again about the importance of securing the border. an issue of border security, an issue of his own political insecurity when right-wingers, he backs off and dissembled in front of us, the depth of dysfunction i have never seen in washington. partial government shutdown before christmas, a quarter of the federal government is shut down. donald trump tweeting about the situation at the border writing 115 mile long contract for another section of the wall in texas, building and renovating many miles of wall, some complete. democrats must end shutdown and finish funding, billions of dollars in lives will be saved and we are back with our panel. eli, kelly jane and tom. here we are. i think primarily, senator
what you ve described, these two different universes has only been accelerated. you think the press is kpal baiting the feeling of two universes? i think the press in some way is trapped because it s a perfectly legitimate argument to say this president has misled, dissembled, outright lied, and we have to call him to that. but what s happened is it s fed the view on the other side of the aisle that, of course they re critical of trump because it s all fake news because they don t like what it s doing. has cnn taken a side in this kavanaugh debate? i think if you take the overall coverage night after night and you said, well, what have i heard that balances out sure. i want to be clear. it may be that the facts justify that, but i can see how you can look anymore than you can look at fox & friends and decide it s anything more than state media. in cnn s case it s not at that level at all, but there is an
warning flags of a captured agency. dancing to special interest tunes, and rampaging through precedent and principle to get there. this will be a disaster for the court, and i believe cavanaugh will contribute to that disaster. his partisan screed yesterday was telling. as to yesterday, let me be frank. i believe dr. ford. i may be wrong, but i believed her. and i believe kavanaugh dodged and dissembled, ranted and raved, filibustered and prevarica prevaricated. i did not find him credible.
should get through. i think that there is enough question about his having dissembled before the congress when he was confirmed for his current circuit court seat, and that he may have dissembled in this hearing, as well. we have evidence that he has said, i didn t have conversations, that we now know he did have. we know that his views are extreme. he s been criticized by his colleagues on his own court, from both the left and the right, for having ignored facts, for taking on issues that weren t raised by the parties but served his purpose in trying to reach a particular outcome. he has been criticized for ignoring precedent. i think that there s enough reasons to think that he is not a neutral arbiter of cases, that would be dangerous in the supreme court. without a supreme court to oversee everything that is
that he may have dissembled in this hearing, as well. we have evidence that he has said, i didn t have conversations, that we now know he did have. we know that his views are extreme. he s been criticized by his colleagues on his own court, from both the left and the right, for having ignored facts, for taking on issues that weren t raised by the parties but served his purpose in trying to reach a particular outcome. he has been criticized for ignoring precedent. i think that there s enough reasons to think that he is not a neutral arbiter of cases, that would be dangerous in the supreme court. without a supreme court to oversee everything that is neutral and doesn t have a bias to act, i think we are in big trouble. i am hoping that justice will be done and that he will not become a justice. that is my fervent hope.