Reached with them. Daniels was doing what many people view as a conventional form of celebrity extortion. She wanted to cash in on her story. But whats interesting is that donald trump was trying to kill false stories as well as stories that were allegedly true. There was a story involving a door man who said he had an illegitimate child. She wanted to kill that, too. Thats not strange for celebrities or politicians. Indeed, many members of congress have engaged in ndas throughout the years. So this is a standard part of politics and entertainment. Now, what they are showing the jury now is that she had this economic motive all along. But also her credibility is in tatters. The real question here is going to be how more sort of narrow the scope of the testimony will be. It is obviously going to be narrower. It is a Cross Examination when it comes to trump. They have a lot of material involving her own conduct, her own life. And you may see the prosecutors start to object as to the scop
seeing some pretty significant pushback from the white house on. what s your take? for this story, we went back and re-examined a lot of what the president has done in the past two years as he sought to control the investigation. we found out things he tried to do related to the michael cohen investigation. we found out things he did as far back as february of 2017, right after mike flynn got fired. we were trying to paint a portrait of what the president s efforts to control, to sort of direct the narrative had been. as we know, the president speaks at length about these investigations, goes on and on and complains about them. we know that he s being examined for his ties to russia. we know he s being examined for obstruction. so what did that obstruction really look like? that s what we tried to tackle. all right. and to the extent that you heard pete williams with us, what whitaker said to congress during his confirmation efforts.
but maybe not by brett kavanaugh, rather what he said was, quote sorry, what he said would, quote, make the most sense to him is that somebody else who looks exactly like brett kavanaugh might have done it and that brett kavanaugh is being unfairly blamed. it s kind of a weird argument but today that theory exploded online thanks to a man named ed wealen. he s quote, he s been involved in helping advise kavanaugh s confirmation efforts and he s close friends with both kavanaugh and leonard leo, the head of the federalist society, which is the head of the organization that basically chose trump s nominee list. today in a series of tweets ed wheelin floated a very detailed theory that yes, someone other than brett kavanaugh attempted to rape christine blasey ford when they were in high school. mr. wheelin even included
like brett kavanagh might have done it and brett kavanagh is being unfairly blamed. it s kind of a weird argument, but today that theory exploded online thanks to a man named ed wheel en, president of something called the ethics in public policy center, former clerk to the late justice antonin scalia, very well known in right wing legal circles. ed whee lan has been involved helping advise kavanagh s confirmation efforts and he s close friends with both kavanagh and leonard leo, the head of the federalist society which is the organization that basically chose trump s nominee list. today in a series of tweets, ed wheel an floated a very detailed theory that, yes, someone other than brett kavanagh attempted to rape christine blasey ford when they were in high school. mr. wheelan even included blueprints of a house he thinks the sexual assault could have occurred in. he went on to name the person he thinks might have done it. he posted a picture of him.
numbers are going up. gallup not a fly by night operation had him at 45. now he is 49% approval in a very polarized country. i don t know if you heard. we seem to be in. that s pretty significant. steve: no kidding. speaking of polarization. the president also hammering democrats yesterday telling republicans to go nuclear, mitch, if the democrats try to block his supreme court pick. listen. there will be 60 votes. it s the same things they have been saying about every republican nominee. we end up with that gridlock, i would say if you can, mitch, go nuclear. > brian: so what is judge gorsuch facing now? let s speak to former counts loor george w. bush ed gillespie almost the senator from virginia. he knows about the confirmation efforts for justice roberts and leith and joins us now to weigh in. ed, do you envy those who sheparshepherd the justice from meeting to meeting? it s a great experience, brian. and those meeting to meetings