Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

KHSU 90.5 and KHSQ 107.7 may experience intermittent outages today as our engineering team updates infrastructure. Livestreams are unaffected. Thank you for your patience.

Nominees

NPR

Published January 7, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr notes that cabinet nominees are often on the defensive for personal missteps, as opposed to more substantive issues.