grassley said it last week, he said we will have to be the jury. we have to listen to the evidence, weigh the evidence and be the jury. i will not be surprised if mcconnell s prediction comes to past and there is a vote and that would likely be early next week, neil? neil: john roberts, thank you very much to karl rove right now the former white house chief of staff bestselling author. karl, where do you think this is going? well, i think it is going to depend heavily upon the presentation of the two individuals on thursday. dr. ford first and brett kavanaugh. i m a little biased here because bret is a personal friend and i have great admiration for his intellect and character. i think at the end of the day look the senate judiciary committee is likely to bring him out and country will be unnecessarily divided over. this a country never become accepting of his nomination. but my sense is that at the end of the day he is sitting on the supreme court where over the years ahead he wil
become judge kavanaugh. and not pushing aside the mess and whether he ultimately gets fired and complicates the whole investigation and you name that but they don t think either of those are possibilities. what they do worry about is trade quickly turning into an expensive proposition for american consumers. especially during the holiday season as china and the united states go tit-for-tat going after each other s goods and hiking up those goods. read now from heather zumarraga and charlie gasper reena and bolton. the argument is this gets worse before it gets better on trade front [inaudible] i think it is possible, neil. what we learned over the weekend and today right is that china is actually not going to, as of this moment, sit in the same room, trade talks have been cancelled more or less, right? and china saying it will not negotiate with a gun to its head and also today symbolic because 10% of tariffs worth
kavanaugh s confirmation up for a vote. judge kavanaugh will be voted on here on the senate floor up or down. on the senate floor. this fine nominee to the supreme court will receive a vote in this senate in the near future. the republican senators to watch on this nomination susan collins of maine, jeff flake of arizona, and lisa murkowski of alaska. if they say they are no votes, the nomination would be in jeopardy. chairman chuck grassley sent a letter to professor christine blasey ford today after she sent him a note over the weekend, chairman grassley writing quote: i m writing to say thyme committed to fair and respectful treatment of you as have you requested i work to make certain the committee i chair handles all individuals involved in hearings in that manner and you deserve the same. a red state democrat told u.s. just moments ago is he looking forward to hearing from judge kavanaugh and his acruiser. whoever or however many
they ought to have a trite speak and relook forward to that as quickly as possible. he also has a right to clear his name. he truly does. that s what i m hoping we can get to that as quick as we can this week or whatever it takes. and with emotion and anger building here on capitol hill, a lot of republicans want to get through this quickly and get it up for a confirmation vote. neil? neil: mike emanuel, thank you very much. a lot of questions now about this second woman and her charges of misconduct and worse on the part of judge kavanaugh at the time when they were college students. the new york times was not able to corroborate these latest allegations so what are we to come make of where things stand right now. a former federal prosecutor. where do you see this going? i don t think it s going to go anywhere, neil. the woman herself said she wasn t even sure it was brett kavanaugh. so the new yorker scraped the bottom of the barrel to come up with this. the new york times
it s almost impossible tore judge kavanaugh to disprove these allegations that s what s ugly about politics. people are retreating to corners believing what they want to believe. as the congressman mentioned what s wrong with our politics when it comes to the supreme court. the supreme court outstepping its role. overstepping, stepping into policy making, that s what s brought us here. that s why the confirmation process is so politicized even to the point of politicizing allegations something as serious as sexual misconduct. neil: lee carter, obviously our own martha maccallum had a chance to talk to judge kavanaugh and his wife. i look forward to that on her fine show. in the meantime he has put out a number of statements today, tweets, whatever, to sort of argue his position that he is not giving up the good find here. again, republicans or at least those questioning dr. ford are damned if they do damned if they don t. they can appear chauvinist if they try to go into or pick apar