That is what the separation of powers mean that is what checks and balances are for and that is what todays vote reflects. All too often the past two years republicans senators and blind obedience to this president have imposed his worst impulses but those public and senators who voted to buck the president and voted against this wall, to them i say thank you. Two senators to me, romney, collins thank you for standing up for the constitution. Thank you for showing sense and courage. These republican senators said plain and simple that President Trump was wrong and they voted against funding his wall by taking money from the military. The senators that did not vote with us should be ashamed, ashamed they gave cover to this president to trample our constitution and deal from the military. Can we get quiet down there, please . Thank you. But the bipartisan vote today suggests that perhaps my republican colleagues are beginning to rise to the occasion. Now, on the transcript. And the ensui
Court. Not always an edifying experience. It was a mean and ugly fight at times we know how it turned out. Judge kavanaugh, nowjustice kavanaugh, was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story in a booklength form . Guest carrie and i were both involved in the confirmation battle, working on the confirmation, covering it as journalists. We knew that we had a good story here, we knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down. And so we interviewed more than 100 people including the president and various other people at the white house, Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year. And when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting on after the dust has settled about lessons to learn from it, what were some of the things that happened behind the scenes, and were really
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Kavanaugh was narrowly confirm on a largely part line vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story and n book lange form . Carrie and i were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battles, we knew that we had a good story here. We knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down, and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president , and various other people at the white house, self Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year, and when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting of after the dust settled about lessons to learn, some things that happened behind the scene busy were glad we got to do it. I think for me in particular, having clerked for Justice Thomas, i saw the real replay of many of the events from the types of attacks going on before the confirmation got crazy to the allegations
Uranium enrichment. What can expect from the administration . We heard from secretary of state. Omp pao pompeo i would expect more tough talk this week but President Trump is disinclined to intervene militarily a broad. There was a lot of talk recently about pompeo beating the war drum. We have heard less about john bolton lately. President trump has been warning iran but at the same time saying it doesnt look good. I imagine we will hear him telling it iran to knock it off. Something to cut this short. In your National Journal piece at the end of last week, lots going on. Foreign policy, defense dominate the senate. On iran you talked about senators rand paul introducing in thee in terms of Iran National Defense Authorization act, that the senate will begin to take up this week. It is the defense spending bill that Congress Considers and it is supposed to get a vote, procedural vote this week. On the full house floor, it passed out of committee a month or so ago. What senators includi