Hillary Clinton's Confirmation Hearings Begin

Secretary of State-desginate Hillary Clinton is sitting in front of the Senate Foreign Committee, chaired by Senator John Kerry, for her confirmation hearings. Below, we have a live video stream, via MSNBC, of the hearings.

Senator Charles Schumer introduced Clinton—saying he knew she will be a "brilliant Secretary of State"—but not before Kerrey acknowledged how Chelsea Clinton was present and that her mother had wished she could see her during hearings. (Kerry invited Chelsea to sit on the dais, as a quasi-intern.)

Side note: There's a lot of congratulating Kerry on his ascension to Foreign Relations Committee chair; Biden vacated the chairmanship. Besides joking about his own presidential (and even Secretary of State) ambitions, Kerry said of Clinton as Secretary of State, "America is back."

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By Jen Chung in News on January 13, 2009 10:12 AM

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The Man Bat

Chelsea is freaking HOT!!

cool

it must be wierd to have your entire identity shaped by your parents. Perhaps, she just has to wait it out until she is old enough to be anointed.

ides_of_march

Chelsea's face looks like a Picasso painting.

Felix Hoenikker

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/clintons-1-obama-0/?ref=opinion

At least everyone is upfront about their grift these days.

glennQNYC

We hope the President-elect [negotiates] better with Iran [than he had with the Clintons].

Me too!

Steven

What is the point of this? Hearing bunch of people talking like idiots.

Toby von Meistersinger

The hearings are just a formality. The only way this will be actually newsworthy is if she doesn't get confirmed.

Dirk

The hearings are dog and pony show. What do we not know about this woman already?

I don't envy Clinton. She's inheriting a shit pile.

suepart

a waste of time and money since the fix is in anyway.

dr zippy

"the fix is in" as in Obama picked someone qualified to hold the office?

EastRiver

Kerry invited Chelsea to sit on the dais, as a quasi-intern.

If you're Chelsea Clinton, what's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "intern"?