a lot about her personal experience, a bit about her judicial philosophy, whichill be really at t centerof so of the questioning at will come inhese following days. >> kelly o'donnell, up there in the senate gallery and we n tu to our fies and lleagues here, richard wolffe and bruce fine,onstitutional la expert, richard wolffe or of "renegad"renegade." this is really a moment of political ama for the nators aswell. >> and one of the mos interesting pieces of the ama is seeing republicans take on this first latina nominee and try not to seem like they're opposing all latino terests. they're going after these and it's a hard line for th to tread. 're seng peopleth siificant latina voting in their own states and havg to tread this line. is whole distinction about subjve and objective judgments, let's be clear. supreme court stices have to decide ings personally. ifny of these decisions re easy and could be decided objectivel then they would, decided at a lower court. sovery nominee is important. that's whye have these hearin. i like the whole id that there's some objective ideal out there, bu

wa listening to the radio and they were invitingeople in new york cityo come down to times square whichill be played out on the huge screens youre very familiar with. i image people will be walking by television sets best buy and other sto getting a glimpse of this. ey are expecting a billion people, 'm heard, to be watching this via television a manythers there in that crowd and it's incredibl to this, chris. get on perspective. u're there in the midst of a of this. how does the ergy feel thre? it is celebration, more somber? take us inside what you're seeing. >> i will tell you that i've be here over the last several dayseay through the weekend and up until today. and there was such a change, i think, because it h been 12 days sce the death of michael jackson. fans have had ti to geve and now they are really celebrating his life. thpeople i saw coming in tay were jus very excited that they ha beat the odds t they were able to get a ticket to go inside the staples cter. they know it is going to a trendous show. in fact,housands are already gaing here at the sples center, as i said, that t