Powerful conservatives including republican senator ted cruz of texas who has argued once on the bench he will disappoint the right. So our big question this hour, in a Selection Process that is growing more contentious by the day, whose advice will President Trump take on his Supreme Court pick . Msnbcs garrett headacaake is i great falls, montana. Pete williams is the justice correspondent for nbc news. Robert costa a political reporter for the Washington Post and at nbc news and msnbc political analyst and Caitlin Hueyburns is a political report for real clear politics. Thanks to everybody for being here. Garrett, start with you, that list of three, what do we know about it and do we know if there is a pecking order within the list of three, a favorite and more of a long shot . Its always impossible to tell with this sort of thing, steve, because its so much depends on the president s viewpoint at the moment and the person lobbying him most directly at the time. I can tell you we ex
To blame for this young shutdown. 47 say trump deserves most of the blame. 33 blame the democrats. 7 blame the remaining republicans in congress. Another poll finding another 43 blaming trump, and those bad vibes for the shutdown theyre spreading and contimeinating trumps overall approval with 56 disapproval. Now, that is bad. You hear these numbers a lot in politics and its easy for them to kind of, like, blend together to serve a point. But stop and think about it like this. The democrats just won the midterms by a larger margin, 8 , than the national margin for other widely celebrated waves like the republicans 1994 revolution which made Newt Gingrich speaker. 8 . This new approval polls show trump under water, though, by 17 tonight. That is way worse than that midterm stomping which as we just showed was itself a historic margin. Donald trump is dealing with this by, well, no, by not dealing with it. He offered several statements and tweets today that basically claimed the shutdown
Strategy of telling his nonwhite opponents to go back to their birth places, but this morning the president began his weekend by unloading on the majorityblack middle class Baltimore District led by Elijah Cummings, calling the 7th district the most dangerous, dangerous, rat and rodent infested mess. In the midst of it all, calling cummings a bully. This week cummings led the House Oversight Committee Vote to subpoena sensitive white house communications, this after cummings led the grilling of trumps acting Homeland Security head over conditions facing detained migrants on our southern border. But todays attack marked the latest insistence in which this president failed to do his homework and made racialized assumptions about a political opponent again, con flating black and brown, and calling maryland as a place where, quote, no human being wants to live there. Joining me now, felipe rays, and susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. Susan, let me go to yo
David and explained about iran before takeoff. Our own david spunt is at the white house. Good morning, laura. The president held a long q a on the lawn of the white house, for about 25 minutes or so he talked on several different topics. Weve got word from the white house that the president is at camp david. He will be meeting with advisors this weekend to talk about that iran policy. Now, speaking about that iran policy, the president called off iranian air strikes in spite of increased pressure and increased tensions with tehran. They shot down an unmanned drone. He received intelligence that 150 people would be killed and he said yesterday killing 150 people for iran shooting down an unmanned drone did not make sense. I asked him if hed meet with irans leadership up to the ayatollah, he said its important to have dialog, that its important to do. So, listen to what the president said about meeting with iranian leadership. Very important to me so well start all over. We could have a
Donald trump is not inaugurated a second time on the next inauguration day. If a democrat is inaugurated on the next inauguration day. Why that will be the worst day in Donald Trumps life. The things that donald trump now has stacked up that can fall on him, the day he is no longer president. Thats what well considerate the end of this hour. And there are a bunch of those things now. But today, william barr came into his second tour of duty as a Republican Attorney general with a relatively solid reputation in the Legal Community specially the republican Legal Community in washington, d. C. The image packagers of william barr were telling the world that they would now see a more scholarly approach to the work of the attorney general than we saw under one of the worst and least qualified attorneys general in history, Jeff Sessions. But as of tonight, william barr is seeming at least as trumpian as Jeff Sessions if not more so. And the reviews from legal scholars are condemning. Professo