both boston and newport, rhode island work significant ports for slavery. there is actually even one slave , the history is a little murky, a ship named the elizabeth in the early 16 80's 1680's. it put into a western new england town, it might have been bristol commanding general, this is a subject getting more attention. one thing that has tended to make it tricky, especially in terms of native slavery, is that colonial records never really referred to native slaves as slaves. they are referred to as servants, or sometimes as the injun of such and such a settlor. and that language has obscured the fact that large numbers of men, women and children were held in bondage. the other think that has been tricky in terms of studying slavery is that native slavery wasn't exactly like chattel slavery much of the time. so not all natives who were held in bondage were necessarily held wasn'te, and it necessarily an inheritable condition. you know, their children would not necessarily also be slaves. and as americans, we are very used to thinking of slavery as africa

what we do know under donald trump, when he assumed office, isis had an area the size of the state of rhode island. isis now has been reduced. we are at peace. we're trying to end the endless wars which america still has troops on the ground in iraq and afghanistan. that's a good thing. i would love to have more international support when it comes to dealing with syria. but he has not been a warmonger. what we have seen... crosstalk ..under biden was bombing in libya. and i still don't know

rhodes in his civilian life was head of new york's memorial hospital. it was the biggest cancer hospital in the world at the time. he sees on the wealth of new information provided by the bari is a breakthrough. it has ambitious plans for memorial hospital now converge with alexander's report and crystallized into a single mission, to exploit the military research into poison gas when finding a chemical that could selectively kill cancercells . armed with the bari report and the results with top-secret yale study which demonstrated for the first time that a regimen of nitrogen mustard and tiny carefully calibrated doses could result in human tumor regression, rhodes went in search offunding to develop the experimental treatment known today as chemotherapy . he portrayed two men that made a fortune during the war, alford p sloan and charles f kettering, the heads of general motors to end out a new institute that would bring together leading scientists to make a concentrated attack on cancer. on tuesday, august 7, the day the world learned an atom bomb ha

we think that can have the potential for a domino effect and also drive rhode island and pennsylvaniathose states could be another $6 billion. romaine: you get the sense that this will be accelerated to a certain extent on the legislative side, even the regulatory side, by some of the potential budget shortfalls. vivien: new york is facing a two-year, $30 billion budget deficit. what we are careful to remind investors of is that if new york is going to use cannabis as a means of filling a budget deficit, the licensing framework will probably be different than what we have seen historically. it does take time for the tax revenues to start flowing in. you have to create the regulatory framework, go through the licensing process. it is quite possible that the cost to acquire a license in a state like new york could be substantially higher. caroline: from what you have seen -- the way in which you have spoken with leaders of some of the publicly traded cannabis companies. at the moment, they don't say competition is each other, competition is the illegal trade of the moment. how quickly d

what did you do to become a rhodes scholar. not aware there only 32 people picked every year so what do you do to be one of the top 32 students? >> my children would claim it was administrative error. i did nothing i can also answer was one of 32 people who picked at the right time. my own guess and with that conventional background and with archaeology and i wrote a column for the campus newspaper and took the credit and the religion of a middle eastern studies major. i have no expectations of getting it i was not for no student. >> you went to oxford and got a phd. >> classic in and out career i worked on the hill and the pentagon the state department and the white house and in between at universities or those think tanks every other country forces you to choose a path one of the great things about this country is you never have to decide what you want to do when you grow up. >> you have one of two positions and one is the bush 41 administration you are in charge of the middle east of the national security staff and under the

summer camps where masks are required, the transmission was minimal, we see a day care centers across rhode island and many other places the transmission is absolutely minimal when we do the public health measures, i want to assure the american people that we have to keep her guard up, this is a great weapon against the pandemic, you can save a life in multiple lives if you infect one person, that can affect two people, they really do work and avoid crowds when you can come if you're an area where there spreading, don't have the crowded indoor spaces, there is nothing magical about a bar except that it's crowded, indoor are drinking and don't have masks on and if the other house party with hundred people it'll be the same different, it does not matter whether crowded or indoor space, make good choices, outdoors versus indoors, smaller gathering versus larger gathering, good ventilation when you can, always wear a mask when he can't physically distant, these things matter, i forget your name but i'm happy that you asked that question but we gotta keep this up we only have a few more months t

an italian american rhode islander required the coolidge's interests in justifying italian rhode island's support for the democrat smith. it is well known that al smith was a favorite of the recent immigrant working classes who were attracted to his candidacy because he opposed prohibition, and because he was a catholic, and because he spoke with a bowery brogue and defended immigrants. which is profoundly true and profoundly important. it is the beginning of the story of smith's politics and the aspirations of his many supporters. al smith's admirers, it turns out, embraced both the cultural symbolism of his candidacy and the progressive initiatives of the candidate expounded. smith's catholicism, his working class roots, his disdain for prohibition and for the ku klux klan, these attributes all had a clear influence on voters in 1928, and they benefited smith greatly among urban workers just as they would prove unpalatable among voters in other parts of the nation. but leaving the story at that is superficial and perhaps even condescending. i have proceeded from the hypothesis that like

the senator from rhode island talked about big corporate powers. without acknowledging that the contributions from the fortune 500 in this presidential election overwhelmingly favor joe biden and the democrats. without acknowledging the contributions from wall street in this election overwhelmingly favor joe biden and the democrats. it's an awful lot of rhetoric about power. but it gets even more interesting when you look at supreme court nominations. we just heard an attack on the federalist society. a group that i've been a member of for over 25 years. i joined as a law student. it's a group that brings conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists together to have robust discussions about the constitution and about the law. what's interesting is nowhere in the senator of rhode island's remarks was any reference to a company called arabella advisers which is a for-profit entity that manages nonprofits, including the 1630 fund and the new vent are fund. what are those? those sound like awfully dark and confusing names. well, according to "the wa

from north smithfield, rhode island. laura's brother saved her life when he donated one of his kidneys who her. the kidney problems she battled was a preexisting condition protected under the aca. just like co-vid is now a preexisting condition for nearly 8 million americans. laura tells me without the aca and its protections for people with preexisting conditions, insurance premiums, if i'm able to get insurance at all will be financially out of reach for me. i will no longer be able to afford the health monitoring, labs, specialist appointments and treatment that are essential for my kidney to function. my medications alone would cost about $48,000 annually. before the aca patients like me experienced times when they would come up against a life threatening wall. not in treatment but in the annual or lifetime caps on coverage. insurers were allowed to impose them. i can't imagine what this would have meant for me. bankruptcy or worse. laura is not alone. we're in the midst of a deadly health crisis trump has botched wh

she turned to the row around the statue of cecil rhodes.d not be sacrificed to current concerns to bejoined by a statue of mandela. will the minister do all she can to stop the destruction of important historical statues ? there are approximately 12,000 outdoor statues in england. in the region of 3,500 statues are protected as, or as part of, listed buildings, of which 473 are of historical figures. the future of the vast majority of these historic statues are the responsibility of the owners, usually local authorities. the government policy on historic public statues is quite clear — they should not be removed, but retained with a fuller contextualization on the background and history of those commemorated provided — summarised as retain and explain. does the minister agree that people would be more likely to accept existing statues if we showed greater recognition of the full history of our country? in 1682, william goodwin proposed a statue in london to prominently acknowledge the injustice suffered by enslaved africans. doesn't she agr

judge barrett was a rhodes scholar. not sure that that's true. >> what i have written here. >> attended rhodes college. >> my bad. >> all right. clear that up. anyway, within the last week, around 50,000 workers, disney, united, american airlines lost their jobs. negotiations up on capitol hill but seems to be a division between secretary mnuchin who expressed a willingness and ability to work with speaker pelosi and meadows, widely reported to be against sort of moving forward with this deal. up on the hill speaking with senator mcconnell yesterday, not involve ared in the actual talks. at this point, isn't it time for the president instead of considering the calendar before the election to step in himself and have these conversations? see him up at the debate the other night. if not now, when? for the president to get involved? >> yeah. so first i would say nancy pelosi is not being serious. if she becomes serious then we can have a discussion here. >> and off by trillions. >> low are your offer $2.2 trillion and ask

but you actually accompanied me on that visit to newport, rhode island. we had taken a packing ship from new york. and we met with religious leaders of the community of newport, and they presented their letters and gave some oratory and such. in my response to the hebrew congregation in newport, you are correct. i believe that it is fundamental, fundamental in the fabric of this nation, when i had writ that we are a country that will give to bigotry no place, to persecution no assistance. that everyone can sit happily and safely under their own vine and victory, and there shall be none to make them afraid. with regard to my own personal belief, i am in complete concordance with mr. jefferson. religion, at least to myself, is a private matter betwixt an individual and their maker. that said, i have rather wide latitude in my acceptance of other religions. i have once writ that i care not mohammedan oris a hebrew or a christian of any sect or any religion at all. i think that it is inherent in the beliefs of this country. at least, i hope it is. another que

why a county larger than rhode island only has one drop-off box. only on cbs news: breonna taylor's boyfriend kenneth walker speaks to gayle king. and after the curtain fell on in-person performances how one theater is proving all the world's a stage. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us. there are several developing stories as we come on the air, including two significant setbacks tonight in the search for a cure for coronavirus. just as cases are spiking nationwide, we're going to get to that and the drug companies that are now pausing their tests on experimental drugs in just a moment. but we're going to begin with that marathon confirmation hearing on capitol hill that is now stretching into the night. president trump's pick for the supreme court, judge amy coney barrett, has spent the day defending her judicial philosophy and dodging questions about how she'd rule on future cases, including next month's challenge to obamacare. barret

we pull back from it to tell you i suspect that one should but ok it's one thing to implant alex rhodes to read signals saying why are 2 brain regions but our thoughts are the product of billie and of neural connections how can an eloquent device connected self to every single neuron made task same was improbable. i don't i don't think we're connecting to every single neuron that's not the idea at all they even with a long long musket talking or perhaps thousands of connections all i have so far in the experiments i've done is 100 in action in the body when you are communicating now you don't use all of you to communicate using a small relatively small number so i think it is this this pull out you're still looking might be thousands maybe it might be millions of connections in the end but relative to the 100000000000 neurons that you've got it's still a relatively small number so don't think you're looking at you age growing so to an electrode that's not what we're looking to do by any means but a small number. number is fairly large because you know lots of possibilities but there are

i am sticking close to home during the shutdown here in europe stomping ground rhode island our studio is just off the brown university campus the prettiest time of year but it's an eerie feeling to drive the streets of the east side on that beautiful campus and see them so abandon your teaching at n.y.u. how are your students making out during this disruption. well i'm happy to say that n.y.u. has been pretty good in terms of. you know following safety protocols and so forth and so there have been you know very few students you know who got infected but it's been an adjustment for everyone you know faculty students. and you know we're doing online teaching and so far we're so pretty well but one thing i've found as a teacher is that we actually have to invest more time because contact is in or it's not physical contact it's it's you know talking to people more frequently than usual reaching out to people. you know making sure that they feel you know connected listen to that there is some some sense of the community and i think that's that's really the important thing you know ingredie

so many things have been coming up in the news lately so the technology of implanting alex rhodes into the brain cortex is at least 20 years old and the electrodes in the brain have already been used to control at electric sites in people yet mosques near a link project is presented as a giant leap forward why. well i think you know musk. that's what it's the center but it is good in some ways but the moment he just been experimented on with pigs as i understand so there's no human joy i was here not only is it or. but only the type of electrodes they're using the not rigid the electrodes that i have implanted in my nervous system were. like like a hairbrush. and the potential there is that i can break off and of course firing them into the brain on a system would be quite dangerous a 100 spikes in my nervous system so i think if we're looking at very. you know you can move them around the top of electrodes the they don't mess he's talking about that and that's much better because they can move with all the nervous system but the issue i have is how do you implant them in a human becau

jayapal: i yield two minutes to my friend from rhode island, mr. cicilline. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from rhode island is recognized for two minutes. mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, for most of the past century the united states has led the world in the promotion of human rights. people from all over the world have long come to america seeking refuge and a better life. in our best moments, we welcome them with open arms. yet under the trump administration, immigrants have been met with great hostility. on his watch, children have been separated from their families and endured unspeakable trauma in d.h.s. custody. in the past few weeks new and horrific allegations have emerged about the use of forced sterilization on immigrant women by i.c.e. allegations so sear joust and sickening that they demand a -- so serious and sickening that they demand investigation. immigrant women received unnecessary hysterectomies, reports were destroyed, and migrants were not tested for covid-19. in the words of one immigrant held at the facility, i quote, when i met al

we will speak with democratic senator shelden whitehouse of rhode island in just a few minutes. thursday's presidential debate made a bit more news and a bit less noise than the first match-up. president trump said his administration was working very hard to reunite migrant families separated at the border. but is that true? 545 children were separated from their parents in 2017. we have been reported on what happened to them and what happens now. the latest is coming up. >>> and the united states is not the only place with protests against police brutality. far from it. nigeria is africa's most populous country and biggest oil producer. we'll break down the protests happening there, some of which have turned deadly. >>> following reporting that president trump plans to fire the fbi director, christopher wray, if he wins re-election. axios is reporting he also plans to replace the cia director, gina haspell and mark es pechlt r. what more can you tell us about the president's plans if he should win another term? >> well, joshua, the president is already going through who he want

orleans,s angeles, new and the state of rhode island. ideas about how these places were chosen? start.ll said, we did choose to aim for some diversity in setting, how urban these areas are, the types of approaches the schools are taking to reopening and different strategies to support reopening. these are also districts that volunteered, that wanted to get out in front in thinking about how to use some of these rapid tests in conjunction with the other strategies to reopen effectively. committhese areas schools are taking somewhat -- within these areas, some schools are taking somewhat different approaches. for many areas, this is a one step at a time approach, not implementing a citywide program everywhere right away. they are starting on limited basis and expanding it out. some areas are testing out the new test compares to ones that have been used more widely, lab tests that are not done nearly as fast or as easily. other school districts are focusing on a couple of schools that want to try regular repeat testing on an ongoing basis t

rhode island is an example. see here way back in april they were up here at the line here, more than 400 cases a day. 524 cases on friday. that's the challenge. how do you keep this from becoming that again? one more point as i want to bring back the doctor. hospitalizations, back in may 1300. more than 1300 rhode islanders in the hospital sometimes. now 140 friday. the doctor with us, an emergency physician and researcher at brown university. you were in the emergency room yesterday. what do you need to do or do you see signs what you have now, how do you keep it a problem and not a crisis? >> in hospitals across the northeast it feels like we're back in mid april. we feel the numbers going up. we're seeing more sick patients. what we're imploring people is to stay home and wear a mask, not go out in public. we are worried about what is coming in two weeks and four weeks because we know right now weir at the tip of the iceberg. >> tip of the iceberg. what is it like in the emergency room right now? >> you know,

she graduated summa cum laude and she's a rhodes scholar. >> you said rhodes scholar, that's not true. >> i'm sorry. rhodes college. >> potato potato. back with more of the reed after this. . one wash, stains are gone. daughter: slurping don't pay for water. pay for clean. it's got to be tide. just between us, cleaning with a mop and bucket is such a hassle. well i switched to swiffer wet jet and it's awesome. it's an all-in-one that absorbs dirt and grime deep inside. and it helps prevent streaks and haze. stop cleaning. start swiffering - [announcer] meet the make family-sized meals fast. and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. whatever road you take, make sure your tires are ready to get you there safely. right now at midas, buy three cooper tires, and get one free. find your tires at midas.com but despite the rising pain and anguish made worse during the pandemic, insurance companies still refused to cover mental health and addiction treatment. until now. senator scott wi

noting that virginia which gender is a slave state had nearly 700000 people at the 790 census and rhode island had 68000 roughly a free state connecticut next door had 3 and a half times that around 240000 so rhode island was thus given proportionally more power education noted then virginia. slave holding. a. slave holding state and connecticut its next door neighbor was also not able to overpower it as much with 3 and a half times the population so the rural city every cultural industrial mountains plains all of those divisions all of those divisions bring in different interests and the electoral college softens that softens those edges just a little bit keisha if there's a time in the electoral college the house of representatives then decides the presidency but it's not the representatives of the states that are voting correct and how much does that further complicate matters well that might be a better question for jennifer because you know i've been trying to figure out exactly what happened and that's something that you know entirely possible are you did i ask you this are you co

about this for a long time to come. >> joining us now is democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. he serves on the judiciary, finance, budget, and environment and public works committees. senator, good evening. >> good evening. >> what reaction do you have to what we just heard from leader mcconnell? >> well, he left out the most important part, which is who they're doing it for. and when you look at the amount of money, particularly anonymous money, that has gone into selecting these nominees, that's gone into funding the campaigns for these nominees, that goes into the groups that are constantly in front of the supreme court telling the judges how to rule, it's time that we pulled back the curtain and got a good hard look for the american people at all of that because there's strong evidence that this is being run for a small group of very big republican donors who are very supportive of mitch mcconnell, guess what. >> i wonder what the next step is in your view for senate democrats. the votes are there to confirm judge barrett to the supreme court and make her justice b

yield two minutes to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. cicilline. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from rhode island is minutes.d for two mr. cicilline: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding. stages ker, one of the of deprogramming cult members is to point out the differences ideology and lt's reality. cult.is a in an effort to reach some of the people that has falling control, let me put out facts. mass shootings are not something so the government will take away their guns. a tragicennedy died in aircraft accident, he's not in hiding. nor will he be president trump's runningmate. and president trump is not fighting a secret work against a network hild molesting of politicians. sad statement that discussi discussing such absurdities is occurring in this chamber today. that some have praised qanon and encouraged the growth of this cult even as the labeled it a domestic terror threat. sadly, with the support of the white house, and even some has rs of congress, qanon moved from the darkest corners of the internet into the

the senator from rhode island gave a long presentation, complete with lots of charts. i'll say a couple of things on free speech. first of all, our democratic colleagues when they address the issue of so-called dark money and campaign finance contributions are often deeply, deeply hypocritical and don't address the actual facts that exist. here are some facts. of the top 20 organizations spending money for political speech in the year 2016, 14 of them gave virtually all their money to democrats and another three split their money evenly. only three of the top 20 gave money to republicans. what did that mean in practice? that meant the top 20 super pac donors contributed $422 million to democrats and 189 million to republicans. those who give these impassioned speeches against dark money don't mention their side is funded by dark money with a massive differential. the senator from rhode island talked about big corporate powers without acknowledging that the contributions from the fortune 500 in this presidential election overwhelmingly favor joe biden and the democrats,

democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. whitehouse: why would we rush forward?there's a promise to big donors that must be kept. when david cook great for vice president, he campaigned on getting rid of medicaid and medicare. imagine his fury when obamacare passed. his groups are spending millions right now on ththis nomination. amy: we'll h have morere on they coneney barretett hearing after headlinenes. as t the u.s. deatath toll from covid-19 tops 215,000, president trump returned to the e campaign trail monday just a week after he was released from a hospital where he was treated for covid-19. trump spoke in front of thousands of people -- many maskless -- who were packed together in defiance of social distancing guidelines. florida governor ron desantis was seen maskless giving people high-fives just a day after the state recorded over 5500 new cocoronavirus cases. during the rally, trump again falsely claimed he is nonow imme to covovid-19. pres. trump: i went through it and now they say i am immune. i feel so powerful. kissl walk in there and everyone in

he used to be the treasure of the rhode island democratic party and the director of the rhode island branch of planned parenthood. how did mcmcconnell become a judge? according to cq roll call, he contributed about $50,000 to democratic political committees before becoming a judge. this by the way is more than any other judge nominated by obama or trump. judge mcconnell stands at the top. $500,000. he donated $12,600 to senator whitehouse. he hosted a fund-raiser for senator whitehouse at his home in providence in 2006. judge mcconnell's wife gave another $250,000 to candidates and causes. so that's $750,000. and now judge mcconnell is a judge after senator whitehouse vigorously led the fight to get him appointed a judge. he sits on the committee on code of conduct of the u.s. judicial conference. what has he done on the committee on code of conduct? he has helped lead the charge to issue a new rule to try to ban judges from being members of the federalist society. and to the shock of no one looking at the red yarn connections, after judge mcconnell and the committee put out this ass

. >> i want to bring in brian rhodes into the conversation. i mentioned the world will be watching whatever condition donald trump is able to project on this walk from the residence to the helicopter. the world has expressed a lot of anxious, the penchant for spreading russian disinformation, the unwillingness to get on board with the recommendations from his top scientist. the world wants an american president who is well. fit to serve. i wonder, ben rhodes, with your experience and parts abroad, what you think the reaction is to these images. >> i think there are a couple of dimensions. first of all, the rest world is looking at this and has, just like you've been talking about, the lack of trust and transparency and information, the leaders of our key allies don't know the true nature of this crisis. the leaders don't know. so there's a lot of under certainty in the world. the risk of course is that nations try to take advantage of under certainty. adversaries try to take advantage of under certainty. the second thing that's important is ha

we turn to democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island.tuesday, he opted not to ask judge barrett any questions most instead he gave a 30-minute presentation on how right-wing groups, including the federalist society and judicial crisis network, have e used dark moneyo reshape the nation's judiciary. this is an excerpt. sen. whitehouse: my experience around politics is when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows. now, people may say, what does all this matter, this is a political parlor game, it's no big deal. well, there's some pretty high stakes here that we've been talking abouout here on our side and i'll tell you three of t thm right here -- roe versus wade, obergefell, and the obamacare cases. in all cases, there is big anonymous money behind various lanes of activity. one lane of activities through the conduit of the federalist society. it's managed by a guy, was managed by a guy named leonard leo, and it has taken over the selection of judicial nominees. how do we know that to be the case? because trump h

the state of rhode island is technically the state of rhode island and providence plantations.ove that reference to the providence plantations. so, yeah, voters get to clean up some of this language, especially the ones that are just so out of date. >> reed wilson, like i said, you throw yourself into this in ways that there should be more that do this, but you have your finger on the pulse of state governance in a way that not many people do in washington and part of it is, you're not in washington right now. that may be the reason your finger is on the pulse. nice work. and thank you, sir. >> thanks, chuck. >>> up next -- we're going to dig into the supreme court decision on the mail-in voting deadline in wis was. >>> plus, we're still awaiting joe biden to take the stage in warm springs, georgia. when he does, we'll bring it to you so stick with us. we're at the movies and we need to silence our phone. who knows where that button is? i don't have silent. everyone does -- right up here. it happens to all of us. we buy a new home, and we turn into our parents. what i do is hel

the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i would just add that that was not what either senator daines nor anybody else on the republican side said at the time. i was here at the time. what was said at the time, particularly by senator daines, is i don't think it's right to bring a nominee forward in an election year. not when the parties control -- is split in one way or another. i don't think it's right to bring a nominee forward in an election year because the american people should have their voice reflected. that hasn't changed. this new emphasis on the party difference is fundamentally the rule of because we can. and if that is going to be the rule, if that is the rule that republicans are prepared to adopt here, that what matters around here is a precedent, is a principle, isn't what is right but is just because we can, then please don't feign surprise in the months and years ahead if we on the democratic side follow that same rule that you are saying is the way to proceed today. and the same way that it is

it is significant, her background, graduating with honors from rhodes college and with honors from notre dame law school and clerked on the supreme court was professor at notre dame law school prior to being confirmed on the bench of the court of appeals. i helped confirm her to that seat on the seventh circuit. i have followed on from that time when i first came to know of judge amy coney barrett. i've done my due diligence in my role of advice and consent. i worked through the articles that she has written, the cases that she has written. i have engaged in a lengthy one-on-one with her. i watched both full days when she appeared before the judiciary committee. she presented herself admirably. she all know that confirmation processes are not pretty. i have expressed my concerns previously that good people will decide that the qimghts as we -- confirmation process as we have it now, sometimes an awful process, that i worry that they are going to think that it's not worth it, not worth what it puts them and their families through and they opt-out -- they opt to avoid government service. a

conservative catholics criticize this pope saying he sews confusion, and a bishop from rhode island saide pope's statement clearly contradicts what has been long-standing teaching. >> you have to remember, this is not a pope who is a homophobe. looking at church teachings what does it change for the church? ? really doesn't change church teaching at all. what it changes is the church attitude toward civil law and what the pope is saying, just like we don't oppose civil laws that allow divorce and remarriage, he does not oppose civil unions that allow gay couples. in fact, he supports it, because he feels that their rights need to be protected. >> he supported civil unions back when he was bishop of buenos aires as an alternative for gaymarriage. still this woman appreciates the pope's softening of a stance. >> they are making progress toward inclusivity, and it means the world. >> lgbtq people say that it sends a good message to countries where there's laws against gay people, where they can be iscriminated against >>> the pandemic has cancelled most live musical performances but we are

you are an honors graduate of rhodes college -- an extraordinary liberal arts school. an honors graduate of notre dame law school. for twoked distinguished federal judges. you have been a law professor. you are a devout christian. you have raised seven children. to waxed too -- too metaphysical here, but do you have personal values as a result of this? judge barrett: i would hope that no one would consider me to be nominated for anything if i didn't have values. sen: kennedy: do you have personal opinions? judge barrett: of course i have personal opinions. sen: kennedy: do you have principles? judge barrett: i have principles. i would not be fit for office if i didn't. let's suppose that we had a nominee appear before us. it happens to be a man. he said, i've been nominated for a federal judgeship. and i finished law school, that i had not cracked a logbook since law school, since civil procedure. and i don't have any opinions. i don't have any principles. i don't read newspapers. i don't even read the news. i haven't read a book since law school. i'm like bluto in ani