"Today, confirmation hearings began for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson," Jimmy Fallon said on Monday's Tonight Show. "The hearing process will last four days — it's basically C-SPAN's version of Coachella." The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, "is 88 years old — when it was his turn to speak, he was like, 'Tell us who you are, and then tell me who I am,'" he joked. "This is cool: I saw that Judge Jackson's parents were at the confirmation hearing. Even crazier, so were Chuck Grassley's."
"Sen. Ted Cruz was actually Judge Jackson's classmate at Harvard Law School, though she will not likely get his vote," Kimmel said. "He pontificated at length today about not turning this into a political circus," but "the big Ted story today — I don't know if you've seen this — is a video shot at the Bozeman, Montana, airport. A man who looks suspiciously like Ted Cruz has a heated exchange with an airline employee and then after the airline employee, a police officer. Apparently he missed his flight and demanded to speak to the manager of the airport about a dozen times, to the point where they had to call in security."
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Kimmel mockingly displayed "a pretty good approximation of what Cancun Karen was complaining about," but the entire story is "especially funny because two weeks ago, Ted was bragging out how much employees at the airport love him," he showed. "Can you imagine hugging Ted Cruz? Donald Trump hugs Eric more than flight attendants hug Ted Cruz."
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