might get kicked until after the election. what democrat is going to allow a nomination to come to the floor before the new senate is in. laura: i ve heard there s been resistance to kavanaugh s building up inside the white house and i ve been getting texts and emails from people saying what are you hearing? seems like there s some criticism of kavanaugh s record. even h mcconnell was concerned because kavanaugh had worked with george starr who just joined us in the previous segment and is part of the independent counsel in whitewater. that that was going to be difficult, also because he was staff secretary to bush 43 who didn t even support president trump. i think i ve got to say it s to president trump s credit that that didn t dissuade him. it didn t dissuade him. he sat right outside the oval office for bush 43 for five years. here s the tough thing about doing television with laura, she knows far more about you know far more about this than i do but i do no there was some r
i pulled some because as i looked at the nominee, this is a man, as you ve been mentioning, 13 years on the federal bench. what many people forget, he was part of the whitewater investigation. he wrote the kent starr report which had the articles of impeachment or at least suggested impeachment of president clinton. he worked with the bush administration. i expect and as i watched these hearings who may put me in mind of ted kennedy who dredged up robert bork s past history, as political history working for richard nixon. here s what he said. the man who fired archibald cox does not deserve to sit on the supreme court of the united states. robert bork s america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions. blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters. rogue police could break down citizens doors and midnight raids and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution.
he gets into the whole issue of how government needs to be accountable and transparent. separation of powers needs to be respected. it s an incredible record. almost 300 300 opinions. laura: he said, this is what stuck in my mind. it sounds kind of trite. i revere the constitution. like, everyone says they revere the constitution but full disclosure i have known brett for 27 years. he does revere the constitution. people were criticizing him over the last 72 hours because he was staff secretary, ran the paper flow for bush 43. bush 43 did not support this president, did not vote for this president. conservatives that he comes out of the bush administration. how can we trust him to be a scalia or a thomas or a gorsuch or a alito. what do you say to those who are still doubting brett kavanaugh tonight? you have known him a long time. he has dedicated his entire life
gearan and josh holmes. josh, when bush 43 was president you led team at rnc to help get john roberts and sam alito, given that the filibuster is no longer in existence, is there any way that trump s nominee will fail to get confirmed by the senate? well, i think the question itself, chris, gives us indication of how far we have come, how do we kill a nominee when we don t know who the nominee is yet. i mean, i think president trump could probably nominate lady justice herself and democrats would say that she s in there to try to overthrow roe v. wade. the filibuster is gone but razer-thin majority. one seat difference. they have a tactic to attack, senator susan collins and lisa murkowski but what they are ignoring red states, joe
capabilities to understand what north korea is doing. it doesn t profit the possibility of eliminating north korea s nuclear weapons to talk on a day-to-day basis they are doing this, they are not doing this and they are doing the other thing. there s nobody involved in this discussion with north korea in the administration who is overburdened, we see how the north koreans have behaved before. the president has been very clear e will not make the mistakes the prior administrations, we will pursue this and we will see what happens. that s, i think, what the next step in the discussions will be. chris: i want to get two final questions in in the time we have left, back when you worked for bush 43, you called kim s father a dictator and north korea a hellish nightmare and they responded in kind, one of my favorite lines of all time, they called you human scum and blood subbinger, you called it a badge of honor. here we can see you sitting at