robert mueller. mcgahn was on the front lines on some of these major moments, including the firing of james comey. mcgahn talked the president out of firing robert mueller, firing jeff sessions. so lots of threads and pieces in play. a white house official says the timeline for mcgahn is separate and apart from mueller, it has more to do with kavanaugh. don mcgahn more than anyone has been pushing the kavanaugh confirmation, leading that process. in a broader sense, getting the number reshaping the federal judiciary in the area of donald trump and mitch mcconnell. that has been something that mcgahn, a former federalist society member has basically wanted to do much of his adult life and has been working on and working towards here at the white house, ali. and has had some success in doing. yeah, right. if one wants to look at the successes of the trump administration, a supreme court nominee, a second supreme court nominee, one justice on the supreme court and a whole lot of j
president and house republicans tried to make a case of republicans that they should get rid of the filibuster. you did this for the supreme court and look what happened. we have a great justice, a lot of victories and expecting more. you should do the same thing for appropriations and they actually won a convert on this, the senate appropriations chairman richard shellby apparently told the president okay, i can back this even though mitch mcconnell is opposed to it and the president said where have you been? and i just think we re going to see a big assault on the filibuster in the coming months. i don t know they actually get rid of it. i don t think they will but still, it s note worthy. can t wait for the tweets, i m sure that s where we get the first word. so few presidents have made as much news and much controversy because of the white house tumult and staff comings and goings as this president. we re about to enter one of these phases where you see staff turnover at the wh
motivated to vote for democrats against president donald trump in the midterm elections, i don t know what another rally in the city is going to do for you. but those voters who are sort of on the fence in the swing districts, who might have been saying we really can t have any more of these republicans after the family separation policy, now they are back on the fence again. and it s interesting, listen to john lewis here, veteran of the civil rights movement, leading liberal in the congress. democrats understand there s a supreme court coming up and republicans like tax cut plan. suddenly all of this talk of democratic advantages and john lewis thinking this year maybe immigration works for the dems. it s time for some of necessary trouble turn america upside down to stand rightside up. but again back to the i.c.e question, this quote from a
president to put somebody slightly more moderate and lightly more like kennedy. whether it s the first supreme court pick or this one now, this is the one area where the white house has a process and system and been methodical and communicated with outside interest groups unlike other issues. whether it s health care or immigration, this one stayed on. you have great reporting today about how the president goes about this including this. trump insists upon an extraordinarily well qualified nominee with a superlative resume and drawn to contenders with name brand degrees, harvard, yale and wants to see a porlt foel toshio of solid academic writing. this adviser acknowledged trump does not care to read it but simply wants to know it exists. that s priceless. classic trump right there. you re completely right that white house counsel is this is the thing that this white house is excellent at. not only with supreme court confirmations and gorsuch
benefit. this wasn t an issue that galvanized democrats but now with potentially the future of roe v. wade on the line, democrats, this is their chance to really get their voters excited and that s why you re seeing the democratic messaging on the supreme court already focus on not only abortion but future of the affordable care act. health care is the top motivating factor for democratic voters right now and chuck schumer and senate democrats will make sure they hear about health care and the supreme court through the confirmation vote. one thing you re hearing from conservatives in the last couple of days, finally we get to fill the robert bourque and conservatives it was spouppod to happen and republicans view that as ground zero. where he was blocked, ginzburg was nominated that couldn t happen so anthony kennedy and you talk about his decision in casey versus plan parenthood, that was ground zero for these politicized supreme court battles and republicans have a chance to righ