy duckworth of the lord will be the first time an american senator. one more note on women in