the president is the man who nominated him. the president is the person whose faith he will need through this. why don't they meet? >> they want to protect the president. this is a fragile nomination at this point. they're standing by kavanagh, but he's in damage control mode, crisis modin side the white house. the president is letting kavanagh defend himself. he's issued his statement of support at 2:15 at that press pool. >> swin, you had some reporting this weekend. the president believes there is a conspiracy to torpedo the kavanagh nomination. tell me about that. >> absolutely. i must add in the past year, this isn't even the first time this white house and this president has gone into full-blown damage control over a trump endorsement involving teens. this is an example of that in the past year or so.