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AP: President Obama and Sonia Sotomayor
The Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor begin tomorrow at 10 a.m. with gavel-to-gavel coverage being offered by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS and C-SPAN.
Monday's schedule will include an opening statement by the judge, as well as remarks from the her home-state senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Wolf Blitzer will anchor CNN's coverage through 4 p.m. along with the network's self-proclaimed "best political team on television" – Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, John King, Jeffrey Toobin and Jessica Yellin. Senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash and congressional correspondent Brianna Keilar will provide updates from Capitol Hill.
Chris Matthews will take viewers through MSNBC’s coverage until 3 p.m., while other NBC News correspondents, including Andrew Mitchell and Pete Williams, will offer commentary.
Fox News will begin coverage at 9 a.m. with Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier at the news desk and Carl Cameron providing reports from inside the hearing room. Commentators will include Chris Wallace, Juan Williams and Greta Van Susteren.
As for non-cable outlets, PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" will carry the hearings live through 5 p.m. with anchor Judy Woodruff and analysis from Marcia Coyle, who covers the Supreme Court for the National Law Journal and NewsHour.
PBS affiliates around the country have the choice of opting out of live coverage, but Maryland Public Television (MPT) and Washington's WETA have both signed on for "NewsHour's" entire ride. There was no word on Virginia's WVPT at press time.
ABC News and CBS News will have reporters at the confirmation hearings, but only for live streaming coverage on their Web sites. [Access direct links below in "for more info" section.]
C-SPAN plans to dip in from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. before moving on to cover The House of Representatives.
CBS News report on Sotomayor hearings – July 12, 2009
In Fox News interview, Sen. Jeff Sessions calls possible
confirmation "extremely troubling." – July 12, 2009
For more info:
CBS.com's live streaming coverage
ABC.com's live streaming coverage
NewsHour's live streaming coverage
CNN.com's live streaming coverage
CNN press release announcing its multi-media Sotomayor coverage
FoxNews.com's Sotomayor page
AP: Firefighter will be witness against Sotomayor at Thursday's hearing
Sotomayor bio from Wikipedia
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