santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote, consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulte
Yes [ cheers ] yeah woho running up and down that field looks tough. Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Hello, im Boris Sanchez with Brianna Keilar In Washington. We begin with a major breaking development in the is healhamas war. Two americans taken hostage by hamas nearly two weeks ago have been released according to a source familiar with the Negotiation Noose this is a mother and a daughter as we understand it, they were among at least 200 people who were kidnapped during hamass attacks on israel in which 1400 people were killed. We have cnns Alex Marquardt and mj lee with details on this. Alex, tell us what more you can about this release. Reporter well, a mother and daughter as you say, we understand from a source that i spoke with about the negotiations, that the mother is not in good health. So weve been told by both our sources and by hamas that this is a, quote, unquote, humanitarian release because presumably hamas does
consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulted to superstardom within that liberal imagination after being rejected by mitch mcconnell and the senate gop as a nominee to fill not john paul stevens seat but antonin scalia s spot on the supreme court. you are forgiven if this slip to your mind. mcconnells smoke and mirrors routine has a way of fogging up the past that was not more obvious then with merrick garland who went from our inheritors small seats conservative strain trist to woke liberal pin-up almost on a level with rbg herself. you may be startled to hear that back in 2016, it wasn t garlands left-wing bias that was the top of the town, but his rather staunch habit of backing the blue, rolling in
consensus nominee. donald trump has not put any consensus nominees on his list so far. so then we get to this wild scenario where if democrats take control of the senate and breath kavanaugh fails, you could easily see at that point, and again we re way out into maybe land here, you could see d democrats blocking a supreme court nominee all the way until the next presidential election. maybe land is always worth exploring. that was excellent. thank you so much. coming up next, president trump is launching a new attack on his own attorney general. this is what he says, quote, jeff sessions saying that he doesn t have an attorney general. why he describes sessions as mixed up and confused during the nomination process. we ll ask a reporter who interviewed him. and also she made headlines after this photo. remember this? capturing her giving the president s motorcade the bird. that woman is now running for office. she joins me live coming up. whi,
we will not surrender. we will not move. we will go forward. judge kavanaugh has been sitting on a preapproved list of right wing nominees for eight months now. i have reviewed his record and let me tell you, brett kavanaugh did not end up on this list because he is the consensus nominee. that s pretty much how that went. michael scherrer said groups on both sides prepared multimillion-dollar digital and television ad campaigns even before president trump s announcement that brett kavanaugh will be his nominee. the battle plans were in place and the arguments have been framed. what happens next is a no holds barred fight for public opinion and senate votes that history suggests the president is heavily favored to win. at least one organization, the women s march might have shot itself in the foot last night. a foxnews.com reporter grabbed a