out some sort of new understanding. the russians are sympathetic to that point. we ll see if it will work out or not. i doubt it will reach an agreement on crimea. russians are there and they re not going anywhere. and concerns that the russians may be doing it again. let s see how tough the president is on that front. so far he has not been very tough in his public statements. putin denies it and basically suggest that they take him at his words and all of his national security team are saying yeah. wolf blitzer, wolf, thank you so much. we ll see you at 5:00 in the situation room with wolf blitzer. capitol hill, members are meeting with the new pick, brett kavanaugh. we look forward of the confirmation process in the next few weeks. now, as kavanaugh works to
the law. as to the treatment of precedent, judge kavanaugh wrote the book on the treatment of presidents. so again, there is a long record of more than 300 judicial opinions of his that we can review to see his respect and the power of precedent. i have no expectations that he ll depart from those principles and the individual case. quite the contrary of the man i know and judge i know of his independent and be consistent to those principles at all time. watching him last evening in the east room speaking about his daughters and his wife and speaking about justice elena kagan and speaking about his mother, it has to be sending a message. those are things that are
gives women the right to abortion nationwide. there are two things, true facts and the optics. he has two daughters, it is not like he excluded any sons. he has two daughters and perfectly fair and interesting to highlight them and to highlight his mother who became a judge. i think that was important pieces of information and the other thing brooke that you may have noticed is that referred to the fact that he had so many females all those things were true and valid to bring up at this moment but they also send a signal that he wants to be heard in that vein. joan, thank you so much. just ahead, an elderly man beaten with a brick and told go back to mexico. you will hear from his family, next. we came here for the friends.
important to judge kavanaugh as he said last night. i know he s been a mentor to all of them as he have been to me and other clerks. as americans begin to learn more in the coming days about him, there is a lot to like about this man and this judge and i hope that everyone can no him as i do. he would be confirmed by unanimous consent but i don t think we do it anymore in the confirmation battle. travis lenkner, thank you very mumch. don lemon has the scoop and will join me now. the trump transition, will not meet the deadline reuniting the youngest children who have been separating from their parents. we have details on that. the most extraordinary news of the day. the boys and their coach all pulled out alive from that cave
under george h.w. bush. our first date was in 2001. the next step, there was an inbound plane. so let s start there with our cnn analyst, and a supreme court biographer. jones, it is fascinating how many landmark moments judge kavanaugh have been apart of for republicans in the last 30 years. it is so truth, brooke. much of it comes from his years of george w. bush. he was in the 1990s with ken star on the independent counsel team that investigated bill clinton and ended up laying out 11 counts of wrong doing towards impeachment and as we all remember from the 90s, the house of representatives