argument. brett kavanaugh writing in the wall street journal that the supreme court must never been viewed as a partisan institut n institution. his tone was sharp. i want to ask you after we hear this sound from the hearing is what he said or how he said it. here is kavanaugh emotional at the hearing. has been a calculated and oran orchestrated political hit fueled with the pent-up anger of president trump and the 2016 election. fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record. revenge on behalf of the clintons and millions of dollars from outside opposition groups. this is a circus. we would all, rachel, be angry accused of something we did not do. in particular, sex assault.
supporters, dissenters, even brett kavanaugh making a final pitch for a seat on the supreme court on the line today. u.s. waging new battles against two super powers. china and russia. now responding. we are live this morning in hong kong and moscow. and in one hour, the world finds out who wins the 2018 nob nobel peace prize. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. happy friday. i m dave briggs. you can bet on the nobel peace prize. it is october 5th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. we will get a clue in a few hours if brett kavanaugh has the votes to join the supreme court. mitch mcconnell set a key procedural vote for 10:30 a.m. then senators still weighing how to play their hands have to show
thorough investigation. attorneys for christine blasey ford, kavanaugh s first accuser, calling the investigation a stain on the process of the fbi and our american ideal of justice. the president made his final push for kavanaugh at the rally in minnesota where he attacked democrats. their rage fueled resistance is starting to back fire at a level that nobody has ever seen before. the people of america are going to reject the democrat politics of anger and destruction. republican leaders margin of winning shaved from five to four. with north dakota senator heidi heitkamp coming out against the nominee. on the fargo affiliate, heitkamp said in an interview you should believe the victim. if this were a political decision for me, i certainly would be deciding this the other
will really boil down to is whether some of those moderate republican senators believe that the fbi was able to conduct a fair and comprehensive investigation. i think there will be also an open-ended question as to whether the senators as well as the american public will learn more about the process, and more specifically what were the parameters for this investigation and what, if any, constraints were placed on the bureau by the white house as they carried out this investigation into judge kavanaugh and allegations against him. so, bob costa, mitch mcconnell is going to have what is, in effect, a test vote. if it fails or goes south, do they pull this nominee? at this point they re full steam ahead with this cloture vote. they want to move it to that final vote. if the cloture vote fails, it really becomes almost impossible for the nominee to go forward because if you re not signaling to move the process as a republican or senator at this moment, you re not going to vote on the
and i think in part that was because last thursday he was performing for an audience of one, and that was the president of the united states. tonight as he s written this op-ed in the wall street journal, of course he is appealing to some of those moderate republicans who might be on the fence, in part because they are very much concerned as to whether or not he can be seen as a neutral ar bitter from the highest bench in this country, and justice stevens might be one of those people who prompted jeff flake, lisa murkowski and susan collins to have more pause. it is important to recall jeff flake said at the atlantic festival earlier this week in washington we cannot have that kind of behavior on the court, that the temperament judge kavanaugh displayed during that hearing, that that could not