snet is the last place where the senate can have it all. and now president bush wants to destroy our checks and balances. that check on his power is the right to extended debate. every senator can stand on behalf of the people who have sent him here and say their peace. in the senate's 200 plus years of history this has been done hundreds and hundreds of times. stand up to popular presidents, to unpopular presidents. presidents arrogant with power. in the eyes of the senator. and yes even to reject presidential nominations. even judicial nominations. >> this is the one year anniversary of the nomination of robert conrad to be a member of the fourth circuit. when this congress began the majority leader and i agreed that the partisanship in the judicial nominations process was unhealthy and we said this this congress would be different. the los angeles times and the "washington post" acknowledged it want did his part to get the process off to a good start back at the beginning of this congress. they and many others complimented his good faith

previous as if there was one, a guinness book of world record, for this kind of thing the record was snettures today are expected to be in the 7 0s. it's not that cold out. >> i remember the sochi olympics some days there were 70s as bell, too. >> looking beautiful out there this morning. that's a live picture of northwest d.c.. caityln roth is with us now. that's good to see. calling that crisp this mornin morning. >> it is coming but more like skiing weather here. all the resorts got a few inches of snow april skiing you can do it around here. satellite and radar shows you clear skies. back off to the west snow showers moving through the ohio valley and rain showers in the tennessee valley and across lake michigan snow. it's cold enough to snow in portions of mid west and actually it would be cold enough to snow here and even to stick here. luckily, though, we're not seeing anything but sunshine. freeze warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. today and all of us are at freezing or below. that runs until temperatures nudge above the 32 degree mark. 31 washington. 27 baltimore. really chi

. >> snet and if house also olding election this is cycle. talking about in our roundtable next.on. go ahead. >> good morning. thank you for taking my call. if it wasn't for c-span i probably wouldn't be watchinging any politics because of the left wing cnn and msnbc. my candidate donald trump was treated very unfairly. he said he wasn't a politician initially. our e's going to reel in country and get us jobs. and chris matthews exploited him just like they did sarah palin when she was running with john mccain. because she said that she could see raush from alaska. now, my case in point is this. how come nobody asked hillary clinton that her plane when she was landing in kosovo took bullets and how come nobody exploited her on her joining the marine corps many, many years ago? those all came out but nobody ever -- at her town hall ever asked her those questions. and the left wingers like i say i won'tand msnbc -- and even watch megan kelly's show any more because they're trying to bring out that the women 70% of them don't like donald trump. i want to know who takes these polls a