to our democratic colleagues want to spend less time voting on district judges they should take it up with the democratic leader. who is forcing us to take cloture votes. we ve taken them on 81 district judge nominees. by this point in president obama s presidency we had taken one. one cloture vote on a district judge nominee. let me say that again. as of this morning, we have taken cloture votes on 81 district judges. by this point in president obama s presidency, we had taken one. one cloture vote on a district
the part of donald trump. it was jesse helms v. harvey gant in 1990. it was worse than that. the fact that it was successful suggests that even as we come out of this mid-term with mixed government, that the intensity of our exchange will increase. what do you think? do you think it will be more, shall we say, sharp? i imagine it would be. it would be outside the political arena if it had gone a different way. as long as we are engaging in politics. the boring stuff. legislation. cloture votes. the stuff in washington. then we re in a better place. in 2006, republicans lost 31 seats and it was a cataclysmic
of his presidency as any presidency in history. that s phenomenal. and also attributed to the effort of mitch mcconnell, who has said, i m going to keep prioritizing the judges. over those that have to wait for further cloture votes. i ll continue working on the judges. despite all the noise and other stuff that is coverage around this administration, one of this president s legacies will be the way he has reshaped the courts. it s one thing to do the federal bench below the supreme court, but it s the other thing to get the money seat on the highest court in the land. that s true, dana. but these circuit judges will be in position for future they will. supreme court openings, too. and this is mcconnell, by the way, who was so into this process and getting it through quickly, who would not allow a vote. and you know what i m going to say, on merrick garland. and held it up forever. and so, you know, that played into all of this. i think mcconnell probably
administration that would be as politically successful and potent a moment as this one would be for the president. let s go to jeff zeleny, our white house correspondent. jeff, there are a lot of smiles over there at the white house right now. wolf, there s no question, and the president, i m told, was watching the vote right there on the senate floor just a few moments ago like everyone else. most cloture votes are not as dramatic, but the president is in the residence of the white house this hour watching all this unfold. the white house is still confident of the confirmation of brett kavanaugh, but not certain, of course, just like everyone else, they do not know how senator susan collins is going to vote this afternoon. the president at this point is largely a bystander in one of the very central processes here. but speaking with aides and advisers to this president and watching him as he s been out at campaign rallies throughout the week, he intends to make this an issue eithe
so many bills sitting there is the democrats are delaying anything. if you look at the cloture votes and the total number were 24, they had 100. they have delayed everything and he said if democrats want to stop everything we ll stay in august. bill: he fires the first shot and people like bill nelson on the democratic side say have you the majority and control. how do we understand that, sir? we had passed 12 appropriation bills to fund the government and the democrats vote to block, not against the bill but for them to even to come up to be debate. it was the democrat schumer who