. ? what loss during the kavanaugh controversy was the new york times 18 month investigation of president trump s finances. this morning the paper published the entire 14,000 word for a second time in a special supplement. new york city and state officials say they are examining the findings that trump and his family used dubious tax schemes back in the 1990s to increase the inheritance left to him by his parents. according to this report, trump and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents. records and interviews show, records indicate that trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. he also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns. sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
so the two major issues as our justice correspondent pete williams laid out for us a couple weeks back that might number front of brett kavanaugh and this new court that is the most conservative as we just noted in some eight decades, one is gamble versus the united states. second is gundy versus the united states. karen, let s start with gamble versus the united states. describe why this might be important to the everyday american. yoobviously you don t want t get tried for the same crime twice which makes the united states internationally where double jeopardy zadoesn t attac. i know that most people are saying with gorsuch and kavanaugh, because kennedy was the swing vote, that they were hoping that kavanaugh and
all eyes on the supreme court starting this coming week where associate justice brett kavanaugh will take the bench this week. he s now the trump administration s second supreme court nominee to be confirmed. the bitter confirmation battle may be over, but with 30 days, that s less than a month until the critical midterm elections, republicans and democrats are both hoping kavanaugh s confirmation will energize their bases. in kansas, last night president trump celebrated his newest justice while urging supporters to block a blue wave at the polls. the past few weeks every american has now seen the profound stakes in the upcoming election. you now see it. we have been energized. if democrats are willing to cause such destruction in the pursuit of power, just imagine the devastation they would cause if they ever obtain the power they so desperately want.
there s only ever been one justice that s been impeached and i think talking about it at this point isn t necessarily healing us and moving us forward. all right, democratic senator chris coons on a sunday dismissing the idea of impeaching kavanaugh. several on the house judiciary committee are calling to discuss the allegations against him if democrats win the midterms in november. lots of eyes on that. they will have the power to make it happen if they so choose. but some say the impeachment talk is a potential liability for democrats in the midterm, so most are treading lightly. should brett kavanaugh be impeached if democrats take control? i m much more focused on the here and now which is we have an election coming up. all right. senator hir hirona from hawaii. does this make sense to be
i m not 100% because, because right now what is driving women is roe v. wade. what is driving women right now is the idea that if kmi forward as a sexual assault survivor, and my case and i hold my i want to hold my person accountable, i m sitting in front of these two justices that have been accused much sexual assault. i think the supreme court and what has happened is going to stick with democrats. i think that it is going to be a charging point. because what we know now that is brett kavanaugh is going to be on the supreme court for the rest of my life and for our children s lives to come after. that is the difference because we are now living through a movement that was not there before with such force and size as well as so public and so personal for so many. short break. as brett kavanaugh takes a spot on the bench, some democrats are already using the i word. impeachment. how that might help and hurt at