tom goldstein, founder of scotusblog.com. karlan, a professor of law at stanford university, who worked in the justice department during the obama administration, and paul clement, a former solicitor general under president george w. bush. and we welcome all of you to the "newshour". marcia, i'm going to start with you. overall takeaway from today's session? >> well, the first day usually is not all that substantive. the hearing played out the way it has traditionally. the senators -- each senator has an opening statement. ten there is an introduction of the form knee, and the nominees' opening statement. that did happen. but what we gater from the first day is we see where the concerns are on both sides, where the questioning may lead, what kind of difficulties the nominee may have if answering some of the questions. on the republican said today, we saw a lot of emphasis on judge gorsuch's qualifications. on the democratic side, we saw specific concerns about opinions he has written in certain areas such as workers protectio