OF COURSE HE WAS DONALD TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND SO HE WILL NOW SERVE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL DESPITE
PROTESTS BY SENATORS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE.
OF COURSE, THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS BREAKING NEWS IS THE
FACT THAT HE HAD HAPPENED AFTER SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN WAS
SILENCED BECAUSE SHE WAS READING A LETTER THAT CARETTA SCOTT
KING WROTE ABOUT SESSIONS BACK IN 1986 INDICATING THAT THERE
WERE SIGNIFICANT ISSUES WITH HIM AND CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSES.
THE SENATE DECIDED TO SILENCE HER AND SHE HAD TO TAKE A SEAT.
NONETHELESS, THE SAME DAY THE SENATE DID CONFIRM HIM.
52 TO 47.
THAT MEANS THAT THERE WAS A DEMOCRAT WHO VOTED FOR HIM
AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY SENATOR JOE MANSION FROM VIRGINIA.
ALL FACTS THAT YOU SHOULD KEEP IN MIND AS WE MOVE FORWARD
TOWARD THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
LOOK, HE WAS GOING TO GET THE CONFIRMATION ANYWAY.
WE KNEW THAT DOT THE VALUE OF HAVING SOMEONE LIKE ELIZABETH
WARREN SPEAK OUT IS IT GIVES THE PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT THIS
PERSON WHO IS ABOUT TO BE CONFIRMED AS OUR ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
AGAIN, SHE WAS SILENCED USING A RIDICULOUS RULE THAT WAS
CREATED BACK IN 1902.
IT SPECIFICALLY HAD TO DO WITH PEOPLE WHO DISRESPECT EACH
OTHER DURING THIS HEARING.
THERE WERE TWO SENATORS BACK IN THE EARLY 1900S THAT
LITERALLY STARTED PUNCHING EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF A DISAGREEMENT.
AND THAT CONTEXT, THIS WOULD APPLY.
IN THE
CONTEXT OF SENATOR WARREN CHALLENGING THE NOMINEE, I
FEEL LIKE IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE.
NOT JUST THAT.
SHE'S READING WORDS THAT WERE WRITTEN ABOUT THE PERSON
SHE IS SPEAKING ABOUT.
WE'VE SEEN HER LITERALLY RIP
APART WELLS FARGO CEOS WORD FOR WORD.
LITERALLY BECAUSE SHE IS BRINGING UP A VALID CASE TO
POINT OUT AGAINST THE CONFIRMATION AGAINST
SOMEONE WHO AGAIN A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT.
THAT IS WHAT SHE WAS SILENCED ABOUT BECAUSE SHE IS
SPEAKING THE TRUTH OUT WHAT WORRIES ME ABOUT THIS IS OF
COURSE WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THIS CASE, HE IS GOING TO
BE BOMBARDED WITH A BUNCH OF ISSUES THAT HE IS GOING TO
HAVE TO DEAL WITH AND ONE OF THEM IS UNFORTUNATELY GOING
TO BE POLICE BRUTALITY AND THEIR SPECIFIC VIEWS DURING
AFRICAN-AMERICANS THE UNITED STATES.
THAT IS WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE SO WEARING TO SEE HOW HE
DEALS WITH THIS.
HE'S BEEN QUESTIONED ON THIS ISSUE THAT DATES BACK 20 OR
30 YEARS AGO.
LET'S SEE HOW HIS VIEWS ON THIS HAVE CHANGED.
AS YOU MENTIONED AT THE START, HE WAS GOING TO BE CONFIRMED.
WE CAN CONSISTENTLY PROTEST OUR VOICE AND PUT MESSAGES OUT THERE
WHILE THOSE INSIDE WERE VOTING FOR THIS IS INTERESTING WITH
BETSY DEVOS, AS LONG AS THEIR POCKETS REMAIN LINED, THERE'S
NOT MUCH WE CAN DO OTHER THAN LOOK TO PEOPLE LIKE ELIZABETH
WARNED A PUSH FORWARD THIS MESSAGE, CONTINUOUSLY PUSH
FORWARD THOSE WHO WERE LOOKING TO TRY TO STAND UP AGAINST THIS
TO YESTERDAY IT WAS NICE TO SEE PEOPLE SHARING SPECIFIC
SENATOR'S NUMBERS.
IT DIDN'T HELP BECAUSE MIKE PENCE HAD
OTHER ISSUES BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE COMMUNICATE WITH
EACH OTHER PUSH FORWARD THE MESSAGE THAT THIS MAN
SHOULD NOT BE IN THIS POSITION OF POWER.
WE NEED TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY SINGLE DILUTION
DECISION HE IS GOING TO BE MAKING GOING FORWARD