'BradCast' 1/10/2017: (Senate confirmation hearings for Trump A.G. nominee Jeff Sessions)
Senate Republicans reverse course on demands they made for Obama nominees in 2009, while Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-AL), commenced the first day of confirmation hearings today in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have requested time to testify on Sessions' controversial civil rights record in the proceedings, but, in a break with Senate tradition, the members will not be allowed to do so until all of the other witness testimony has completed. We cover that and the troubling record of the former state AG and U.S. Attorney on civil rights, along with extended excerpts from his testimony on Day 1 of the hearings.\xa0 Democratic Senators Franken, Klobuchar and Whitehouse pressed him on voting rights, civil rights, and climate science, among other issues, in an all-too friendly hearing among Senate colleagues...