John Cornyn: “I support the Merida Initiative, which I know you support and are responsible for implementing in large part.”

This is unfortunately shaping up to be a close and I hope not disastrous election.

If there’s not enough votes to confirm him, then Senator Grassley might decide to postpone it. But I don’t think that’s the No. 1 goal right now.

This morning I had a very good conversation with judge Merrick Garland, who President Biden has nominated for attorney general.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.