Good morning. I'm James Helmin from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

2002 for Wednesday, September 5th. In today's news, Bob Woodward's new book

Royals the White House.

After a huge upset, a black woman

will now hold the house seat that once belonged

to John F. Kennedy.

And Bob Mueller says he's willing to accept written answers from Trump on

whether the campaign colluded with Russia.

But first, the big idea. The confirmation hearings of Supreme Court

nominee Brett Kavanaugh kicked off Tuesday as a bitter partisan brawl.

With loud objections from Democratic senators,

the arrests of more than 70 protesters,

and questions even from some Republicans

about how Kavanaugh would separate himself from President Trump, the man who chose him.

But GOP senators calmly defended Kavanaugh himself,

confident that there will be no defections from the solid Republican support he needs

to secure a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land.

The 53 year old judge who sits on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, sat impassively

for nearly seven hours of opening statements from senators before he spoke for about 20 minutes.

I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences.

I am not a pro-planif or pro-defendant judge.

I'm not a pro- or pro defense judge. I am a pro law judge. The

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